Hope this helps those that were wondering how to do it! I’m sure some people will be like “You should do it this way blah blah” but this is how we do it and it’s fine! haha.
Student food!
Intercultural Life
Korean food and recipes
Hope this helps those that were wondering how to do it! I’m sure some people will be like “You should do it this way blah blah” but this is how we do it and it’s fine! haha.
Student food!
This was one of those funny moments where I was the only one that knew this cultural difference. The Koreans not realising that we don’t put tomatoes in fruit salad and my parents being (mock) horrified at the thought of tomatoes in fruit salad. We were having a big dinner together and mum and I were making the dinner while the Koreans were making dessert.
Sometimes on the internet I see this quote “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” I always mentally add, “Unless you are Korean”.
Tomatoes are usually in patbingsu (Korean shaved ice dessert) as well…. I always eat around them because I can’t stomach tomatoes in anything that is supposed to be dessert.
What about you? Would you put tomatoes in fruit salad?
I also see Korean people snack on cherry tomatoes a lot and also have tomatoes sprinkled with sugar. (My husband is explaining about that right now and how they want to make it sweet…. haha… oh and now we are arguing about the appropriateness of tomatoes in sweet stuff).
He loves honey! He’ll always have it on toast and usually makes a mess too. Actually there have been several honey messes he has made. Sometimes he takes some little packets from his work cafeteria and sometimes they burst and make a mess in his backpack.
The last time we went to Korea he casually threw a jar of honey in his suitcase but didn’t have it wrapped in plastic or anything! When he opened his suitcase in Korea his clothes had honey all over them.
Is anyone going to the Kwave Festival in Melbourne? We are thinking of going and would love to meet some blog readers there if anyone is going.
He likes to think that it shut down because he got food poisoning from there over a year ago. Actually it’s a chain restaurant so it could have just moved. Anyway he wanted to feel like he had a win against a restaurant that did nothing when we complained and didn’t even apologise.
It was 2 days after our Australian wedding and we had taken his sister and father to Sydney because they were flying back to Korea. We were staying with my parents (in my home town) at that time so didn’t have an apartment in Sydney. We were going to have a nice day in Sydney before going back to my home town. Then he got food poisoning from that place and was sick all night and the next day had to be on a train for a few hours. Poor Mr Gwon! I knew he was so sick when he was refusing to eat…. or even talk! I managed to get him to my aunt’s house where we stayed until he recovered.
Just a reminder: I’m not uploading comics on weekends now so I have enough time for some other projects.
I’ve mentioned before how he didn’t really like cheese before he met me. He hadn’t experienced much cheese outside of Korea so he didn’t know how delicious it is. Once he had tried Australian cheese though, he loved it.
I’ve also met Koreans who say they don’t like sandwiches, which always seems strange to hear. Who doesn’t like sandwiches?? Everyone likes sandwiches! Then I saw what sandwiches were usually like in Korea and understood why many people disliked them.
He is always telling me to put more cheese on everything. He is trying to get better eating habits but giving up cheese completely might be out of the question.
Another cooking video! We didn’t show the recipe exactly because there are lots of recipes online and they are all pretty similar. We wanted to show the extra things you can put into tteokbokki which can make it even better.
By the way, it wasn’t three of us eating all that tteokbokki! There were many people eating it, we just didn’t show them.
It can be interesting observing the Korean hierarchy sometimes. You’ll notice in the video I pointed out how my husband acts in relation to his sister sometimes. She is only one year younger than him but it can make all the difference. Of course she has to call him “oppa” but also, she can’t really be on equal terms with him. It’s very different to the relationships I have with my siblings where age doesn’t make much difference. My sister-in-law however, will listen patiently to lectures from my husband and will be respectful to him even when he does annoying things like take her food. My siblings wouldn’t put up with me doing that.
My husband was the eldest Korean in the house while we were there. Typhoon (who you have seen before and get a glimpse of his tattooed leg in the video) learnt the slang phrase “top dog” from some Australian friends and felt that was the best way to describe in English what my husband’s position in the household was in regards to them. So before we arrived he was talking about the “top dog” coming back.
Anyway, back to the food! It was really good! It was a combined effort. Adele was behind the camera but also giving some directions of what to put in. I really liked the cheese version as well. If you have trouble eating really spicy food it’s a good way of eating tteokbokki without it being too spicy. The cheese really takes away the edge and melted cheese is always delicious.
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