Let's have Some Lunch

Lunch, dinner...whenever ..whichever...Bapuri family restaurant is just around the block.

And there are some indispensable menu whenever we go there.

Right, Freya?^^

It's veggie gimbab or sometimes shrimp gimbab. 

Of course, with ham excluded on purpose.^^ 

The colorful combination of ingredients that make up and give meaning to the word 'gimbab' really sums up how it does taste.

Then, chijjeu rapukki (cheese on top of ramyeon and ttteokpukki 'rice cakes') with its spicy gochujang 'chili powder' sauce gives an unforgiving taste in the sense that we're hooked on this particular food.^^

Then..udon or udong with its crispy tofu-like crackers on top of it.

We do love having each of them for either lunch or dinner...well...twice a week, maybe.^^

죠스 ...Jaws

Nope...it's not Spielberg's movie:-) For most Koreans, jaws or in Hangeul 죠스 is a franchise restaurant specializing in tteokpukki 떡볶이 -one of Korea's snack made of sticky rice served along with the spicy gochujang /고추장/chili powder paste. Again..I am not good at describing food.....but boy..this 죠스/Jaws' snack is once or twice a week getaway to dine for. ^^

I mean..it's delicious...especially the twikim 튀김 or tempura or gorengan...ala Korea ..Korean style tempura....that goes along with the tteokpukki....^^

hmm....it's one to dive for. ^^

So, for anyone longing or trying to dip into Korean-street-food but nicely served in a restaurant-like atmosphere...why not try out at one of these Jaws/죠스 chain store across the country.

*we're happy to have one near our home..^^

Jaws Time & ....

Jaws Tteokkpukki (죠스떡뽁이) is a brand name for a franchise restaurant specializing in tteokpukki or rice-cake snack...and other gorengan or tempura or 튀김 a la Korea. 

The tteokpukki was so hot that well...Eyra found it irresistibly ..relentlessly torturing for the kids.^^ but..so much so...we keep coming back..:) 

They love the ojingo or fried squid...oh....and I happen to be a vegetarian. So, I've been always their guardian angel *chuckle* who accompanies them whenever they eat something like this. 

Gosh..all of my girls lovveeeeeee this jaws-time:)..but for me..sure..I could, too..though not so much into it like they are:) 

Yippiee...ice cream time....now I can enjoy and pamper myself with this...

but then again...they chose the flavor of their dream...and not mine:(

ㅋㅋㅋ once again..I could only see them having a great time... 

and...at home..they're also having a blast..with their tiger-dolls....even when they're having dinner. 

*This has been our weekend's lunch-snack-dinner time.

Kyunghee University Surrounding Area (part 2)

Feeling a bit hungry, we ate the bungo ppang we brought while looking for some place to eat. Then, we found this nicely arranged red-looking restaurant that mostly sold tteokpukki. Just like what we wanted. The tteokpukki restaurant was named Nanumi (나누미). Judging from the interior of the restaurant and the posted pictures on the wall, the restaurant was once featured on SBS television. I think it is one of the things that made it famous or was it the other way around......that after being featured on SBS, this particular tteokpukki restaurant became famous. One thing for sure....it did taste different from any tteokpukki that I tried anywhere. It was so soft that I could just chew it lightly...it kinda melted in the first bite. Not like other tteoppukki, I guess it was the reason as to why it is famous. Oh They had gorengan or tempura as well. I tried cassava and kimbab tempura. However, the downside was that it was sooooooo terribly spicy!!!!!! *chuckles*...and yet I think I'd love to go there again.