Some interesting food choices in Korea

Have you ever had a craving for some steak & pasta in a waffle cone?? How about some chocolate cheese?? If you have then you should get to South Korea ASAP! These are 2 of the things you could try here if you wanted... Most of the food here is so good, but there are some very different combinations. And just in case you think I'm kidding, here are some pics!

Some of the yummy pasta and waffle cone combinations

Andrew enjoying his choco cheese!

Experiences in Korea

Last week a few funny/weird things happened here. I've become used to things like this over the last 5 months but these have stuck out a bit!

Last Saturday I went to McDonald's for the first time since I've been in Korea. While looking at the menu and deciding what to have I saw a few things you can only get in South Korea. The first was a shrimp burger, but this didn't sound good to me! Then I saw the funniest thing, a 'crazy hot chicken folder' ! That's the real name from the menu - it was basically a chicken breast in a taco/pita bread. This sounded tempting (!?) but instead I had the always safe McChicken and fries and it tasted exactly the same as in Canada! One of our friends had the crazy hot chicken folder and he said it wasn't even that hot and it fell out of the folder! That crazy chicken...

Then at school on Wednesday some of the teachers were frying up some new potatoes that had just been brought back from the farm. When they were ready they brought some out and called over Alysa, Manda and I to have some. We dug in because we were starving, like usual in the middle of the afternoon! But after one bite we realized that the fried potatoes were covered in white sugar! We thought it was salt, but no.... and FYI this is not a good combination!

And on Friday Manda and I stopped for a coffee at a new place that has opened near our school and were sitting there enjoying our drinks when all of the sudden Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' came on. I was like 'wow, I love this Christmas carol, but it's so not the season!' I think we were the only ones who realized it was a Christmas carol - too funny...

Anyway, it was a funny week.... more to come soon on my visit to the DMZ and other goings on.

The $18 cantaloupe!

This is something that I've been wanting to write about for a while, the crazy fruit prices here! Here's a picture with the price of a cantaloupe here:
Yes, that's 14,800 Korean won, or about $18 Canadaian, for one cantaloupe! It's comes with a nice bow and stand, but still... And this is actually a bit of a bargain, ealier in the spring they were about 25,000 won. Recently I think they've gone down to about 10,000 won, so I should probably snap them up while they're so cheap! haha...
And here's me with more fruit, in the top right corner you'll see what I think is called a dorian (??? not sure of spelling) and it's a steal at 56,000 won! And on the left, other melons ranging from 17,000 - 34,000 won.

So, long story short, I don't eat near as much fruit as I would like to here and right now I'm really missing all of the summer fruit from home!

Buddha's Birthday

Hey all! I'm still trying to get caught up with the blog, I'm only a little over a month behind! Haha.... hopefully in the next couple of weeks this will happen.

May 24 was a public holiday for Buddha's Birthday here and during that week there were a lot events and festivities planned to celebrate it. One of these was the Lotus Lantern Parade. My Dad was visiting during this time and we happened to be in the area of the parade while it was on, so we stopped to watch for a while. The lanterns were beautiful and there were hundreds of them. Here are some pics from the parade: