Ada Rambutan!!!

Ya...pastilah langsung huiijoo ni mata begichu liat rambutan!!! Winter winter di Korea kog nemu RAMBUTAN!!!

겨울인데 이러한 열대과일인 람부단을 보고나니...

참...신기하더라. 몇개 먹었당. ENAAAK.

It's a good thing that the buffet offered lots of varieties for a vegetarian like me^-^

Boy...oh boy...it's so...deliriously tempting.

Black risotto...넘 맛있더라.

Kentang gorengnya jg not bad~lah.

쫄면탓에...입이 불을 탄것 같았다.!!!

Great...I made some bibimbap of my own.

....penutup hidangannnya...sangat yummy.

....not to mention. . .4가지의 맛 아이스크림도

 있어서...완벽한 dinner이었다.

Mangga, Mango.....Mango

we're on our way back home after Friday prayer...when we stumbled upon these mangoes. OMG..I thought mangoes are over or out of season..since now..the rambutan season takes over. 

But, since it is out of season, it is a bit expensive, for the best quality, 1 kg costs about 10,000 rupiah...but..we did not buy that since we got a great deal of having 3 kg of mangoes for 20,000 (2,000 Won) only.!!! 

This is the whole view of what what the mango street vendor may look like. 

I would love to enjoy eating mango while we stay in Indonesia.

Jejudo Group Meets Again @ Ashley, Gangnam

So, after more than a month or so, wait....after more than a year...!!! because the last time we met was on December 2012. Well, of course most of us were still curious of what we've been doing. 

Btw, we were the Korea Brand Communicator group who went to Jejudo together last year.

We hang out a lot and since we did not meet for quite sometime, we decided to give it a go again this time.

After a looong over-due talk via Kakao Talk about where to go: we finally decided to go to Ashley, dubbed to be American Buffet Restaurant in Seoul. 

Lee Byeong-hyeon, Hwang Ji-sang, Parvina, Lee Chae-yeon, Heekyung, Jung Yu-jeong, and me...^^

Well, we met at Sinnohyeon station at about 5 pm with some drama from me since I took the wrong exit..(gosh..a 10-minute walk in the midst of the cold)

But...it all paid up....after I had a perfect dinner (well, at least to my vegetarian standard)^^

First, how could I not be so excited when what I encountered was rambutan!! yes..yes..yes rambutan. This has been one of my wish to eat rambutan in Korea. Well, being an Indonesian in Korea, having a tropical fruit is like a privilege in itself. So, upon finding this fruit, I just grabbed three for my appetizer. 

And..yes..pineapple.

Being a vegetarian, the Ashley buffet provided me with lots of vegetables and salad and 4 different types of rice that I could simply combine into my favorite edible dinner.^^

To top it off, the cheese cake and the brownies and of course the fruit salad were all my favorite.

I think this was a worth-it dinner.

Wanna go there again sometime? You Bet.

Thanks my friends for --finally--decided to have dinner there.

We could've asked someone else to take our picture, but as usual, we just make a selca for ourselves. The one having the longest hand did the job of taking the picture. Lee Byung-hyeon did it this time. He's cute;) 

This was another example of group selca (Self-camera) we took after getting out of Ashley with full stomach. Well, Hwang Ji-sang did it this time and that's why he's the one's with full frontal face on the camera. As the rest of us...we were just supporting roles. 

Another one we took. Wait..I think this picture's the same with the one I already uploaded at the start of this entry. Oh, swell....Ok, I'll comment on the wines. See the wines? Well, in Ashely all-you-can drink wines are served to the guests' heart's content. 

The photo-shopped + edited + brightened version of earlier picture of us.

Let me comment on something else: Full Dinner Buffet could indeed make people full and happy. 

But..I was wrong about being full. I was surprised to find that...my Korean friends continued their meeting to have the 2nd dinner!!! What? Well, it's the 2nd course for them. It's a kind of culture right here in Korea to have another small dinner, drinks, snacks, coffee at coffee shops even after big and sumptuous dinner.

Well, I left them early and did not join them....

Just got a picture from Kakao-Talk that they HAD this. ^^

what a wonderful and happy night.

See you again, guys.

Dried Rambutan

Never had I been this excited of seeing Rambutan.
But, not the one in my hand (as seen in the picture) which is already dry or dried.
It was freshly picked from the table hotel of Seoul Olympic Parktel when I had dinner for PAS event last week. Well, it is relatively expensive to find any fruits in Korea.
I guess because it was mid Autumn and facing Winter. But, wait..is that the reason as to why it is expensive to buy fruits in here?

I can't answer and argue with that.
So, I brought it home and put it into the pocket of my jacket...until I forgot having it.
The few days afterwards, I just realized that I put it there......
But....too bad...or funnily....I had the jacket laundered.
Out of my curiosity as to whether the laundered jacket would jeopardize the colors of other fabrics.
I checked the whole t-shirts :laundering and  do damage was done.
Although its shape and color did fade, it still retain the original color.
It's a good thing that this rambutan did not do any harm t the familyu?