Here's some of the glorious food that I have eaten lately and just neglected to post about. Did I mention that I LOVE food! This was a small part of the lunch that I had with my Korean friend's family. It is a traditional Korean meal that includes a ton of "banchan" or side dishes. There was boiled egg, soybean paste stew, bulgogi (seasoned beef), grilled fish, many vegetables and different kinds of noodles and fried, stir fried, and grilled things. There was soooooo much food! We also had this delicious tea after the meal. It was AMAZING! My badminton club at school is almost definitely better than most badminton clubs because when we get bored or feel lazy, we order in and make food! Some of the teachers in the club made bibim guksu or spicy mixed noodles. That's in the small white bowls. We also ordered in pizza with fries and spaghetti as well as pig's foot. The pig's foot was extremely delicious and not too chewy. It was perfect! The pizza was a shrimp pizza and it also had some cream cheese and sweet potato on it. It was quite delicious even though the description doesn't quite sound delicious (trust me it was!). This was such a good way to spend an afternoon! This last weekend, My friend and I went out to go see a park and we stumbled upon this small art street where all of the shops are inside of shipping containers! We were also hungry so we were looking for food and at the end of this street right across from the park was a busy restaurant inside another shipping container. We thought that that would be a nice place to stop and eat. So we did. And it was. I got a shrimp noodle soup that had shrimp, noodles, and boiled egg mixed in with chopped onions. I also got sparkling water (my love!). As per usual with this style of restaurant where it is more cafeteria style (you order at the counter and get your buzzer and then wait for them to call that your food is ready) the banchan (side dishes) were self serve. There was kimchi and another dish that I'm not sure what it was but it tasted good! Overall, this place was really nice and really delicious. This is one of my Korean food loves! Pat bingsu! This is basically shaved ice on crack! If you think of shaved ice, many people think of snow cones and the crunchy ice with neon syrups. Bingsu is more similar to Hawaiian shaved ice. The ice is actually shaved so that it is extremely thin and melts almost immediately in your mouth. There are also a million topping options for bingsu. This bingsu is pat bingsu because it has pat (pronouced pot) or sweet red beans in it. This bingsu in particular came from a bubble tea shop (Gong Cha) that I LOVE so it had the tapioca pearls in it as well as some shaved almonds and soybean powder and a slightly sweet sauce on top. This was definitely big enough to share so I'm glad I was with my friend to eat it! It was delicious and a wonderful decision on such a hot day! It has been cherry blossom season for a couple of weeks and so there are many different cherry blossom products. Starbucks has cherry blossom flavored and themed drinks and some stores have cherry blossom themed items as well. I saw this soda in the convenience store and thought that I had to at least try it. This is definitely something that I cannot get back home. So I bought it and tried it and didn't hate it. It kind of tasted like a mix between cherry, rose, and strawberry. It was carbonated so that was nice. Overall the taste was okay but I probably won't buy it again. This drink has a bit of a story to it. I went out walking to go to my favorite bubble tea shop near my apartment (Gong Cha). It's about a 15-20 minute walk and it was really hot so I was looking forward to my nice cool Gong Cha bubble tea. When I got to where it was, it was not there. The shop was closed! There was not another Gong Cha nearby so I had to sadly wander for a bit trying to find an alternative. I eventually ended up at Cafe Bene and splurged a little. At Gong Cha, I would usually spend about 4,000 Won or $3.50 on a good sized drink. I bought this fancy schmancy drink with mango sorbet and chunks (because I thought it would look pretty and taste really good and it did) for about 7,000 Won or $6.50. That was an expensive drink but I felt that I deserved it particularly after having walked all the way to the Gong Cha that no longer exists. This was my free tea from finishing the stamp tour at the street museum with my Korean friend's aunt! It was delicious! We also had this amazingly light, fluffy, and creamy cheesecake that this cafe makes in house every day. It was wonderful!
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