Tteokkuk in Seollal

The kids insisted that we ate tteokkuk or rice-cake-soup during Seollal since they wanted to make sure that their age is added one year more...^^ as a proof of their growing up.^^

So, their Mom finally made the tteokkuk at home. We're lucky to have the tteok as a gift..and the mandu (dumplings) from our friend as well...as a present, too.^^

Yup, we're celebrating Seollal completely since we officially ate the rice-cake-soup, too.

Freya said" yes, I'm now...9 years old"

IMLEK...새해복 많이 받으세요.

Just Food

Post-movie-watching dinner with the kids. Udong+Albab+Noodles.

Home-made brownies with cheese on top.

A slice of brownies....home-made edition.

100-meter from home.,,,Bapuri, a restaurant where we usually have our gimbab..김밥, cheese rapukki 치즈라뿍이 and other Korean food.

and...백짬뿡  or white champung...

Layouts of Fun

Lost in LINE World......!!!

Savor the Delights of Food...!!!

 Irresistibly Charming...!!!

Irresistibly Cute Giraffe...!!!

Magically Enchanting...!!!

Eyra and Freya...soaked themselves in these endless charms of fun around them.

Food Time @ Food Capital

It's dinnertime and we decided NOT to have our meal inside the themepark zone since it's surely expensive! Instead, we just walked out of the park....50.meters.away from.the entrance!!

..and we ended up.being.in.the.food.capital.

Had we known that there'd be this much, we'd have ordered 2 meals^^

Anyway...we had a great diner. Eyra ordered her all-time favorite: udong. Just look at the huge bowl she had to dig into.

As for her sister, 알밥 albab aka mixed rice with fish eggs. She's also.into this food.

As for me? I was hooked to savour the soybean sprout soup or kongnamulgukbab  (콩나물국밥) in Korean.

The perk of having the meal outside the theme park was that....we could buy this for only 5,000 won or $4.2. It would've cost us 8,000 won or $7++ inside the park.

This Japanese-style noodles cost 5,500 won. Pretty decent considering the vicinity of this huge complex.

So...there you go....we had our meals lightly.

I.SEOUL.WINTER....+

Mama, ...what are you....doing, thinking of, staring at? *just posing, Dear.^^

A deserted playground after a heavy snowfall. It's eerily stunning...yet so darn.cold.to.the.bone!

..so we warmed ourselves up...

..by having our dinner at the nearest food court in the area. What does this SMILE mean? What's she implying by...smiling this way??????

@H@ GOTCHA. She just slurped...the huge plate to herself.

...ok. stop staring at the phone and let's go home. It's holiday, alright. But, still you can't stay up late^^!!!

Dinner Time

Hari ini....makan malam dengan menu rumahan ala Korea. It's a simple homemade menu with available ingredients at home.

삶은 콩나물, 참기름으로 볶은 두부, 불고기...

And surely it wouldn't be complete without kimchi....oh it's the only kimchi we had left in the fridge. That's why I ate it sloooooowwwwly^^

...plus nasinya pun...yg putih dan lengket pulen....

Hmmm...완벽한 겨울밤의 저녁이었다. A perfect dinner at home.

Dinner @ Gwangjang Market

 It's Xmas Eve and...people thronged to the street...well...

We're,  too. But...it's unintentional...since we're having some chores downtown...

...and dinnertime knocked our tummy out^^

...and we happened to be at Jeongno where this market seemed to be waving at us^^

Without further ado...we went in...

....suddenly amazed at the sight and sound...of this warm market in winter.

...we spotted this kind ajumma serving bibimbap...my favorite food!

...in 5 minutes...it's ready!

 ..yup...mixed vegetables and rice with spicy chilli sauce...

We also ordered 잔치국수 [janchi guksu] or...literally translated into 'banquet noodle'

...the colorful sense of bibimbap....eaten raw and fresh at the market really overwhelmed me.

....indeed it soothed the senses. 

I recommend. ..only go there at night to see a different ambience of Korea's traditional market.!!!!!

Dinner....wow...

보글보글 순두부찌개.^^

맛있어 보이네^^♡

Homemade sundubujigae...

And kimchiiiii^^

Hiker's Diner

We came full circle...started our hike at Meokgol and finished at Meokgol station...but...since we couldn't find any familiar dishes we could eat...we decided to go to Bonghwasan station!!!

...and ended up eating at our regularly visited restaurant: Misoya.

We had spicy seafood bento...for Mom. Fish katsu for Eyra...

And alvab jeongsik for me. Udong included so Freya didn't need to order any.

After 2.5 hours of walking up and down the hills....mountain....we dug our diner out...^^

^^it's hikers' diner.