SheenaGreena

whoo hooooooooo! I knew that I woke up at 5:30 am for reason (originally to finish a paper)! A slightly korean blog, finally! reading your blog makes me homesick, I haven't been to korean since the summer of '03. I really miss it especially the food, the shopping, and most importantly my family. Anyways, I saw that you had some more raw crab as a banchan! I know you secretly love that stuff Don't worry I'll eat it all with some hot rice. So your kids love samgyeopsal (they are adorable by the way), do they like any other korean foods or do they like philipino foods more? I bet when you and your family goes out in public, korean people love to poke and squeeze your kids. also what is the difference between filipino and philipino? I always feel like I am spelling it wrong! p.s. I want to eat everything in all your pictures

geez, don't get me started on the shoes indoors thing......at least I got my irish boyfriend to wear "house shoes" inside the apartment. he took a pair of campus adidas (that haven't been worn outside) and wrote the word "house" and "shoe", one on each, shoe...hilarious back to slurping! how about slurping up hot noodles while wearing glasses?

Is slurping really polite? I think its just a way to eat noodles without burning yourself and a way of cooling down the noodles at the same time. I rarely see koreans slurping their soups (without noodles) and the ones who slurp tend to be older men. I NEVER see korean women doing this.

Love it!!!! ← Our housekeeper in Hong Kong regularly brought food back with her from her country after her trips home. Once one of the dishes main ingredients was dogmeat. The kids weren't too happy at my barking every time they opened the fridge but I did explain that in some places people are so poor that this is one of the few cheap sources of protein they have access to, as indeed was the case with our housekeeper's family, and it is, after all, just meat. I tried it and it tasted like veal, quite nice actually. But a lot of people did go eeewwww when I told them. ← I think I love you

yep, cereal with fat free vanilla soy milk - tastes like candy. I hate milk, it makes me want to gag

I live in a dorm with many foreign students. Often when I'm in the lounge I can't hear the TV because people are eating so loudly. It's louder than conversation, I swear. You wouldn't believe the amount of noise someone can make with an apple! Imagine you're a kid intentionally trying to annoy your parents by making as much noise as humanly possible: that's how one guy eats the apple. And with another guy, I can't focus on what I'm reading because I know I will be distracted by the noise from his biting down hard on his fork, which occurs forcefully on every single bite. I guess this is an area where I don't have a cultural relativist stance--it seems that such table manners are objectively problematic. ← Im confused, how else are you suppposed to eat noodles without slurping? The main reason I slurp, is because they're hot eta as I type this, Im trying to slurp up some black rice noodles with clam broth without getting too much broth on the keyboards and screen

okay, I really enjoyed the phillipino food show. Its more food based than no reservations....that show seems like its steering away from food lately. I really wanted to try those whole deep fried chickens, why were they red? were they marinated in chiles? The weirdest and bizarrest (is that a word?) thing on the show was the cheese and yam ice cream in a hamburger bun - made me laugh

yep you are exactly right and I'm one of those people who cooks for one. I don't know where I'm going to get uni (I bet its in the refridgerated section at the grocery store). Believe it or not the japanese grocery store I go to is incredibly small and really lacking in alot of ingredients. I also don't know how to prepare it at all so I will leave it up to the fine people at nippn. I assume that you just eat it as is, but still the japanese pasta sauce is cheaper, more efficient, and MOST importantly lasts a long time. If I bought uni, I'd have to use it like within a day or so. I've had this sauce packet for over a week now and its nice that I can eat pasta whenever I want to. I guess that's the most important thing to me. you should try the pasta sauce, its really not that bad. Although after eating pasta + the sauce, I feel like I just ate a stick of butter...it was soooo rich

sorry guys, but I opted against the nori. Instead I added chopped tomatos and shredded basil boy does it taste yummy! oh and it reeks of sea urchin (which is a good thing). I have to eat in the kitchen so I don't make my boyfriend sick - booooooooooo. But I like it, I think it tastes very yummy and tastes alot like sea urchin

Maybe I am becoming too Japanese but I think it would be best with a nice sprinkling of shredded nori. A quick search on of Japanese pages pulls up a couple blogs in which almost everyone comments that it is quite good. One person described it as salty but also said it would go well with sake. It is quite a bit cheaper here, in the 200 to 250 yen range ($1.70 to $2) ← I knew I wasn't crazy when I said that I thought $4.15 for a packet was rediculous...yet I paid for it, didn't I? oh yeah, it comes with shredded nori. I forgot to add that and I think I'm going to add some diced tomato to the product. I figured that it wouldn't be that bad, because I understand all of the ingredients on the package and there aren't that many. I'll let you know how it tastes...too bad I don't have a digi cam that works thanks so much for the help and suggestions p.s. sake would be good with this pasta sauce (or added directly to the sauce) but I sick so I think I'll just drink some roasted barley tea. I think japanese drink that, don't they? in korea its called "hori cha" and its delicious yum yum

I can see House M.D. now: So the little miscreant ingested some poison and we can't find a stomach pump? Bury your noggin in this Kimchee Can, kid, and BREATHE!!! ← glad to see that you enjoyed my kimchi induced vomit story. I think house would've dumped the kimchi on the kid's head and left him there to die, but thats just me

I should've figured that "kurimu" means cream. yeah, I'm scared to eat this. It was kind of expensive too: $4.19 for a packet (yes I think that's expensive, I'm cheap). At least sea urchin is listed 4th on the ingredient list after soy bean oil, whole milk, and whole egg. do you have any suggestions for garnishes or side dishes, torakris? I wonder if it would taste good with parmasean cheese or basil

I bought a 1/2 lb of shallots at the chinese grocery store for $0.99 <3 I wonder how much they would cost if I bought them at the regular grocer?

