Korean School Lunch Update

Like I said, Wednesday lunches are always special! Wednesday, December 12, 2012 (from bottom to top, left to right): shrimp friend rice with tomato sauce (새우볶음밥과 토마토소스), soy bean paste soup (근대된장구), radish kimchi (총각김치), chicken wings, yogurt drink (요구르트)! Bon appetit! 잘 먹겠습니다!

close up of the fried rice after i mixed it up

A Typical Tuesday

I'm really really going to try to keep up with this. After all, it's not like I have tons of money saved up to show for my 3 years in Korea. Yes, I have pictures, but those are getting fewer and fewer too. I just read my friends' blogs and got motivated! So...here I am, sitting alone in the office...blasting my Jango Christmas Pop channel...and writing in my blog. It's rare for me to be the only one in the office and I'm not complaining! I enjoy this "me time." L is at the teacher's yoga club meeting. J is ... probably in a meeting with the 5th grade teachers. C is always popular: she's like superwoman and other teachers know it. S is teaching his after-school classes. On a typical Tuesday, I am happy. Why? I see my 2 most difficult classes on Monday and Tuesday, then I don't have to see them again until next week. Typical Tuesdays can also be Tiring Tuesdays, but they're nothing compared to Monster Mondays; Seriously, these kids can bring out the monster in me. The Monday blues probably don't help either. ;)

Last Saturday, I visited my uncle's new apartment and stayed the night. I went out to a pizza and pasta dinner with him and his family on Saturday. They took me to a hipster restaurant somewhere close to Hongdae. It was called Ci Vediamo and I tried my first ever samgyeopsal pasta. The sauce tasted like a mixture of olive oil sauce and dwenjang (even the pasta sauce was a fusion of the West and Asia). It was delicious and not greasy like samgyeopsal normally is! I'll have to remember that dish when I'm craving samgyeopsal and pasta, but am too realistic to eat both. >.< Here are some pictures stolen from someone's Naver blog.

We also ate a salad pizza and a gorgonzola pizza. Am I the only one who didn't know honey is sprinkled on gorgonzola pizza?! The salad pizza was my favorite of the 2 pizzas though. It was a good mixture of deliciously greasy pizza and fresh salad. Here's a picture, but ours included radicchio. Yum!

 It's 4:37. As a foreign teacher, I should have been out of here 7 minutes ago! S is going to help me shop for a padded winter coat. Happy shopping and happy Tuesday!

Korean School Lunch Update

Today's lunch was excellent. I really enjoyed the chicken tenders with mustard sauce. The mustard sauce was spicy! Yum.

Friday, December 7, 2012 (clockwise from top left corner):
chicken tenders with mustard sauce (치킨텐더),
stir-fried zucchini (호박볶음),
radish kimchi (총각김치),
apple slices (사과),
clam and radish soup (바지락무국),
and brown rice (현미밥)

Korean School Lunch Update

We had Vienna sausages today. Just a tidbit: My students get a kick out of calling me "vienna teacher" because my name is so similar to "vienna." I don't think it's that similar, but I'm a good sport.

Thursday, December 6, 2012 (clockwise from top left dish):
Vienna sausages (비엔나양송이볶음),
kimchi (김치),
fried fish with spicy sauce (코북어강정),
sweet pumpkin rice cake (호박찰시루떡),
seaweed soup (미역국),
and rice (보리밥).

Korean School Lunch Update

It's Wednesday!! And the lunch ladies didn't disappoint.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 (clockwise from top left dish):
radish kimchi (깍두기),
waffle with whipped cream,
tangerine,
egg and green onion soup (계란실파국),
kimchi fried rice (김치볶음밥)

Korean School Lunch Update

Yay! Today, they served japchae. I love it when they serve things I've been craving.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 (clockwise from top left dish):
japchae (잡채),
radish kimchi (총각김치),
sweet and sour shrimp (새우탕수),
banana,
soybean paste soup (아욱된장국),
and rice (흑미밥)

Korean School Lunch Update

It's been a while since I updated about my school lunches. Today's lunch was okay. My favorite was the kimchi stew because my friend and I was craving it two days ago and BAM, we had it for lunch within the week. :)
Monday, December 3rd, 2012 (from bottom to top, left to right): rice (차수수밥), tuna kimchi stew (참치김치찌개), meatballs (떡갈비강정), radish kimchi (깍두기), fried and marinated squid (오징어귀채볶음), and a gold kiwi for dessert!