This evening I went out for dinner, shopping, and dessert with Yeji! I met her back at UCSB last year, when she was a study abroad student from Korea :) We had linguistics classes together. I'm pretty sure we first bonded when I complimented her on her cute coat as we left a section LOL. I'm such a sucker for clothes. Anyways, we hung out and she was my first teacher in Korean (예지 선생님? 얘지 선생님? I don't know which "ye" you use for your name @.@ 미안!). We even went to eat Indian food one memorable time, when I still couldn't pronounce Taeyang properly haha. Taiyaeng!!! :) Now I'm sitting in Korea! Ah how times have changed...now I am the traveller and she is the resident.
We ate samgyupsal at a place near Sinchon station. It is literally "three-layer pork". It was SO RIDICULOUSLY DELICIOUS that I am hungry again now just thinking about it! You grill the meat (after cutting it up, which Yeji dutifully did haha), then dip it in this red sauce, then dip it in this grain powder stuff. Then you eat it with marinated onions or roasted garlic. It is DIVINE. Omg. Okay I need to stop now, it's midnight and I cannot be getting hungry right now lol.
After dinner we wandered around the shops and we went into Etude House & Skinfood to pick up a few things. For dessert, we couldn't decide between coffee and ice cream...so we chose both!! Yeji took me to the cutest little placed called Natuur (which I cannot pronounce for the life of me). They had all manner of attractive and delicious looking plates and goodies, but I got what they called an "Ice Burger" that had a combo deal with an Americano. This Ice Burger was the cutest thing you can ever imagine haha, this round adorable little scoop of ice cream in a curved sliced sugar waffle something cookie (still don't know what it exactly was but it was bomb. Crumbly and sweet!).
I had such a good time out tonight!! It was SO much fun getting to catch up and talk our hearts out over yummy food and dessert, I have missed you girl :) We are even green tea-loving twins and spent awhile discussing all the various green teas offered these days (latte, boba, ice cream, cakes, cookies, Frappucino, and actual green tea of course) while we ate/drank our green tea burgers/smoothies haha.
And thank you 언니 for taking me out and giving me all those impromptu Korean lessons (with spelling!). Haha I will try to have more confidence in my speaking sentences and spelling now with your encouragement. 연습 할거야! (I will practice!)
Also... 에뛰드!!!!! LOL. For those who are wondering, I struggled with the proper pronunciation of "Etude" from the store "Etude House" pretty much all night and didn't get the hang of it until end of dessert. Apparently people in America (and other places, even Singapore!) pronounce it differently, but the proper way is eh-ttui-deu.
And thank you 언니 for taking me out and giving me all those impromptu Korean lessons (with spelling!). Haha I will try to have more confidence in my speaking sentences and spelling now with your encouragement. 연습 할거야! (I will practice!)
Also... 에뛰드!!!!! LOL. For those who are wondering, I struggled with the proper pronunciation of "Etude" from the store "Etude House" pretty much all night and didn't get the hang of it until end of dessert. Apparently people in America (and other places, even Singapore!) pronounce it differently, but the proper way is eh-ttui-deu.