I love it, because its the smell of delicious butter...... not that crazy about eating it, but it smells heavenly nonetheless

I just found the uni cream packet that I bought through trial and error on the nippn homepage if you want to see what it looks like. uni cream pasta sauce

I like all veggies - cooked and raw. I like a lot of "mountain" and "spring" vegetables that are native to korea and prepared very very simply and served at room temperature. Unfortunately I have no clue what their names are, but I will assure that all are delicious. I can only remember fern bracken and bell flower root sweet potatos taste surprisingly good raw, anyone else agree?

Oh, my dear one, we'll be seeing you here again, I'm certain. Methinks it's not exactly LOVE at work here. Unless you can train him to like kimchi. Maybe on his overdone hamburgers, to start. ← jeez, lets hope not! I tried to train him on the kimchi, but it just won't work. This is kinda gross......don't read any further if you are easily grossed out one time he was feeling really ill and needed to throw up very badly (to make himself feel a little better). He was having a hard time doing so, so I decided to help him out by making him smell a bucket of 6 month old sour kimchi. holy crap did that do the trick. Not only did it work, but he got so pissed off at me. I dont know how it made him ill, because whenever I smell extra sour or old kimchi it makes my mouth water.

Well, now you know why I said it would never work out between us ← should've read back a few posts that you made your banana hating decision when you were younger, i'll give you a break for that one

I like to go to the japanese grocery store, because they have fun items I like to try out and this caught my eye its basically a sauce packet of "pasta sauce uni cream" and its from the company, Nippn. unfortunately there are no instructions on how to cook it (at least not in english) and I was wondering if any of you knew? Im assuming you just dump it on some cooked pasta. have any of you tried this product? does it taste good? I also bought some spicy cod roe pasta, but I think i'll have this uni cream one tonight for dinner also, any garnish suggestions or side dish suggestions? thanks also, what does: namafumi uni kurimu sauce mean? I only know what uni means

I like Dessert Work's, but its in newton. They specialize in wedding cakes and delicious handmade desserts

I just wanted to add that my korean mother adds coca cola to her bulgogi marinade. she says it tenderizes it and adds flavor. Sometimes she uses kiwi juice - which is another "secret" ingredient. I think koreans are also known to use 7 up or mountain dew in their bulgogi marinades. adding american soda to meat must be an asian thing whatever it is, it makes the meat taste delicious eta: does chinese broccoli taste anything like broccoli rabe? It looks exactly the same and broccoli rabe tastes really yummy. If so, I would definitely buy the chinese broccoli cause it usually looks way fresher and is cheaper

I still haven't seen the el bulli episode, and i'm kicking myself for missing it. has it been a year since it last aired? WHY WON'T THEY RERUN IT?

uhh thats how I eat my banana and I do pack one for lunch. Its easy to transport, easy to eat, and tastes delicious. I also hold the handle in my hand and peel it down. I understand that most people do it the opposite way. So whats the correct and polite way to eat a banana? anywho...........my boyfriend sounds like everything you guys hate (including me, but I still love him). he hates ALL vegetables except for potatos and corn and when I want to go out to eat he only eats the following: burger: medium well (gahhhhhhh) boneless buffalo tenders w/ extra blue cheese burritos and whenever I cook korean food at home I have to make sure that I cook it before he gets home from work or he might smell "kimchi" hahaha. then there are good qualities like driving me an hour or so to portland so we can get french fries at duck fat. or driving 2 hours to get to a diner in vermont so we can get their yummy home fries. Also on one of our first dates he took me to a local korean restaurant so he could try out what I tend to eat. Of course he hated it and he never took me again despite all of that and being a pain in my ass, I still love him and I don't mind (that much) that he only likes salad with lettuce, carrots, celery, and cucumber.

I never thought of using breast cartilage....I always throw that part away. Im assuming that the knee cartilage is at the end of the drumstick bone, right? Thats the best part of the drumstick and is unbelievably crunchy. I bet its more crunchy than the breast cartilage - which is more floppy.

dont know if this is for a fever, flu, or cold, but my mother likes to simmer sliced deer antlers in a crockpot for like a few days. I kid you not tastes foul, but she makes me drink it also she likes to simmer some weird looking root for a few hours on the stove and no its not ginseng....more shriveled up and brown it actually tastes pretty good and kind tastes like korean roast barley or roast corn tea eta: reminds me of when I was living in korea and I would always complain about being cold. apparently my mother thought I had low iron in my blood so she got me this god awful concoction of seal, bear (?), and deer antlers. oh my god it was brown and tasted like poo (at least what I think poo tastes like)