Saturday, 17 January 2015

Great $7 lunch

My new favorite place is this Boribap (보리밥) restaurant.

I ate there before and had the full set meal, but this time I went for the simple set ($7 per person).

You get a large bowl with half white rice and half barley rice, along with a platter of prepared vegetables (나물):


It's a make-it-yourself bibimbap kind of thing.

Put an assortment of the vegetables into the rice bowl, add sesame oil and hot pepper sauce, and mix.

Delicious, healthy, and inexpensive!

Also served is a choice of two soups; I opted for fermented soybean soup (청국장) . . . a bit smelly but it tastes good.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

North Korea Article

This article has some interesting perspectives/information that I haven't read before:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30812237

Sunday, 11 January 2015

Salmon-Vegetable Soup

Delicious + healthy:


Building Site






These pictures span about 6 months, and show the beginning of a vast earth-removal project to its near-end.  The speculation is that this building site (in Sanbon, Gyeonggido) will be a new Lotte Mart (kind of like a Super Target in the U.S.), a department store + grocery + parking (probably underground) + maybe a cinema.

Saturday, 10 January 2015

And . . . in 2016 . . .

. . . . a Popeye movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c


Christmas 2015

Snoopy Movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmV3zGifOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c

Friday, 2 January 2015

Article: Chinese Cram Schools/Tests

An interesting read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese-test-prep-factory.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0