International Food Festival (part 2): The FOOD

African Food <Checked> you got it. Although I am a vegetarian, the festival was like heaven since I still could eat lots and lots and endless arrays of food from all over the world--literally. Some African food from several countries were specially prepared by students from the Africa Continent.

* I love the colors. In fact, I kinda enjoyed their rice. 

Being an Asian, I love trying out other Asian countries' specialties. This is a Cambodian, wait..Myanmar...wait..The Philippines ...wait...Thai...oh well....I am sure that those countries have similarities of using 'pineapple' to be one of the ingredients in making fried rice. and yes..this is pineapple rice.

hmmmm...I'd love to have this food once again...and again...and again...

Then I continued my journey into...oh no..I should've remembered in which part of the world I was in. 

Okay..the salad was good...and I love the potato tots.  

European friends prepared cake and this was splendid. ...

again..I should've asked to what specific country this cake derived from.

*Oh, I must've been busy holding my plate full of food while taking pictures of the stalls and booths.

Simply oblivious of the fact that I needed to jot down there they come from. 

Then, off we went to Central Asia...and oh, Kazakhstan food was another thing worth-trying for. and..wait...I thought I saw some "resoles" here. I thought that these were Indonesian food.... and..yes..I was right. It turned out that Kazakhstan and Indonesian friends united themselves to present their food at the same table and group. 

Oh, this is the Ethiopian Coffee I was talking about at my other entry.

A Dinner with Ilya's Parents

I've been wanting to post this entry for quite some time since I did enjoy the time when the parents of my  pal right here in Korea invited me to have dinner with them. So, it was Ilya's parents' special visit to Korea that made it even more meaningful. Ilya--my friend and kind-of-my-younger-brother from Kazakhstan  --had been so busy the week his parents visited him in Korea last December (2011).

 We had this special dinner at a Chinese restaurant just around the block near our campus.
I remembered vividly that it was a chilly and windy night of December. But, the warmth of the dinner and especially Ilya's parents and auntie made it worthwhile for me to remember the occasion.
One thing I treasured: they even ordered just a special food for me since they'd known (thanks to Ilya) that I happened to be a vegetarian.
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Some of our friends were also invited in the dinner: Aigerim, Yelena, Aizhan (three of them from Kazakhstan), and Taekcho (from China).
The best part: it was such a wonderful occasion since it was (surprise...surprise) a customary (is it?) in Kazakhstan to bring along some present to their guests. Wow what a treat.









I mean...I got this whole bunch of candies and fruits from Kazakhstan...that I would not have tasted, had I not known these friends of mine. Amazing, right?
(more pictures and stories of these colorful candies later on^^ my other entry).

Another thing that I want to keep in mind was the fact that both of Ilya's parents did invite us to their homeland should we have a chance of going there. Why not. It would be such a great trip should I be able to realize this dream of going to Ilya's country--someday. Fingers crossed? ^^. Some say dreams do come true, right?

some of the unthinkable pictures on candies

well, for me, to be frank.....
opening up a box of candies or chocolates that surely come from other countries indeed gave me a jittery of excitement of what it has to offer or what it stores inside the box.

like what happened this time.
these candies and chocolates were freshly plucked out of the presents that Ilya's parents gave me.
Wow....could never believe it myself.
I mean...just look at the pairing wrappings that surely made to outlandish the sheer difference of excitement of just biting these simple looking chocolate-wrapped wafers. Yes, mostly they were wafers but--with the slight twitch of chocolate as the condiments.....
....the wafers turned to be one of the yummiest candies I've ever tasted.

They look so cool or too nice to open up and eat^^