With love from 제주도: Day 4

Engaged Mr.Richard Kim as our taxi driver for the day.

Never will u meet sucha rare taxi driver like him!

He’s so warm, joyous, friendly & chatty!

And his background are v interesting indeed for a taxi driver!

He was a professor for six yrs & even better, he became CEO of a company & decided to become a taxi driver to meet friends frm all over the world! He intends to publish a book in a yr or two. Great ambition indeed! Richard even said he is on good pars with the current Korea president & their ministers!

Not only can he speaks Korean, he can also converse in Mandarin, English & even Japanese!

I highly highly recommend those who intend to book a cab to contact him!

U will not regret for sure! (:

Richard’s Charges: 130,000 won (9a.m.-6p.m.)

Mobile: 001-82-10-3710-0065

Email: skimsr@hanmail.net

Ooooh, if u really do engage Richard, kindly quote my name ‘Sherlene’ from Singapore okays! Tell him I went Jeju with another 3 of my frens – Jz, Jh & Brandon! 😀

I’m sure he still rmbrs all of us! Cos’ we left memos for him in his personal diary! ^^

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1st stop: Tapdong Hobong Toast

Brekkie stop @ Tapdong!

babypops’ spaghetti tutorial :D

Wanna try cooking ur virgin dish?

Try cooking spaghetti!

It’s so simple & hassle-free!

I ♥ COOKING! 

Here’s a simple tutorial in making ur very own spaghetti!

Ingredients for my spaghetti

Spaghetti

Butter

Olive Oil

Parsley

Parmesan Cheese

Luncheon Meat

Ham

Garlic

Spaghetti sauce

Of course, it’s up to ur preference wad other ‘liao’ you want to add, such as pork, eggs, chicken, mushroom, red chilli flakes blah blah.

But as I’m kinda budget, so I havta make do with wadeva ingredients I have! (:

Step 1: Boil spaghetti in boiling water for 10 minutes or so.

Tip: Sprinkle some salt in boiling water before adding in spaghetti!

Step 2: Dice ingredients like luncheon meat, pork etc. while waiting for spaghetti to boil. 

Step 3: Add Olive oil & melt some butter onto the frying pan.

CAUTION!

The oil and butter will sizzle a ‘lil!

You might wanna stand a bit further for a few sec.

Step 4: Throw ur diced ingredients into the frying pan.

Tip: Fry till luncheon meat & ham turned abit chao-da!

It will taste nicer that way! ^^

Step 5: After 10 minutes, drain away the boiling water, and pour the spaghetti on a plate.

Tip: Wash spaghetti in cold water to make it softer to the touch! 😀

Step 6: According to the number of pax, roughly gauge the number of spaghetti sauce servings you need. 

Heat spaghetti sauce under low heat for 5-10 minutes.

Step 7: At the same time, melt some butter, add some garlic & briefly heat up the spaghetti on another pan for 1-2 minutes.

Tip: For better taste, sprinkle seasonings like parsley & parmesan cheese over the spaghetti!

Step 8: Remove spaghetti from the pan.

Step 9: Pour spaghetti sauce over the spaghetti.

And yessss, you are done!!!

FINAL PRODUCT

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After 5 minutes, my plate became like this

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Hahahaha! 😀

I hope you guys enjoyed this simple spaghetti tutorial!

Try it! (:

Ocean Pedi ^^

Back with another nail color & design this time round! ^^

Quite lazy to paint my nails for quite sometime!

Teeheex.

Bought Skinfood creamy nail color in Ocean & decided to use it this week!

The nail color comes in a really cuteeeee milk bottle design!

2,500 won nia!

Cheap cheap!

It’s actually quite a hassle to apply nail art stamps on my nails.

Practice makes perfect, but somehow it’s either the nail art stamp designs are too big, or tt I’m jst nt good in applying it. The designs always stamp halfway one, u get wad I mean?

Sobx.

But anyways, noone will really scrutinize my feet that close ba, else they will be PA-JIAO liao!

Hahahaha!

Tadahhhhh!!!!!

The end product!

Ooops, pardon the heart shape! :p

FACE THE WORLD, MY CHIO FEET! ^^

With love from 제주도: Day 3

1st stop: Teddy Bear Museum

Although I’m nt really a teddy bear lover, but I strongly recommend anyone who goes to Jeju to visit this attraction. There are indoor museums & outdoor areas for u to take photos.

