Sweet Potato Korean Style 군고구마

I  probably can't say much today. I have to go to class in an hour, have to check my homework, take a shower and eat. So Korean sweet potatoes....Can't say why I brought this up... I just felt like eating one right now.

First of all, Korean sweet potatoes are different from American. Its not orange inside, but its white. And its amazing how it tastes.

In homes we usually boil our sweet potatoes. However, we burn it in fire outside. Well, that  is how our parents did it. Right now we have these black round "thing" with fire inside cooking it for us.

Its pretty cheap and tasty. No, actually very tasty.

However, this can be done in homes as well. Just put your sweet potatoes in the oven. But use foils so that the potatoes become burn on the skin. (probably cause cancer, but... it taste good... <3)


And wala!

yummy potatoes!!!


You can also get them in Korean restaurants. Some places in Korea give free potatoes while you cook your meat.

Probably the most rushed post ever, but I hope it made you people hungry!

Cafe culture in Korea *.*

Cafe culture in Korea.



If you visit Korea , I'm sure that you will be astonished by too many cafe .
There are as many as 3000 major brand coffee house in Korea !!(Caffe bene, Hollys coffee, Tom n Toms, The coffeebeans, Angelinus, Starbucks ...)
Plus, there are countless small cafe.

You may not be surprised but The south Korea's area is just half of California's.
It seems that someone crumpled tons of cafe and put into small area.

I don't know how to express this :(
I think Korea has the most numerous coffee house per area in the world and also has the most developed cafe culture.

-This is Caffe bene . It is ranked No.1 cafe in Korea for its number. It has about 660 franchises.



Korean people go to cafe just for drinking coffee.
We could rest, study, work and chat with other people for a long time in a coffee house.
Coffee house provides the place that people stay.
There are new word 'Coffice' and 'Cafebrary' that is conbined coffee+office and cafe+ library .
As a university student , I often stay at cafe to do my homework, chat with my friends.
Whenever I hang around with my friends and don't know where to go or what to do , we just go to a cafe.
You could use coffee house for your place as much as you want with small amount of money in Korea.




These days Korean people visit unusal cafe.
All of these cafe have their own special stuffs.
Recently I visited an special unique cafe . There are tons of memos in that cafe, so I wrote my memo and hung it with string.
The cafe has 100days mail box so that customers write postcard and put it into that box , then the cafe send their postcards 100 days later.

- this is my boyfriend's memo.

-This is the picture of my boyfriend . He was writing postcard to me waiting our drinks.
I'll be received 100 days later.

Why do Koreans say Niga?

Today I read an article about an African American English teacher in Korea, punching an elder...

I heard it was because the elder said "shut up please". According to the people on the bus, the African American was talking really loud in the bus. Talking loud in the bus isn't a proper thing to do. Its like farting in the elevator. So... The African American got mad and punched the elder. I guess saying "shut up please" isn't a proper thing to do as well. But, I assume he saw it in the movies and followed it -.- Since Korean elders, well a lot of them lack English. However, punching elders, isn't a proper thing to do as well. There probably was another reason that he got really mad.




According to few comments, I read that the African American thought the grandfather was racist saying "niga". Well, niga in Korea means.. "니가" you!... So, he had it completely wrong. I don't think old Koreans know what niga means in English anyways -.- Most grand parents didn't go to school.

As for tourist, I hope you people don't feel bad cause someone said "niga". Its just a word in Korean, that means you!. Moreover, the Chinese use the word "nigee". It was pretty funny how my white friend was very angry at his Chinese friends for saying "nigee". I forgot what it means, but for sure its not the racist comment we all know about.

Just wanted to post this, so that future misunderstandings are somewhat prevented.

Oh if they start saying "gae se ki" (개새끼) "mi chin nom"(미친놈), they are dissing you. So, you can go say "mae rong"(메롱) to them.