Hansung Seafood Tuk-bok-ki (Seasoned Rice Cake) Review

April 22, 2011 By Anna 2 Comments

Wow...time flies...it's already April...end of April...

Well, one day my sister Helena was so excited and praised how this instant Tukbokki her friend brought for her.

First of all, you need to know that she LOVES eating Tukbokki but not so much on cooking it. She told us that this was the perfect thing to have in your fridge when you gotta have that Tukbokki...like right now....!

She never was this excited about frozen food, so I thought I will give it a try too...but was little skeptical about this being a 'frozen food.' Found it in the frozen section...Helena asked me to get her 5 packs to stock up when I went to get one. Ha ha. Helena with her Tukbokki cravings...


So, this is the package...a nice sturdy package. We'll see if that shrimp in the picture is in there...we'll see...
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Bibimbop for Dinner

March 24, 2011 By Anna Leave a Comment

My friend Helen invited June and me for a quick dinner. She prepared bibimbop for us. Nice.
Bibim means mix and bop means rice.
I'm sure many will know about this dish. It's a good dish to eat all different kinds of vegetables at once. But it takes some time to prepare since each vegetable needs to be prepared separately first.

Anyhow back to her bibimbop...

She sliced radish very thin and mixed with some salt and red pepper flakes. [Read more...]

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Dongwon T2U All Natural Organic Green Tea

February 28, 2011 By Anna 2 Comments

My friend gave me this bottle of tea. Like most of other teas bottled, I thought this would be too sweet to my taste since I don't like sweet stuff especially for tea or coffee. I personally think you can appreciate true flavor of tea or coffee without adding other stuff.

Well, back to this tea, to my surprise, this was just regular green tea like the Costco's Japanese tea I like. Nice! Hey I like this tea.

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Spicy Seafood Hot Pot

February 24, 2011 By Anna Leave a Comment

My brother visited from Virginia and mom cooked us a seafood spicy hot pot. She made broth from radish and Dashima (Kelp). We used portable tabletop stove to heat it while we eat. We didn't need have any other banchan but we were fully satisfied with this hot pot. Oh but we ate rice with it.  This hot pot just made our lunch the best! I actually had to stop everyone before it was too late to take the picture. Ha ha. This hot pot had shrimp, octopus, crab, watercress, bean sprouts, and tofu. Packed with healthy stuff and yummy too! Oh the soup was nice clean taste and hot it was 'shiwon'

Koreans have a term when eating soup like this hot and spicy soup. We say it's 'shiwon-hada' which literally means 'it's cool' (Shiwon-cool).

Rather than focusing on the temperature of the soup, the term describs how it tastes and feels once the food goes down your stomach... if you know what I mean. For example...I don't it's the best example...but, if you were eating a hamburger and you drink coke to wash the greasy food down or coffee afterwards. That feeling? Lol and Koreans love to have that feeling with hot and clean soup. It doesn't always have to be spicy though. Bean sprouts clear soup is the popular 'shiwon' soup. This term is used usually for clear soups like this hot pot or bean sprouts soup.

What's your 'shiwonhada' soup?

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Just Another Day

February 23, 2011 By Anna Leave a Comment

I work at a learning center teaching young kids after school. Today, we were writing a letter and did some drawing related to a topic and I thought their drawings were so nice that I'm sharing with everyone.

***Quick quiz just for fun:
Can you guess what  the topic was? How old each 'artist' is?


Very colorful and love those cute faces ^^ You see the bangs and hair on the sides? Awwww~

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Pei Wei Asian Diner in Columbia, MD

February 20, 2011 By Anna 1 Comment

I was driving around and got hungry...what to get ...what to get...need to eat...now...

My options I could think fast in Columbia, MD for a quick meal was Chipotle, Cosi, Pei Wei, Noodles & Company...etc.

I was near Pei Wei so I checked out their website since I've only been there once years ago.

So, Pei Wei was created by PF Chang people and seem to have Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese...
And to my surprise they had 'Limited Time Only' (is that for real...?) Korean BBQ. Hmm...'Korean"??
I gotta go check that out and review that dish. LOL.

I know people just name our Korean BBQ to whatever sauce they invent. Just hoped that this one is not another new creation afar from the original Korean BBQ. [Read more...]

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Hasung Korean Chinese Cuisine@ Hanoori Town in Catonsville, MD

January 27, 2011 By Anna 2 Comments

This was one of my RECOVERY menu from the flu. Ha ha... I was craving Jjajangmyun for days...I've tried Jjajang Ramyun to ease my craving but had to go get the real one.

My friend Q and I went to Hasung Korean Chinese Restaurant/Carryout in Hanoori Town food court (this food court used to be Beseto located next to Catonsville H-Mart).  We think they have the best Jjajangmyun in Maryland.

Every Korean Chinese has 2 main dishes; Jjajangmyun and Jjamppong and it's not the regular Jjajangmyun but Gan Jjajang Myun that you gotta try at Hasung.

First of all, in case you are not too familiar with Jjajang Myun itself, it's made with black bean paste, called chunjang. Chunjang is cooked with veggies and meat and later mixed with noodles. Usually Jjajangmyun comes out in one bowl with Sauce over the noodle.

Gan Jjajang Myun comes out in two separate bowls, one noodle and one sauce bowl. [Read more...]

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Quick n’ easy Kimchi Tuna Spicy Sauce and Rice

January 25, 2011 By Anna 1 Comment

After recovering from my nasty flu, my appetite has come back and I am craving so much different foods. I think I'm going to gain too much weight if I eat EVERYTHING I am craving these days...my craving has been going international and out of control...

For lunch, I wanted something instant and fast...but still something with a kick. Spicy and salty...yes...Mmmm

When I went grocery shopping, I realized I haven't been eating canned tuna for a while, so I just grabbed a 4-pack canned tuna today.

I'm planning to go eat Jjajangmyun later tonight (one of my must-eats now) so eating rice will balance the noodle I'm going to eat later. I'm so planned out with meal plans. LOL.

So anyway...if you ever want to try this here are the things I used:
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Happy New Year!

January 3, 2011 By Anna Leave a Comment

Hope 2011 be your best year ever!

Ddukgook, Rice cake soup usually cooked with Mandu/Dumplings (Called Dduk Mandu Gook then).

Garnished with egg yolk and whites strips, roasted seaweed, meat ripped into strips after making the broth for the soup.

***Koreans count the age from the year you were born, so New year means another year older (no matter when your birthday is...so we count 2 ages...one in general by birth year alone and by birthdate too..getting complicated eh?)***

Koreans say you become 1 year older when you eat this soup. Don't know why.... but that's what we say...Ha ha...

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Honey Pig Gooldaegee Korean B-B-Q

December 27, 2010 By Anna Leave a Comment

For Christmas, I went to Gool daegee, Honey Pig 2, Korean BBQ Restaurant in Ellicott City with my good friend June. This is the only restaurant around this area
that's 24hours open. Their main specialty is BBQ but they have many other
dishes and Entrees. June and I usually go for Pho to Pho Dat Thanh so a server there remembers us ha ha ha... but we decided to eat something different for
the Christmas.

I haven't had Samgyupsal for the longest time... so
we headed to Honey Pig. Samgyupsal(direct translation meaning Three layered meat) is like bacon but fresh not smoked. Oooooo~

We ordered 2 servings of Samgyupsal and each of us ordered cold noodle soup, Nangmyun. I ordered Mul Nangmyun and June ordered spicy Bibim Nangmyun.
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