Tuesday 31 May 2011

Korean Breakfast Part 4 @ Kiswire's Training Centre

Today is the final day in Korea. Woke up as early as 5:00am to pack everything up and prepare to return to Malaysia.  Before catch a plane at 11:00am we will sample our last breakfast in Korea. 


Fish Cake and Vegetable Soup
Fried Light Salted Fish
Radish mix with Sesame Oil & Seed
Jwipo Muchim
Jwipo Fish meat cooked with chilli red pepper paste and sesame 

Stir Fried Anchovies " Myulchi Bokkeum"

We had a wonderful time in Korea. All those food were really delicious and most of all we will definitely missed Ahjumma's cooking.  

Kamsa Ham Ni Da….

Kiswire Training Centre, 
92, Dalmaj-gil 117 Beonna -Gil, 
Haeundae Ku, Busan, 
Korea

Monday 30 May 2011

Korean Breakfast Part 3 @ Kiswire's Training Centre

Fourth day in Korea, we are already accustomed to Korean Food. Every day waiting for new dish to be serve especially for breakfast.


Dwenjang Seafood with Mushroom

Fish cooked like asam pedas, quite similar but has that korean seasoning taste.


Same as above, but with ojingo or octopus. See how creative they cut the octopus.



Cucumber Kimchi & Chilli Dried Shrimp…again. Anyhow still love it especially the shrimp.  

Kiswire Training Centre, 
92, Dalmaj-gil 117 Beonna -Gil, 
Haeundae Ku, Busan, 
Korea

Unagi Tonpuri @ Shinsegae Food Hall, Haeundae, Busan

We are very grateful to our president due to his generosity to buy us a pair of sport shoe as a souvenir to bring back to Malaysia. He informed to us to choose whatever sport shoe that we desired regardless of the price at the World Largest Departmental Store called Shinsegae or in English “ New World”. In addition to floor upon floor of designer brands, you will also find a spa, roof garden and 60-tee golf range. 

Shinsegae Deparment Store - World's Largest
I let all my colleagues to choose first before I decided to pick one adidas sport shoe.  I pick up the striking red colour shoe that can be use for running and hopefully cycling. This is the latest design called clima cool and I believe mine was the cheapest among the others but still fetch the price around KRW 129,000 (RM361).


Clima Cool Adidas
After completed shopping we opted to dinner at Shinsegae Food Centre. Want to try Japanese Food at Korea so I ordered Unagi Tonpuri because I saw generous amount of unagi at the set box. The price about KRM13,800 or RM38.50

Unagi Tonpuri


Banchan - Pickled Garlic, Slice Ginger and Radish
The set consists of Grilled eel or unagi with Miso Soup, steamed rice and of course Banchan. I cannot resist the temptation of grilled eel. Every time I go to Japanese Restaurant, I always ordered Unagi either sets of sushi. That tasty sauce they drizzle over it…Simply delightful, I’m drooling for it now.

Spacious & Confortable Food Hall

Shinsegae Department Store, 
Haeundae Gu, Busan 
Korea

Saturday 28 May 2011

Roasted Chest Nuts @ Busan Jin Market, Busan

Strolling at Busan Jin Market, we stop by at sijang to buy some Korea t-shirt to bring back home for souvenir. Pass by one street vendor selling roasted chest nut. Saw the chestnuts were roasting, giving off such an aroma that make me standing around, transfixed, waiting to have a taste. Look enticing and straight away bargaining to buy some.  

2,000 Won ...
Basket of Roasted Chest Nuts
Chest Nuts Fruit

Sweet & Naked Glory
Chest Nuts also can easily find in Malaysia, but the only different compare with Korea is the size. Here everything is rather big size, apple, strawberry, pear and not least the chest nuts too. Roasted Chest Nuts after peels off the skin looks like small brains. It’s rather dry, grainy texture and slightly sweet, starchy taste. 

Friday 27 May 2011

Kimbap @ Department Store, Busan

Spring season in Korea make me constantly craving for food, still hungry even after dinner and would like to munch something especially during supper time. Luckily we bought some Kimbap from nearby department store. You can find this dish almost everywhere, department store, convenience store, restaurant and street vendor. Kimbap is a popular Korean dish made from steamed white rice and various others ingredients normally vegetables, rolled in kim ( sheet of dried laver seaweed ).  Taste good, try them once and crave them forever after. But please, do not confuse this food with sushi.


