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Five Tables in Hapjeong

Went to Five Tables in Hapjeong with mum & sister
It's a very small & cosy pasta place with just five pretty tables
합정에 있는 Five Tables에 다녀왔어요
예쁜 식탁이 다섯 개 있는 작고 귀여운 곳

 Everything we ordered tasted excellent, including the free pieces of bread for entrée
식전 빵도 맛있고 스파게티와 피자도 딱 우리 모녀 입맛에 맞았습니다

loved the home-cooked feel
이렇게 예쁘고 맛있는 곳이 집에서 가깝다니.. 행복합니다

Tel: 02-3141-1555 
서울 마포구 서교동 396-22 1F
Seoul Mapogu Seogyo-dong 396-22

nearly summer

time to visit Okrumong for the best Papbingsu in Seoul! (red bean paste on shaved frozen milk with pieces of ricecake.. comes in green tea flavor too)
봄은 어디가고 이제 벌써 여름이 다가옵니다.. 옥루몽 타임!

Tel: 02-325-4040 
서울 마포구 서교동 402-18
Seoul Mapogu Seogyodong 402-18

making jaaaaaaaam

i made jam with Bokbunja - i've never seen this fruit in Australia so i looked up in the dictionary to find out what it's called.. and it says Robus coreanus fruit.
It's got a very nerdy name (so i'll stick to Bokbunja), but the fruit is actually very tastey. They look like blueberries.
복분자 잼을 만들었습니다.

I used about a kilo of Bokbunja and half a kilo of raw sugar.. or more. i actually don't have a recipe. so i don't know how to make jam. so this was a purely creative process.
복분자 1kg에 흑설탕 500g..일꺼에요 아마..
사실은 제대로 된 레시피 없이 했기 때문에 그냥 되는데로 넣었습니다.
솔직히 이렇게 해서 잼이 실제로 만들어지는지 잘 알아보지도 않고 시작했습니다.

i left it for an hour so the sugar can suck all the juice out of bokbunja.
복분자에 설탕을 더해서 한시간 가량 방치합니다.

in the meanwhile i boiled the jars to kill the evil germs.
그 동안 잼을 담을 유리병을 끓였구요..

and then i added heat to bokbunja, stirring it all the time. this went on for more than an hour. just when i couldn't feel my arm, i added some lemon juice. (3 lemons)
한 시간 방치하고 복분자와 설탕을 같이 끓입니다. 한 시간 이상 끓이는데, 계속 저어주어야 합니다. 팔이 떨어져나갈 때 쯤에 레몬즙을 짜서 팍팍 넣어줍니다.(레몬 3개)

and you boil and stir for another half an hour or so until the texture comes close to this.
그리고나서 또 한참을 끓이면서 저어줍니다. 이 정도 되면 완성?

my jam doesn't have that gooey-ness or the jelly-ness but it spreads fine.
시중에 파는 잼처럼 젤리같지는 않지만 빵에는 잘 발라지네요.

So I was very happy after hours of work
BUT!! it turns out that this bokbunja fruit is full of tiny but extremely hard seeds.
so when mum tried it she nearly broke her teeth.
공들여서 겨우 만들었다 꺄오~ 좋아하고 먹어봤는데
글쎄 복분자씨.. 이거 걸러내고 만들어야했네요..
저희 엄마는 복분자잼을 드시고 이가 부러질뻔 했습니다.

oh well.
i've decided that i would swallow all the seeds and enjoy my jam.
그래서 저는 그냥 씨를 다 삼켜먹기로 했습니다.

how to exercise in summer

i took a walk along Han river with mum a few days ago
the view was beautiful. but would have been better without twenty thousand mosquitos and moths.
we walked for about 2 hours and burned a million calories

방학하고부터 엄마랑 한강에서 산책을 시작했습니다.
한강은 낮에도 보기 좋지만 역시 밤이 최고~ 모기랑 나방이 20만마리 있었는데.. 그것만 아니면 정말 최고~
2시간 땀 뻘뻘 흘리며 걷고난 후에~

and then we went into a cafe at Jamsil Daegyo (bridge) to reward ourselves with a bowl of Pabbingsu (snow cone! or more like snow bowl.. with red bean paste and lots of nuts and ricecake(mochi) and milk and espresso poured all over it)

잠실대교에 있는 카페에서 팥빙수 한 그릇 뚝딱!
우유랑 에스프레소까지 주는 센스~

so we probably ended up consuming four million calories at 11pm but it was worth it!

밤 11시에 먹는 팥빙수는 그야말로 꿀맛..
운동한게 조금 아깝긴 하지만~ 강추!!

update

on the plum juice (extract).

 

yuuuuuuummmmm.



I'm sick. boooo But I have more time to blog. yaaaaay  so 2 entries today.

for grandma

fruit pancake i made for brekky

maple syrup overdone. thumbs up!

Jukdo market in Pohang

on my last day in Pohang we visited the largest market, the Jukdo market, which is full of completely random stuff:

and loads of fresh foods:

and random men delivering stuff on bicycles:

addictive rice and corn snacks!

a woman shopping in her beautiful Korean traditional dress, Hanbok

and some exquisite beans:

and chilli peppers. just looking at them makes my eyes, mouth AND nose water

this stall sells pumkin and red bean porridge and some other noodle dishes, and we're an old regular.

the lady who runs this stall is SO generous she always gives us so much food for free. and that day she served us four bowls of noodle soup and two kinds of kimchi all free of charge.

People in Pohang are extremely generous. When you buy something they'll give you double the amount of what you order. In less than 50,000won (USD$50) we were able to buy 4 different kinds of vegetables and pickles, and about 8L(yes, 8 Litres) of pumpkin and red bean porridge which is still sitting in my fridge, and some rice cakes.


WADDA BARGAIN!





Address: Buk-gu Jukdo-1dong Jukdo1-dong, Buk-gu, Pohang-si
Tel: 82-54-242-7373