Mixed Plate Friday

If you watch social media, you’d know that plenty tourists love going to the convenience stores to grab a cup of ice and make their own drinks. I decided to give it a try! They make it so easy. The drink pouches are labeled by size that corresponds with the ice cup sizes! I heard that milk in Korea and Japan is doable with Asian stomaches so I had to try.

Yum! Tasted great and yeah, I didn’t get a tummy ache! Chan drank iced coffee every morning. Even mixed one with banana milk once (another trend). Wish we had this here!

Muscat Grapes

Chan’s parents bought a box of these muscat grapes from the Korea Costco. Don’t they look so pretty? Like perfection and packaged so nicely. But man oh man, we washed it up to try it and what a bummer. They were not good. A bit mushy and not at all sweet. Did we get a bad bunch???

DJ&A Potato Wedges

Found this at Costco and decided to buy a bag to try. I love potato wedges so I wanted to see how it would be as chips. It’s good! Interesting. Definitely look like potato wedges but tastes freeze dried? But also super hard to bite down on. Chan enjoyed it and I bought home the leftovers which the bros enjoyed too. Would buy it again! I wonder if we can find it here in the States…

Costco – Seoul, Korea

Costco Korea is cool as heck and I would go back again if I could. We actually went twice during this trip lol. They have everything our costco doesn’t have and it’s much less crazy. They do not check membership cards going in (so yeah, definitely no scanner either). I was able to use my Costco credit card as membership and payment card perfectly! The dollar to won rate is amazing right now so anytime we made purchases, we selected the Korean won option when asked. Look at their Executive Membership price, that’s like $70 bucks? Geez!

Found these Nike belt bags which is all the rage with my brothers so I got two for a good price! Why don’t our Costco’s have good brands like this? Korea is really into UCLA branded clothing and…National Geographic is a huge brand here. Yes, that National Geographic. I have no idea why.

Man if I lived in Korea, I would be buying their fresh foods all the time!

Everything looked so good…!

Look! They even have ready to cook soups/stews. How perfect!!!

I don’t know why I took this picture. Probably just another thing we don’t have here in the States. Wish I took pictures of their fresh sushi platters, looked restaurant quality. I didn’t even get to try their food court…they sell tteokbokki and a pork bulgogi bake (opposed to chicken bake) but I just wanted to get their hot dog. I wanted to make sure they use all beef hot dogs and not the asian sausages. I guess I’ll have to return to try next time. Have a wonderful thanksgiving everyone!

And We’re Off…

I apologize that I didn’t blog again for a bit. Like I mentioned, this is the busiest time of year for me. And honestly, I’m just running on empty at this point.

I am excited to share that I am off to Korea! So no posts for a few weeks, please follow me on instagram (maybeitsjenny) if you are interested in daily updates! If not, I’ll see you in a few weeks!

Mixed Plate Friday

Buldak Fried Rice | $7.99 (on sale)

My brother loves buldak noodles so when I saw this in the Longs ad last week, I had to get em! At first I was disappointed because I kept looking around the oriental aisle thinking this was just like a powder seasoning I add to my own rice to make the fried rice.

Just by chance, I went to the freezer section and it’s actually the whole dish there! You just gotta heat it up on the stovetop or microwave. It comes with two individual packets inside.

Sorry, but I think the portion is kind of small. This is actually both packs heated up. It was enjoyed, also wasn’t that spicy but that’s according to my brother.

Homemade Bossam

Odeng!

I love Sundays with Chan. Sometimes we plan meals on a whim and on this Sunday, I told him I felt like odeng but odeng with the fish cakes on the skewers (just like you see in the Korean dramas). So we made our run to Hmart and got the kit and also picked up some fixings to make bossam! Bossam looks nice and seasoned yeah? It’s all thanks to Chef Chan’s skills. What a delicious dinner! Have a great weekend folks!

Mixed Plate Friday

7eleven Kibun Sesame Tofu Noodle | $4.19
new, ready-to-eat tofu noodles with delicious sauce packet included. the noodles, made from tofu, are very simliar to somen noodles but lower in carbs and 0 cholesterol. healthy with only 110 calories and 7g of protein. can be eaten cold or warm by heating in the microwave for 1 minute.

I saw this at 7eleven last weekend and just had to try it. I was so curious how the noodles would taste. I almost didn’t get it because let’s be real, $4.19 for this little packet didn’t seem worth it. But something told me just go for it.

I opened the cellophane and drained out the water. I ate it cold with the sauce packet. Doesn’t look like much in this picture but bugga was GOOD. It really does taste like regular noodles. How do they do that! It was so good, but dang, I wish they would sell this in bulk at Costco or Sam’s so I can get a better deal. I would absolutely get this again.

When I sent a picture of this to Chan, he mentioned he had it in Japan before and really enjoyed it! They finally brought it over to us! Give it a try!