Masterpieces like Mona Lisa  as well as noted celebrities are reborn as teddy bears.

Simply go to Teddy Bear Museum & enjoy the quirky combination of history and teddy bear charm!

Entrance fee: 7,000 won

RATING: ♥♥♥♥♥

♥ Insadong Bizeun rice cakes & Patbingsu ♥

Been quite beezee these few days, but am oso growing fatter at the same time.

No time to update my blog.

Gg to be a dead blog soon. :p

Anyhows, today’s post is abt food agn!

I really loveeeeeeeee food soooo muchie!

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Well, I went to Insadong twice in the month of May to eat BIZEUN famous rice cakes & patbingsu!

SHIOKS BO? Hehehe.

The nearest way to get there is to alight at Jonggak subway & get out via Exit 3.

This is how the exterior of Bizeun looks like.

Also named 'Tteok' (떡)

BIZEUN

 My 1st Visit

By the time I’m there, many types of rice cakes were sold out! -.-

So I suggest it’s better to arrive there early & lay ur hands on ur fav rice cakes flavors!

Ooooh, I particularly like the rice cakes in the center! The juice will spill out, so be careful!

Mochi, Manjoo

Best selling items

Their steamed rice cakes not only looks cute, but taste good too!

After taking photos of the rice cakes & store layout, I ordered 1 Sweet Pumpkin Steamed Rice Cake (I got the last one!!!), 1 set of traditional colorful rice cakes for bb’s family & 1 Green Tea Patbingsu.

While waiting...

Sweet Pumpkin steamed rice cake, & Traditional colorful rice cakes!

Sweet pumpkin steamed rice cake is nice! Looks good yo!

TADAHHHHHH…

MY GREEN TEA PATBINGSU!!!!!

LOOKS SO YUMMILICIOUS!!!!

WANNA TRY IT?

Close up of my Green Tea Patbingsu…

Comes with red bean mochi too!

Jst by looking at it makes me salivate alr!

Shaved ice.

After 10 minutes

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Dunnit wash the bowl liao!

I alr lick it for the washer! It’s so clean lor! Haha! :p

My 2nd Visit with friends

This time round, I ordered Red bean manjoo, Green tea Patbingsu (YES, AGAIN!) & shared traditional colorful rice cakes with Shirlyn & Jz.

Our Green Tea Patbingsu along with Jz's Jojobi tea! Refreshing!

Jz ordered quite a bit of stuff frm Bizeun.

Here’s what he ordered FOR HIMSELF ONLY.

Haha!

Yes, all the steamed rice cakes are Jz's orders! Keke.

Jz looks satisfied with his many food orders!! 😀

So, here’s my rating for BIZEUN Green Tea Patbingsu.

Price for BIZEUN’s patbingsu is abt 5,500 won to 6,000 won. But for the quality, I wouldn’t complain for this price. I guess that’s the avg price for a bowl of patbingsu in Korea ba.

Caffe Bene’s bingsu commands a steeper price for its Strawberry bingsu. 8,000 won ler! But also tastes good lah! Haha.

BIZEUN’s patbingsu comes with a generous dose of red bean mochi and red beans. Plus the green tea ice cream is freshly grounded one! Taste simply amazingggggg.

Oooh-la-la…

As for the sweetness level, different ppl have different preferences. As I’m a sweet-tooth person, I really like how it taste in my mouth. But for ppl who don’t really fancy sweet stuff, the sweetness of the patbingsu might be a ‘lil strong.

 Price: ♥♥♥ & a half

Green Tea, Mochi Quality: ♥♥♥♥♥

Sweetness Level (Real sweet!): ♥♥♥♥♥

Overall Rating: ♥♥♥♥ and a half

Lastly, here’s another shot of Green Tea Patbingsu for ur enjoyment!

BUY ME, EAT ME, TASTE ME . . .

My 1st Bento Set Dinner (:

1st time trying Bento Set opp. Anam street.

Ordered the Saba fish set for my dinner.

Reasonably priced at 4,500 won.

Tadahhhh…

Here’s what comes with the set!

Saba fish, chicken (i think?), spaghetti, kimchi, seaweed & rice.

Will definitely try the others soon!

Most probably gg try out bulgogi & beef bento set! ^^

With love from 제주도: Day 2

Sleepy max.

Had only less than 3 hrs of sleep before waking up for Sunrise Peak.

