Bapuri 바푸리

Resto deket rmh penyelamat perut lapar tiba-tiba. Banyak gimbab dan makanan Korea lain yg bisa dinikmati.

Tdk mahal dan ...tdk murah. 

Taglinenya sih 좋은재료.좋은음식.

 Bahan bagus, makanan enak.

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.^^

On Our Way to 칼국수 Place

We ended our day with having dinner together. Om Kiki is planning on going back to Indonesia for good, unless he got accepted for his Post-Doctoral course. We've been hanging out with his family lately. After a movie-going experience, we wanted to try out a 칼국수 and 콩국수 place that our friends recommended. 

It's not far from where he lives. Just 5-minute walk from Wolgok station, line 6.

When Eyra and Freya were hands in hands with their '산타 할아버지' ( om Kiki's nickname)....^^, I just couldn't help but taking picture after picture...^^ to seize the moment. 

Now we're at the restaurant. Since this restaurant specializes itself in 뽕잎-made 국수...we had to order that. In the end, 2 bowls of 검은 콩국수 and two bowls of 칼국수  plus 해물파전 were what we ordered.  

It's not fast food for sure. The juin himself served us. Interestingly, this restaurant is managed by himself and his wife. No other customers were around since we had our dinner late at almost 9 pm when most people would've had their dinner already, I supposed. 

Yummy. Delicious...and not much left. 

Eyra and Freya seemed to enjoy having the meal together.

Thank you Om Kiki for the treat.^^

been such a great day, today.

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..^^

@ Apgujeong

 

We had a wedding lunch at a restaurant adjacent to the wedding venue. We thought it was such a cool restaurant nestled in the busy district of Apgujeong. We loved the ambiance that the venue offered to its visitors. 

One of the cool amenities that the restaurant provided for its customers was its traditional outdoor heating on which we could hover our hands to warm ourselves up. 

They even had a pond and a flowing water system ...enough to create a soothing sound around the restaurant. 

This is the entrance to the restaurant. I think 삼원가든  (Samwon Garden) gives an unmistakably 'wow' reception to its guests by setting up a place like this in a hip yet crowded district like Apgujeong. 

Well, since it's still 4 pm and the kids did not want to go home, just yet. We might as well walk around to the nearest street that for the past 3-years keeps on gaining popularity: Garosu-gil (가로수길) @ Sinsa station. 

The kids just got their 'lunch' but yet..we wanted to sit down and relax...and agaiiin...WARM ourselves UP inside a restaurant.

But...though we wanted to warm ourselves up, the kids ordered blueberry yogurt!!! 

As long as they had fund enjoying what they wanted, okay girls....

(*Phew what a relief* They agreed to share one glass of blueberry yogurt!!!)

--> good girls.:)

Misoya

A Japanese restaurant chain in Korea. Though it is a Japanese restaurant, its food are mainly served with Korean taste: I mean..the taste suits the palate of Koreans. So, it's a kind of fusion restaurant, I guess. 

We dined out there to have a different atmosphere. It's just 10 minute walk from home and not that far in our standard.^^esp. for the kids. 

Of course, we could only ordered salad, odong, fish nugget: for the kids 

and albab 알밥 for me. kimchi, kim, cucumber, sesame, carrots all shredded and put them on top of warm rice.... 

They just had their wasabi...and they just couldn't get the sensation off their tongue!

Now you know, kiddos.

한정식 Korean Food

Hmm..It was one of the best nights to have dinner. My friend and I had a great feast. A feast so great that it soothed both my eyes and tongue. ^^

한정식: A Korean food served in all varieties and imaginable colors; served one by one, one dish after another until we felt so overwhelmingly and happily full^^ 

I could not keep up number of foods being served right in front of our eyes, let alone the names of them. 

But, one of the things that I loved the most was this rice. Being a vegetarian, this 한정식 really served my appetite. I surely could not touch the meat but luckily...most of the food were those of seafood origins: a plus advantage. 

It would be one of the best things of having a chance to crave over Korean food.^^