Gwangjang Market

Aunties love markets so I brought Mum Dad there.

Gwangjang Market is famous for Bindaetteok (mung bean pancakes), so Mum Dad had a try.

I personally think its soso but despite Mum's crooked mouth they quite like it hot and crispy.

Then there was a whole stretch of Bibimbap and Naeng Myeon stalls there, which I insisted on eating.

I love Naeng Myeon (cold buckwheat noodles with chilli paste), but Mum Dad hates it cuz its cold. You know, old people dont typically like cold food.

Mum mixing the Bibimbap and Dad looking on warily. They hated it too, despite it being hot food. Cuz they say it looks like dog food, everything mixed together haphazardly.

I argued that its just like our fried rice where everything is mixed together with rice, they rebutted saying that there was a weird taste even though its the same chilli paste. Duh.

Weird fruit on sale, its known as Akebia 木通果 good for relieving pain and cancer.

Dad caught buying sugared peanuts thats not yum hahaha.

Random Korean Eats

My #1 favorite - Bibimmyeon

Cold noodles in spicy sauce!

I love the spicy and full yet refreshing flavour of this dish. Thought abit too spicy for me but the spicyness is easily washed down by the complimentary free flow laver soup.

#2 Pat Bing Sul (Red Bean Ice)

Actually I prefer to have just the soy bean powder and no red bean haha a very healthy dessert cuz its light and not too sweet!

#3 Ediya honey toast

Chanced upon this while having mid afternoon coffee at Ediya, its abit like After You honey toast in Bangkok. After You is better but this is heavenly enough!

The rests - Korean BBQ

Random Korean BBQ restaurant. I find it quite strange to have duck in korean bbq but the duck turned out pretty good! Goes well with makkoli (rice wine) but I would prefer the more traditional marinated beef and pork belly.

Yoogane @ Myeongdong

Yes we have it in SG too, I just want to see if its any different in Korea. But actually, its the same hahaha except that its about 50% cheaper in Korea. It gets really oily towards the end though.

Mum loves this 锅巴汤 (scorched rice soup?) side dish in Yoogane, cuz of the fragrance of the scorch rice and how its lightness compliments the oily chicken main dish well.

Kuk Bap (soup rice)

Basically kimchi beef soup with rice immersed it in, I love kimchi soup and I love beef so this goes well with me, especially when I get both soup and rice in a single scoop! hahahaha #superlazyass

Jajangmyeon (black sauce noodle)

Korean-chinese dish, delivered to our doorstep right before our flight. I dont like it personally because its full of onions and I HATE onions. Mum Dad are okay with it though.

Some say korean food requires an acquired tastebud but I can eat korean food everyday!

Korean Fishery Market

Brought my parents to Kang Seo Fishery Market (cuz Noryangjin is apparently under construction) and they seemed super fascinated haha.

Do you know that cuttlefish can swim backwards?? Damn cool.

So korean fishery market concept is buy your live seafood from the market, then bring it up on your own to the eateries upstairs and tell them how u want to cook it.

We bought prawns, clams, octopus and small fishes and asked for them to be grilled since Mum Dad doesnt eat raw stuffs.

There was a pancake station in the eatery we went where we can make our own kimchi pancake!

So YUM, I went back to make a 2nd one!

Dad's Birthday in Seoul

We went to this modern Korean restaurant which literally translates to Kkot Dam House (kkot = flowers, dam = wall).

Dad loves the place, walked around admiring the art pieces on the wall and the garden.

Its a x-course (I cant remember how many courses) meal at KRW35,000/pax (~SGD42/pax).

Starters: Korean salad and hot porridge. Mum Dad didnt like the porridge cuz it "tastes weird", I didnt like it cuz its bland.

Acorn jelly was very refreshing and light, very interesting dish since we dont have acorn jelly in Singapore. Smoked salmon was okay, but personally I prefer traditional salmon sashimi.

Fried acorn pancake thats crispy and yum, and some preserved veggie korean style that I dont like.

Main dish #1: Beef hamburger which really tastes soso only.

Main dish #2: Chilli prawns for non-beef eaters, I think Singapore style chilli prawns are way better.

Mushroom dumplings, too mushroomy.

Assorted korean pancakes, from left: Rice cake pancake, kimchi pancake, fried zucchini, fried fish. I like left 2 most.

I missed out on afew dishes: Flour dumplings in soy bean broth, and sweet citron tea served at the end of the meal.

Strawberry cake for Dad, Korean style. Hope Dad enjoyed his 57th birthday which is a little bit different~~

Q3 2015 Nails

Matching toe and finger nails for Boracay (yes I really do go overseas alot)!

These are my favorite this quarter, super patriotic SG50 National Day nails:

I am not fond of this:

Oh but the studs now are being stuck on much easier and stayed on much longer now, with the discovery of this in Taobao:

Its used to create a base for the stud to sit on, cure to secure the stud, then add more of this gel around the stud to further support it, cure again, then add normal top coat to seal and it will last for weeks! And its so cheap, Taobao is so wonderful! Haha.

Marble nails which I thought looked like crap but everyone says is nice hmm:

Q2 2015 Nails

Simple nails that I brought to Shanghai and they lasted a month woohoo!

Nails in Korea, I only had a 18hr layover in Singapore so this was quite rushed work:

This is my Q2 favorite:

This could have been better, I am not proud of them =/

My 31st birthday nails, those are supposed to be cupcakes but didnt turn out as cute as I wish:

Confetti birthday nails:

Nails for Penang, I was trying something else but turned out disastrous so changed to these last minute:

Q1 2015 nails

I went Bangkok with these nails:

Right hand started out like this, but some of the nails were very badly done (though not obvious from this photo):

I buey tahan so changed to this, including an attempt at marbling on the pinky nail:

Next up is a rustic motif themed nails:

It is quite impossible for my left hand to draw those motifs so a much simpler and less nice design is used instead:

Rocker style:

This is when I have not mastered the art of sticking studs on my nails and was using glue, it was totally messy and horrible.

I loved the chrome heart studs so much but it was so hard to remove cuz of the glue I used, and the little sphere studs fell out pretty fast too. =/

But this sticking skill improved tremendously next quarter! Stay tuned!