Sushi Robot Breakfast Bento | $5.00

I’ve talked about Sushi Robot before, they are located in the food court of Kaheka Don Quijote (the indoor one not the outdoor one). They used to be outdoors. Well, they are the only ones who open super early which helps me since I do my shopping early. They open at 6 but when they have some foods ready, they just open at 5 something.

I was actually staring from outside to see if they had food out but didn’t have…was about to leave when the lady waved me in. I reluctantly went in and she said she can make whatever I want. I said I wanted the portuguese sausage omelette bento. I didn’t know the real name but they knew exactly what I was talking about and put this together fresh for me! They already had all the different components cooked and ready to go. And yes, $5.00 total…this is with tax. Where else can you find prices like this???

Mixed Plate Friday

7-Eleven Lemon Butter Chicken Pasta | $6.49

Newish offering from 7-Eleven! How was it? Pretty good. Not like mind blowing but I’m glad I tried it!

FRENCH BUTTER

If you know me, you know I’ve been on the search for some freaking French butter. I heard so much good stuff about it and I’ve been desperate. Chan found out that Foodland Farms carries one and omg I AM SO HAPPY. Gotta get the salted one, not the unsalted because part of the appeal are the sea salt crystals in the butter. Toast some bread up and spread this bad boy on…I get the hype. I GET IT. So you go get it! Okay, only if you want bougie butter.

Mixed Plate Friday

Yummy’s Korean B-B-Q Bibimkooksoo | $16.95

Oh the pricey. So pricey. But so good. I get this one from the Ala Moana food course and I order it spicy because I am trying to prove to Chan that I am the Spice Queen (I’m not). I think they give a lot of veggies and meat and a good amount of noodles so it’s worth it for me. I’m always up for a nice good cold noodle dish.

Chinese Roast Pig!!!

Look at that thing! It’s funny to look at, I guess I’ve never seen the pig chopped up and put back in like this? It’s good they were willing to chop it up though! When we get our pig for bai san – we gotta chop our own. Not sure where this is from, was good but not super great. I thought the skin was too hard and not a light crispy, you know?

First Round

The roast pig was part of our UH Football Viewing Party. Chan and I brought Chun Wah Kam Ginger Chicken Fried Rice and Orange Chicken. Was delicious. Then I thought there was a pot of chili so I made my own chili nachos but learned it was baked beans. LOL, was good anyway. Have a good weekend everyone!

Mixed Bowl Friday

Ahjumma XL Ramen | $7.99 (sale price)

Haha this is gonna be one short post. Yup, something I saw on Tiktok that I found at Hmart that I had to try. Well, the brothers and I tried it. It’s exactly what it says, XL ramen.

I see folks on tiktok trying to eat this themselves. Well as you can see, this is like 4 huge servings of ramen. Kind of disappointing that it’s not one huge brick of noodles and just four regular ones thrown in haha.

Threw in some red hot dogs because why not? It was a nice ramen, just your typical spicy Korean ramen (much like Shin ramen). It was fun to try and eat together from one container but once was good enough. Have a great weekend folks!

Mixed Plate Friday

Glutinous Sweet Potato Bun | $9.99

Good lord, this was $10? This shows that I go blind shopping because I was waiting for these to come to Hawaii for MONTHS. Saw it on social media and was intrigued because it looks like a mini sweet potato but it’s actually a dessert. So it’s actually a mochi filled with sweet potato. I didn’t want to airfry so I heated it up in the microwave. Tasted okay, the outer layer mochi is a bit salty, maybe to balance with the sweet potato? I wasn’t a fan. And dang I paid $10 for 3!

Sorry, not trying to gloat but just wanted to thank Chan for the beautiful birthday flowers. Glad I got it the Monday after my birthday so I can enjoy it all week!

Chan’s birthday present! Isn’t this keyboard so pretty and dreamy? And he knew I wanted a creamy keyboard and this one is just that. He even got me other key options if I decide I want to change things up. I love it! I keep taking typing tests all day long to hear the keys…

This is an intended brag. I need to get better! Have a great weekend!

Mixed Plate Friday

Costco Take-home Combo Pizza | $16.99

Would this be a flat bread pizza? Maybe? It’s a rectangular shape and I never saw it before so I got it to try! Sorry I forgot to take a picture of the pizza when I baked it. The brothers ate it up so it was good. I enjoyed it. I miss their combo pizza from the food court but this will have to do.

H Mart Freshwater Prawns (frozen) | $29.99

I love prawns. And I mean the super big prawns like you see above. It’s hard to find fresh. I used to drive out to Romy’s in the North Shore just to eat their prawns (which they were almost always sold out of). Now that they moved off their shrimp farm, no sense in driving out there. I was super excited that H Mart sells it in their freezer section! Too bad no more eggs on these prawns but shoot, I’ll take it. How do I describe these prawns? Sweet and luscious meat with the big head full of miso. So good. I think if you asked me what my final meal would be, it would include big prawns. $30 seems pricey but you get quite a bit so I think it’s very much worth the cost.

I made some butter with garlic and onions as a sauce and of course gotta have the lemon wedges on the side. This was a heavenly meal.