[KOREA] HOW TO MAKE RAPPOKI?

2nd recipe on blog

라뽁이

RAPPOKI

combination of ramyeon and toppoki

ingredients :

Oden ( korean fish cake)

Ramyeon ( korean noodle) 

Eggs

Cheese

Garlic

Onion

Leek

Soup:

800ml water with 5 tbs of fish sauce

or if you have lots of time you can use

Dashi stock ( seaweed / dried fish stock)

Seasoning :

1 tbs soysauce

2 tbs sugar

4 tbs of gochujang ( korean chilli paste )

1 tbs of gochugaro ( koran chilli flakes)

1 tbs sesame oil

Garnish:

Sesame seeds

1. Cut all your ingredients into pieces, and chopped garlic well

2. Mix soup with all seasoning except the sesame oil

3. Put slices toppoki, oden, onion and chopped garlic

4. After bubble comes, put the noodle in

5. After noodle is half-cooked, put the sesame oil inside

6. Sprinkle some leek

7. Put cheese on top

8. After cheese melting, turn off the heat

9. Serve it hot, you also can put boiled egg or cook the egg together after put noodle inside, sprinkle leek and sesame seeds as the last step

VOILA

It tastes even better than in tteokpokki town HAHA if the rapokki getting cool, heat it up. And if the soup is drained, put some hot water inside and add lil more seasoning.

Have a try guys!

[KOREA] PAIK COFFEE

Coffee shops in seoul are like everywhere, every small alley, every corner of the street, everywhere. Yesterday after i fulfilled my fried chicken craved, i passed on little coffee shop with eyecatching colour named,

PAIK COFFEE

The store is very small, just has around 10 seats. But one that attracted me is many people queue for this. So me and Ci Put decided to try. No wonder why people queueing for them. The price is cheap, compared with other local coffee shop.

아이스빠나나마키아또

 BANANA MACCHIATO

₩3500

Suprisingly good, quite strong banana taste but they just use essence not real banana and the coffee so bold nom!

Taste 9/10

아이스아메리카노

 ICE AMERICANO

라지 large size

₩2000

and here most affortable ice americano with decent taste. The coffee shot is strong. Even the price is cheap but i think the quality of coffee is good

Taste 9/10

I curious with their fruid edition

Will come back soon!

You can see the address here :

( P.S Google Maps totally helpful )

PAIK COFFEE

207-1 Donggyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul

How to get there :

By TRAIN,  Hongik University MRT Station exit 2.

after exit turn left, find a crossroad turn right, first traffic light turn left into an alley, go straight

[KOREA] SULLIAN BINGSOO

Another bingsoo restaurant review! Yesterday i just tried one in Hongdae named, 

SULLIAN

Actually we wanted to order Berry cheese bingsoo but too bad its not available

TT.TT

초코빙수

CHOCO BINGSOO

₩9000

well it not as gorgous as it looked. That chocolate i thought choco fudge but that just brownies and choco sauce i expected for real choco sauce but... thats choco condensed milk. Just ok lah

Taste 7/10

카야치주토스트

KAYA CHEESE TOAST

₩5000

wuuu kaya with melting chewy cheese dip in whip creme dayum!

Taste 8.5/10

#mirrorselfiè

Well for me SULBING still win my heart.

You can see the address here :

( P.S Google Maps totally helpful )

SULLIAN

HONGDAE BRANCH 
346-40 Seogyo-dong Mapo-gu, Seoul ( 2ND FLOOR )

How to get there :

By TRAIN,  Hongik University MRT Station exit 9.

Go straight, second alley turn left. Its in your right, you'll find bingsoo banner, get in and go to 2nd floor

[KOREA] TTEOKPOKKI TOWN

Seoul has many town inside. Town inside town? HAHA well... wedding town, jjeon (korea pancake) town, and one that i've visited tteokpokki or rice cake town. It's like an alley with all tteokpokki restaurants along the road. Actually i watched a video by sweet and tasty about tteokpokki town, they tried like 3 restaurant but one that attracting is jajangtteokpokki in,

I LOVE SINSADONG

This restaurant is the most crowded one compared with others. No wonder you can see many actress and actors came here.