Namguk Hotel Ajumma said sunrise is arnd 5:43am in Korean time.

So we headed out at 4am & all the roads were pitched black. Cab driver appears still nt awake and he drove in a zig-zag manner. Scareddd.

Reached the base of Sunrise Peak bout 4.45am.

With love from 제주도: Day 1

Our long awaited short getaway trip to Jeju-do finally arrived!!!

After say 10 weeks of sch? >.<

We took Eastar jet.

166,000 won for 2 way trip was considered ex cos we flew during the peak season. -.-

Us before departing!

Brandon, Jh, Me, Jz

Jz & Me

1st time experiencing taking a bus to reach the airplane.

Welcome to Eastar Jet! ^^

If u think tt the weather was foggy in Seoul, Jeju-do was worst! ):

Entire journey took bout 50 minutes.

Managed to catch some rest on the plane. But woke up feeling restless.  ):

Upon arrival at Jeju airport, we encountered difficulty in renting a car as it’s during the peak season.

All cars were rented out, leaving us with the only option of hiring a taxi package.

Cost of taxi package with either a Mandarin/English speaking cab driver: 150,000 won per day for 8 hrs.

Expensive man!

Ended up we sought help from a very helpful lady over the information counter. She advised us how and whr to plan our daily journey, and even gave us the bus number to take to different locations.

She also helped us telephoned one of the cab drivers and managed to book a cab package for us on the 2nd day (End up we took Taixin & Cheryl’s rented car for Day 2 and Day 3).

Went for dinner before viewing Cheonjiyeon Waterfall with Cheryl, Taixin & Christiana.

 Had some feast tho’. Food was nt bad, with sambal fish, toufu, chicken & free side dishes.

Cheonjiyeon Waterfall is best viewed at night, as compared to the other waterfalls.

Looks eerie, no?

The Gals!

The Guys!

As we had to wake up real early the next day for the Sunrise Peak, we headed back to our accommodation thereafter.

 Our goshiwon livingtel mgr managed to help us secure an accommodation over in Jeju and here’s how it looks like.

Namguk Hotel Signboard

Namguk Hotel from the outside

50,000 won per night. 4 pax. Worth it?

Not really.

Ventilator & fridge ain’t working.

Floor was quite dirty.

Toilet floor was sandy.

No toiletries was provided. i.e. No shower gel, shampoo, conditioners, toothpaste etc.

Only towels and toilet rolls were given upon request.

Ohhh, forgot to mention tt the toilet light bulb fused on our last night stay! End up Brandon had to help change the lightbulb! -.-“

Traditional room

But it’s better than having no accomodation lah.

So, don’t complain yar! 😀

F-f-f-food Cravings

Aloha!

I’m back from my Jeju (제주) 5D4N trip!

Shall do up a few posts on Jeju sometime next week, I hope! ^^

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Anw, today’s post is abt FOOD!

Not the food in Seoul, but bout my cravings for S’pore food!

Here’s my list of food cravings. In no particular order.

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#1: Yakun Kaya Toast

Seriously best toast in S’pore.

No kiddin’.

Try it once & u’ll be addicted.

I’m hooked for now at least!

NOM NOM NOM!

#2: Roti Prata

I like the prata opp. bb's hse in Chinese Garden. Sooooo delicious with their GEE curry. YUMS!

#3: Eskimo Mini Bubble Milk Tea 

25% sugar level is jst purrrrrrfect! *SLURPS*

#4: KOI Bubble Milk Tea

Awww. I jst love bubble teas back in S'pore.

#5: Chicken Rice

To me, the sauce "cap", the rice fragrance & the tenderness of the chicken are very important!

#6: Char Siew Rice

Ahhh. I guess this is smthin I can eat evryday without being sian of it. Hee!

#7: Bengawan Solo Kuei Lapis

I am starting to fall in love with Kuei Lapis, all thanks to bb. Hee!

#8: Chilli Crab with Deep fried golden mantou

If u wanna truly feel like u’ve lived ur life, try it! Definitely no regrets!

WA! Photo look so good alr. Imagine eating it! Yummilicious!

Deep fried mantou is the best thing to dip into Chilli crab sauce!

#9: Song Fa Bak Kut Teh

Song Fa outlet opposite "The Central Mall"

 I WANNA HAVE SONG FA BAK KUT TEH NOW!

