土俗村蔘雞湯 Tosokchon Hearty Ginseng Chicken Soup In Korea

This yummy tasting hearty chicken soup is a famous local delicacy. It is also known to have a long queue during lunch and dinner hours! Tons of tourists will throng the place and you can enjoy the long long queue time if you come during lunch or dinner hour. Korea are famous for its ginseng chicken soup that provides a warm and comfortable meal during cold winter nights. The meal speaks for itself! Try it to believe it!

Address: 5 Jahamun-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Website:http://tosokchon.com/index.php?lug=en

Hotness in Korea

 

Enjoyed this lava-hot tongue-numbing cheesy ramyun goodness while trudging through the concrete metropolis that is South Korea. Laden with Tteokbokki, its spicy and great food during a cold winter day! 

The store name 【먹쉬돈나】

Don't exactly remember where was the shop, but you probably could google it!  

Myeongdong Korean Dumpling Meal

Dumplings are probably the Koreans saving grace.
You can find this in the Myeongdong Shopping district. You can't miss it. It has one of the best dumpling and noodles soup in the area. Enjoy your meal!!
A Hot warm meal during a cold winter day is the best.

Banana taste corn snacks from Korea

More snack goodies that I procured from Korea. Banana flavoured pop corn snack! More oddities that I find around the world during my travels abroad. Look out for it when you are around the corner!

Beautiful berries in South Korea - Strawberries in season

 

The most brightly colored and most beautiful strawberries I've seen so far. May be I haven't seen enough around the world, but having the chance to try these Korean Strawberries really is lucky me! Tasty and succulent berries which I think was probably in season. And it was pretty cheap compared to what I had to fork out back home. Sweet and delicious! Yummy!  Be sure to try some when you are in Korea! 

South Korean Specialty? Rice + noodles instant cup noodles - oddest you can find

The strangest things can always come from the most common things that we take for granted all the time. Take for example this odd combination for an instant noodle that I stumbled upon during my time in Seoul, South Korea. Swiftly I bought this thing off the shelf in some convenient store, and hurriedly tried it while resting at the hotel. I couldn't recognize any of the wordings on the packing except for the prominent Noodle+Rice. So, what should one wait for? Time to dig in to unearth the differences in cultures!

 

This looks innocent enough. When you open the package you get the usual seasonings pack and the noodles that you suppose to soften with hot water. But!!! In addition to the usual that you would expect with instant noodle packages, there's also RICE in it! I reckon they are par-boiled rice like what they do to pastas in the restaurants. WEIRD combination INDEED! 

 

After a few minutes of soaking the noodles and rice in some hot boiling water which the hotel provides, when you open the heat seal, you find rice and noodles harmoniously mixed together with spicy seasonings that will kick you to heaven and hell! Some how, the combination might look odd and strange in the beginning, the taste and texture of both is actually quite good. Mind you, I'm into everything that's odd and weird, but every time things turns out to be unexpectedly good or great! Never worse. 

Well, you have to hand it to the koreans to make every instant cup noodles SPICY! You'll be gulping down cold water or yogurt after the burning pain! Enjoy and cheers!! 

Novelty sauce - Strawberry Salad Sauce

 

This is something that you also cannot find in my neck of the woods. Something odd from Korea that I fished out from one of the big supermarkets. Welcome the strawberry salad sauce! Well, salad-eating is not a basic instinct of us Malaysians, but nonetheless its a fresh take on some lettuce dipping sauce. The overly bland taste of thousand island sauce or Caesar salad sauce is running old, time for some new and refreshing take on the age-old salad eating trend.

Pine Bud Drink From Lotte–An Oddity? Or a Novelty?

 

Found this little odd drink somewhere along the aisles of some convenient shop. I’d thought I give it a try since its something you don’t see everyday in my neck of the woods. So pucker up and gulp the sucker down!

Its always my motto to try everything that is odd and unusual to myself! Therefore, I owe it to myself to give this weird little drink a swing! After all, Korean drinks don’t come around in this part of town often.

After taking the first taste, it has a tingling and refreshing sensation on the tongue. A fresh drink for a tiring day! Enjoy and cheers!

Durian in cold country

We probably know that durians are a rarity in many parts of the world, and they probably cost a bomb. Since they don't really grow them in many parts of the world, lots of people just doesn't know how to enjoy the taste. Despite the health warning that is associated with this spiky delicacy, we love them the way you love your spouse, no? That's the remarkable charm of this pungent fruit. This picture I took in one of the supermarkets in Korea, they sell this oddity in the fresh fruit section, I do wonder how fresh it is. Your guess is as good as mine.