If you dont understand menu in Hangul, you can ask for english menu and the waiter will give you an iPad :p

first timelapse photo

Portion for 4

짜장떡볶이

JAJANGTTEOKPOKKI

Jajang sauce pan with tteokpokki, fish cake, fried dumpling, egg, and instant noodle

₩21000

For 4 

OMG ITS INCREDIBLEEEE!!! jajangsauce is sweet yet spicy and toppings that win my heart is fried mandu / dumpling, also has not anything inside but but ♡♡ #speechless and also half cooked noodle never fail me yes!

Taste 9.5/10

For can add additional

MOZARELLA CHEESE +₩3000

RAMYEON +₩1500

FRIED MANDU +₩3000

HAPPY FACES 

You also can take photo with cute big pot of tteokpokki and friends :3 

You can see the address here :

( P.S Google Maps totally helpful )

TTEOKPOKKI TOWN
I LOVE SINDANGDONG
302-4 Sindang 1-ildong, Jung-gu, Seoul

How to get there :

Cheonggu MRT Station Exit 1, turn left, go straight till you find big cross road, turn left twice.

[KOREA] MANGWON TRADITIONAL MARKET

Living in Korea is not as expensive as many people think. Here in this post, i will share my personal place for buying daily groceries. If you cook by yourself at home is super much cheaper and even cheaper than Indonesia! Bring your groceries budget to your nearest traditional market, and here one near my house, named

망원시장

MANGWON SIJANG

( sijang = traditional market )

it like super long alley, very clean and convenience. You can find everything vegetable, meat, clothe, even restaurant and traditional street food inside.

Korea is famous with its super expensive fruit, but not here in Sijang, like Peach here you can get with only ₩3000/basket ( around 1kg) but in the supermarket twice more expensive

For vegetable, its also cheaper than supermarket but not so cheap like in sijang around ₩500 cheaper

Fruit here very very seasonal, like strawberry you can find around march-may spring period but when it comes to june, everybody hunts for watermelon and peach and change again depends on the season

For meat, also much cheaper same as fruit, you can find pork, beef, chicken, and even fresh seafood and not all store using Kg system usully in korea they use,

1 근 geun = 600 grams

1 마리 mari = 1 piece ( usually for seafood)

After looking for groceries you must be hungry, in the middle of the alley, you can find 1 super crowd restaurant named,

손칼국수

SONKALGUKSU 

Hand made cut noodle

You can see making process 

Join the crowd

자장면

JAJANGMYEON

black bean paste noodle

₩3000

what a big portion! You can share like for two people but here everybody eat 1 bowl by themselves hem. Jajangmyeon very delicious with sweet black bean paste, some pork slices and potatoes. The noodle itself very chewy and fresh and long.. HAHA

Taste 9/10

칼국구

KALGUKSU

original cut noodle

₩2500

For this original taste served with pork broth and garnished with some green onion and seaweed. Taste very soft, simple, and yummy.

Taste 8.5/10

See? It was like 9 PM but many people still come to the market

SNACK TIME

Finally i found original korean version of kkulddak, super long queue, and many many flavour serves

Choose your size, choose flavour, and they will put toppoki on top of your stick.

SMALL SIZE

₩3000

Omg! So crunchy yummy even better than kkuldak. I tried sweet cheese and honey spicy both are yummy

Taste 8.5/10

Traditional market in Korea is not the same as in Indonesia, dirty and fishy smell. If you boring with tourism object destination, you can put this on your visit list! 

You can see the address here :

( P.S Google Maps totally helpful )

MANGWON MARKET
How to get there :
Mangwon MRT Station Exit 2