So I forgot to post some things. Namely, food, but a few other things as well.
Like this amazing cafe I only got to go to twice.
With cute rooms to sit in.
And the BEST popbingsu.
Which brings us back to the main topic of food. Popbingsu is sweetened condensed milk ice flakes, red bean paste, fruit chunks, tokk pieces (sweet rice cakes that taste like marshmellows), frozen yogurt, and cereal. Of course, it is only essentially the ice flakes and whatever you top it with that qualifies as "bingsu," (i.e. mango bingsu) but the classic and original is popbingsu, aka, ice flakes and red bean paste (with fruit, etc).
So delicious. So fresh. And perfect for summer.
(A different popbingsu from an on-campus cafe)
Popbingsu is the best, and I definitely miss it. I need to invest in an ice shaver. I wonder still has the one I gave her for her 13th birthday?
Speaking of birthdays...
Cake!
We're too poor and lazy most of the time to go buy a ParisBaguette (famous bakery) fancy cake for a birthday, so we just get creative.
Ice cream with waffle-crackers, oreos, and pocky (Japanese name). Yum!
But we don't just eat dessert in Korea. There's also late night snack foods like jjimdok (which I already mentioned) and...
KFC
And I can't believe I haven't gotten to explaining this--Korean Fried Chicken. The only KFC I'll eat. Okay, so it's not called that (Although there are many Kentucky kind in Korea, too.), but the many kinds of fried chicken in are quite delicious--it's just somehow better than it is here in the states. (At least in the North. I'm sure that there are many delicious fried chicken places that are not fast food restaurants in the South.)
Another must-see Korean food:
Samgalpsal
aka Korean BBQ
Pork "grilled" and put with chili paste and whatever else wrapped in lettuce.
And for something not quite so nice--
Kimchi pizza toast.
I already posted about Korean-Italian, but this really takes the kimchi.
Now that I'm home, I can't tell you how good it is to eat non-sweet or kimchi flavored (or both) pizza again.
Of course, not that there wasn't good pizza in Korea.
There was fancy Korean-Italian restaurant pizza. This one's honey cheese.
And regular pizzeria pizza-- this is another cheese and honey. This time to go on top of Cheonmaji! (The mountain or "big hill" since some don't consider it mountainous enough) Which I now realize I never posted about. Cheonmaji is next.
Back to the food.
My friends Shan Shan (Coco) and Jane fixed us some delicious authentic Chinese food, too.
No really. It was some of the best food all semester.
Chinese food is more palatable to the Western taste buds than Korean for sure. Didn't hurt that Jane was a great cook, either (she even fixed a dish she had learned from a French cook! --which I'm guessing was probably not Chinese.)
But you know, it would be a shame to fail to mention another coffee shop, too, since they are EVERYWHERE in Korea. You can (and often do) spend more on a coffee than you might on a meal.
This is Grace Coffee shop in Pohang. What a view!
And of course, some tea samples at the supermarket. Careful not to drink the flower at the bottom.
And while we're talking about drinks--mmmm yummy banana milk!
Koreans love their milk. (Don't we all?!)
Well I guess that's it. Next should probably something about Cheonmaji and eventually I WILL get to the end of the semester trips to Busan and Seoul...
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