Korean Kimbap

Ko Gu Ma Matang @ Shinsegae, Haeundae, Busan

This is one of the best Korean Traditional snack.  It’s chunks of fried potato coated in translucent hot brown syrup and sprinkled with black sesame seed. Matang definitely looks like shiny candy. They are sweet and crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.  Do not forget to bite this snack because you will enjoy the sweet, fluffy, creamy sweet potato that melts in your mouth not in your hand. 


Mouth Watering Matang
Shinsegae,  
Haeundae Gu, Busan 
Korea

Thursday 26 May 2011

Seafood Buffet @ The Maris Restaurant, Busan

Today, the Company’s headquarter arrange for us to eat at one of the popular seafood restaurant in Haeundae. We will have a buffet. This will be my 2nd time to visit this restaurant.  Really big place, can occupy more than 500 people at one time. So many types of food, I believe more than 100 dishes.

But above all, this restaurant is so famous for its King Alaskan Crab Leg and Giant Octopus. Besides that, seafood fans also can wolf down the colds items like mussels, prawns, salmons and snails. Most of the food are really delicious, so many flavors you can indulge at one place.  I want to spoil myself tonight. Totally insane, I wish I could try all of it.

Nice Setting & Modern Ambience

Varieties of Food

King Alaskan Crab Leg

Amaze of Giant Octopus
Fresh Cut Salmon Sashimi
Monkfish Liver Shark's Fin

A cold eel with various seasonings
Fresh Fruits Juice
La, Deesse Noire


Gadinal Slice
And the dessert, marvelous.

Please check out some video footage that i took at this restaurant :





Do not miss to visit this restaurant if you visiting Busan, Price is remarkably reasonable around KRW30,000/head about RM84




The Maris Seafood Restaurant, 
2F, 1497-2, Jwa-dong, 
Haeundae Gu, Busan 
Korea

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Koguma or Sweet Potato Fries @ Gukje Market, Nampodong, Busan

Walk through the night at Gukje Market. Nothing is more important than food on travel. Many kinds of fantastic food are prepared in Nampodong. You can find food alley called “Mokja GolMok” means Let’s Eat Alley is filled with food stands selling dukbokki, Buchimge and my target for the night is Koguma or Sweet Potato Fries.  Koguma is very delicious snack. They are sweet and super crunchy.  Very good companion while watching movie or tv.

Many Stall Selling Koguma

Koguma

Gukje Market 

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Korean Breakfast Part 2 @ Kiswire's Training Centre

Third day in Korea, today I will focus more at Hyrope Factory. We need to benchmark and find positive points to implement in Malaysia Factory.  Start of the day, can’t wait what in store for us for breakfast.


Dwenjang Soup
Dwenjang Soup  with Fish Meat. I must taste the soup first before anything else. Really nice hot tasty soup. Slurping yummy.

Omelette

This is not Ojingo Bokkeum, but more like kimchi mix with octopus . Correct if I’m wrong probably this dish called Ojingo Muchim.


Fish Cake with Sesame Oil
Frankly speaking, I love fish but I hate fish cake or fish ball.


Chilli Dried Shrimp with pumpkin seed. Really delicious, asked the ahjumma to have a second helping. 

Kiswire Training Centre, 
92, Dalmaj-gil 117 Beonna -Gil, 
Haeundae Ku, Busan, 
Korea

Maxim Mocha Coffee @ Korea

Beside soju, Korean people like to drink coffee. One of the popular and rated No1 in Korea is maxim mocha coffee. But the problem is the packing is so tiny, for Malaysian we need at least 3 to 4 packets equivalent to 1 packet of Ali cafĂ©.  Even small, it still have strong & rich roast flavor and aroma that will give you immediate confidence to charge of the day. Really need to take some from training centre to bring back home.


Manufactured by Dongsuh Foods Corp.

Sunday 22 May 2011

Exotic Beondegi @ Busan Jin Market, Busan

After completed training we stopped by at sijang or street market around Busan Jin. I’ll find myself for adventurous search of exotic Korean snack called Beondegi. It’s a stewed and seasoned silkworm pupae served by street vendors.  First time I ate this tiny creature in 2004 during football match in SuYeong, Busan. 

Beondegi or Silkworm
Texture of SilkWorm
The smell of Beondegi kinda dirt-like but if you take it from a canned version it has a hot dog kind of aroma. Looks crunchy but it’s not…and the taste was quite memorable. The exterior texture is like a thin shrimp shell that you can easily chew. Inside was a little mushy with an extra fine grainy texture with taste like a mild protein taste of peanuts.

Street Vendor at Busan Jin Market

Street Vendor, 
Busan Jin Market,
Busan, Korea