Imagine piping hot bak kut teh entering your mouth in a rainy weather. Siao liao. Hurhur. And You Tiao! Ahhhh~~

#10: Mommy’s homemade Beef Spaghetti

Mommy’s beef spaghetti is the best I’ve ever tried. Very much to my liking. Taste even better than restaurants! ^^

This is nt my mom's homemade spaghetti. I jst use this photo as an illustration.

#11: Bb’s mom homemade pancakes with ice cream, chocolate syrup, maple syrup & whipped cream

Awww. Really love the pancakes bb's mom made. So delicious!

#12: Cinnamon Bread from a Jap bread store in Ion Basement 4

Oooh. Like the taste of their Cinnamon bread. Yummy! Price are cheap too!

#13: Laksa

Hot & spicy & evrything nice! ^^

#14: Fried Kuay Teow

Wah liew. Jst by looking at the photo makes me salivate alr! -.- Although nt say v healthy, but I still wanna have it whn I'm back!

#15: MOS Yakiniku Rice Burger

At mere S$4, I'm very willing to have it for my lunch/dinner! ^^ Beef taste really good!

#16: Tiong Bahru Market Nasi Lemak

TIONG BAHRU MARKET HAS THE BEST NASI LEMAK. IT’S THE BEST I’VE EVER TRIED! AND IT’S CHEAP LAI SAI!

Their chilli paste are v special!

#17: Chinatown & Tiong Bahru Market Chwee Kueh

I really loveeee the Chwee Kueh from both Chinatown & Tiong Bahru market. Tastes the best imo.

Chwee Kueh is literally steamed rice cake. It is best served with hot preserved radish relish and chilli paste.

I can have 6-8 pcs at during breakkie/dinner. Hee! Really delicious! REALLY MUST TRY!

#18: Hong Kong Cafe Sesame & Peanut Rice balls 

Rice balls accompanied by Ginger Soup. 맛이다! ^^

#19: Marutama Ramen with Sliced Char Siew

YESSSSSSS!

THIS IS THE BASKETBALL RAMEN I’VE BEEN CRAVING FOR!

I tried their in-house specialty ramen only once & yet the thought of having it keeps lingering around for 1 yr plus. That’s how nice it is to me yar. >.<

Seriously imo, it’s the BEST RAMEN I’ve ever tried!

Not say v cheap tho’. Bout S$16 with an egg.

So take ur time to finish up the ramen. Imagine they have 160 strands of ramen, so it comes up to bout S$0.10 per strand. LOL! Jst joking. :p

Ohhhh, not only their egg looks good, it taste soooooooo good too!

Ahhhhh~~ I soooo wanna eat Basketball Ramen!

#20: Ding Tai Fung Xiao Long Baos

Ooooh Yeahhhhh. I can eat all 10 by myself! Grow fat & shit! Haha!

Dippin' it in vinegar sauce tastes sooooo heavenly!

#21: Durians

I LOVEEEEEEE DURIANS !!!!!!

I WILL GO FOR GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL DURIAN BUFFET WHN I’M BACK.

I longed for Durians all the time. The taste of it jst makes me go Waaaaaaaaa…

肥一点也OK啦！嘻嘻！

Also, I love Four Seasons Durian pancakes & Durian mochi too!

This hot durian pancake is made on-the-spot with inner D24 icy cold filling. Back in S’pore, I always have ’em once a week at Tiong Bahru branch! Keke.

Tiong Bahru Branch

Durian pancakes. Crispy on the outside!

And Mooncake Festival will be coming soon in another few month’s time!

It’s an awesome chance for me to lay my hands on their Durian Mooncakes too!

Think snowskin filled with icy durian fillings.

Amazinggggggg . . .

I bought Four Season's Durian Mooncakes last yr. Hee.

Amazingggg durian taste!

Alrights, my cravings list shall end here!

This post is like a food porn.

HAHAHAHAHA! 😀

Daiso Hair Rollers

As mentioned previously in my hair perming post few weeks back, I was rather dissatisfied with the outcome of my perms.

So I decided to get cheap hair rollers from Daiso to make my hair wavy a ‘lil. Wore it to sleep till next morning. A ‘lil uncomfortable to slp in tho’.

So, did it work for me?

Yes, hair rollers works!

My hair was curly and bouncy the next morning, and the curls lasted all day without any hair serum or hair wax.

2,000 won for 7 hair rollers.

Worth it?

U bet it works! 😀