Monday, May 25, 2015

2015.5.22 [Food] Ice cream sweet red bean bread

In Yangjae subway station, there is popular bakery, the name is "Yeon-In DanPatPang" in Korean. With translating into English, it is "Lover's sweet red bean bread".
The sweet red bean is popular ingredient of bread and cake in Asian country.
The unique item of this bakery is "ice cream sweet red bean bread". ice cream is inside the bread.





white thing is ice cream and dark thing is sweet red bean.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

2015.5.17 [Cooking] Toenjang-chigae (=Soy bean paste pot stew)

This is for breakfast on Sunday.
All of dishes are cooked by my wife. she got talent for cooking.
Toenjang-chigae is Korean traditional stew. It is very good for health. Its main ingredient is bean paste called toenjang. It is aged by Korean style. the period is quite long from a year to several years. boiling water with toenjang, add tofu and vegetables in the pot.
It is simple.

When I was young, I did not eat this stew. Its smell is not good for me. If you meet this first time, you will also worry to eat because of smell.
However if you try and eat it continuously. you can find real taste of this.

today's breakfast

main dish, toenjang-chigae


Kimchi and sliced vegetables preserved in soy sauce 

hobak-jeon, Tubu-jeon
(young pumpkin and tofu)

egg roll

boiled rice and cereals

healthy juice with apple, carrot and onion

lettuce in the terrace in my house.

2015.5.16 [Cooking] Kimchi Bokkum Bab (Mixed rice with Kimchi)

This is simple dish of our family.

Mixed rice with Kimchi. It tastes very good for me and easy to cook.
when you visit Korean restaurant, try and enjoy it.

this is cooked by my wife. 

2015.5.17 [Place] Shinsegae Premium Outlet in Yeoju

On Sunday, my wife and I visited Yeoju for visiting the outlet.
It is 60 kilometers far from my house. It took one hour by car.
It was first visit for me. That place quite big, so we took around more than two hours.
Many global fashion brand shop opened with 30~50% discount. so my wife and I bought some clothes.




I drive to Yeoju


weather is so good for walking.






I like churros. these days, STREET CHURROS catches on with Korean.



2015.5.20 [Restaurant] VIPS, Korean family restaurant

Today is my birthday. in my case, I use my birthday in lunar calendar. My birthday is 5 days before Buddha's Birthday in Korea. every 8th April in lunar calendar is Buddha's Birthday in Korea. It is holiday like Christmas.

My wife and I visited steak house, 'VIPS' in Pankyo. Because we could receive 50% discount using KT membership card.
There is salad bar in VIPS. so we could eat everything as we need. salmon. chicken. vegetables, tomato, cheese, oil/tomato/cream pasta, pizza, fruits, dessert, coffee, tea, ice cream, beverage. ...

we ordered VIPS sampler, which has rib streak, beef steak, shrimp, and french fries.
If we order this steak menu, we can use salad bar and eat with no additional charge.

For 2 person, all of dinner charge was just 40,000 won(=about $40)

This restaurant is managed by large company, CJ. It can be easily found in the downtown in Seoul, Korea.


one of famous restaurant in Korea, VIPS. 

for kids.


scenery of outside. here is Pankyo.

my family got a good table for dinner.

salad bar

it looks very delicious.

dessert corner

first dish

second dish

cream pasta

main dish (for 2 person)

we ordered mojito. wife and I love this.

Taste score : ★★★☆☆


Saturday, May 16, 2015

2015.5.16 [Place] Pankyo IT valley in Bundang

My family lives in Sunae-dong, Budang-gu, Seoungnam-si, Kyeonggi-do, Korea.
the relation of region is dong < gu < si < do
'do' is province, 'si' is city, and 'gu' is division of city, and 'dong' is town.

Near my house, there is Pankyo IT valley. Big IT and game companies and start up companies are there. Today,  there is an event in NHN entertainment company, that is weekend market. My wife and I bought some snack, cookie and macaroon.

My family visited Starbucks and took a rest with cafe-latte and yogurt.
I read 'Levels of Life' by Julian Barnes, and my wife read 'Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World' by Lynne Martin.

we! famly

Korean snack


booths of weekend market

one of my favorite food, macaroon.

This is macaroon ice cream. fantastic! I really love it.

my wife and I bought these.



Here is Pankyo IT valley.

cafe-latte and yogurt in Starbucks

I read 'Levels of Life' written by Julian Barnes.


2015.5.16 [Cooking] Kochujang-chigae (tuna spicy vegetable stew)

Today is Saturday. My wife cooks Kochujang-chigae (=tuna spicy vegetable stew) for breakfast. This is quite easy to cook and taste is very good with rice.
Her recipe is simple. Try to cook and feel the Korean taste.

Ingredient : Potato, young pumpkin, onion, can tuna, kochujang(thick soypaste mixed with red peppers), soy sauce.

Potato in the cookpot
add water and boil

young pumpkin

after boiling water with potato, put in pumpkin 

onion is good for ingredient of this soup

prepare tuna

this is Korean traditional sauce, 'kochujang'
(thick soypaste mixed with red peppers)

add 1 spoon of kochujang

stir with a spoon

one spoon of soy sauce

smell is good

after all of ingredient is boiled, add tuna

it's done.

 Side dish : tofu-jeon pumpkin-jeon
prepare tofu and pumpkin

add little wheat flour to absorb the egg

this is egg and make tofu and pumpkin wet

base on little oil, cook in the pan

this is today breakfast

Kochujang-chigae

tofu-jeon, pumpkin-jeon, and egg roll