Hi everyone! Hope you're having a great Saturday!! So far the day has been good for me~ I've rearranged the furniture in my room and it looks a lot bigger, watched a lot of Olympics of course, and Korea has been doing well!! LOL, my family and I get more worked up about Korea winning than the US x) Right now we're watching handball: Korea v. Spain, and it is INTENSE. They're in OT right now...xP I'll probably know the results at the end of this post.
Anyways, yesterday I went to the best place after my SAT class. My mom treated me out to korean shaved ice at a korean cafe called Sol Levante!! You might have heard of the k-cafe Paris Baguette. I still like that one better but Sol Lev was still nice. And they're patbingsu (shaved ice) is AMAZING ^^
What's patbingsu? THE BEST ICE CREAM IN THE WORLD. Here's some pictures I took of ours:
yumyum, so delicious. Patbingsu is pretty much korean "ice cream" but really it's shaved ice with sweet condensed milk and sweet red bean sauce. That's the basic part. Then most people nowadays add lots of different fruits (above its mangoes, kiwis, pineapple, and strawberries), mochi (the sweet chewy things that Japan has, so good), and any type of ice cream on top. All that white sauce you see is the condensed milk, really sweet milk. And the reddish-brown sauce you see are the red beans. They're REALLY good, sweet too! Basically, this dish is just a sweet, yummy, delicious...
mess.
This is after we mixed it all up, still yummy but not as pretty looking :) Oh god...I want some right now♥
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| here's a spoonful! mango, kiwi, red bean, ice, mochi ♥ |
Patbingsu isn't the only thing at the cafe though! Mainly there's bread, but also there's pretty cakes and cookies!
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| breadbreadbread...so much bread. |
See those little metal things in the front? Those are..what do you call them..clampers? Anyways you take a tray or bag and use the "clampers" to grab the bread. The bread is pretty much on display on the tables, freshly baked :)
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| cakes! |
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| bear cookies |
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this is the bread we bought: some apple pie bread on the top,
mocha roll cake in the middle, and some nutty crumble bread
on the bottom |
This is some of the seating: my favorite spot, the couches. They're comfy :)
Well, we finished our patbingsu! All of that deliciousness gone in a minute~ If you ever come by a korean cafe, definitely go in and eat some patbingsu or buy some bread. Patbingsu is seasonal though, only summer :(
Hope you liked all the pictures and the food!! Have a g'day peeps!
ps. the handball game is still going on, the score is so close!
First words you see, "A Great Movie.." and that is so true. I actually just watched this tonight with my brother and dad. It's old, 1999, but it was just so good! Sometimes I think some old movies are somehow better than the ones that come out today. These days producers and writers mainly come up with plot lines full of action in order to draw in a lot of audience, but back then, even the inspirational, "based-on-a-true-story" movies could be successful. October Sky is just really inspiring, especially for someone that has expectations placed upon them yet they want to do what makes them happy, and it's not what is expected. I'll give a brief summary: Homer Hickens (hopefully I spelled it write) lives in town where coal mining is pretty much everyone's occupation. It's a generally small town and everyone becomes a coal miner, except for the few that get out into the world with football scholarships to college. Homer's father is the town boss of the coal mining business and since his older brother received a scholarship, Homer is expected by his father to take to the mining business. Yet Homer wants something more out of his life. This movie takes place during the time when Russia launched Sputnik and the great outer space was beginning to be explored. Homer sees Sputnik race across the sky one night, and his life is changed forever. He now chases after the dream of making rockets to fly and ultimately go to college to perhaps go into space. But what hinders his dream are his father's expectations which expect Homer to stay in the small town and take over the business after his father. This is a truly inspiring story of a young boy chasing after his dream. The main message I got was to follow what you are passionate about and that will lead you to a career with something you love. I still have to find that passion and I hope I do someday soon. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up. This is definitely a good movie to watch though! I highly recommend it :)
