My Study Tour to Korea - Part 1

Hi and assalamualaikum... it's been so long since I update my last post.
So for this post, I would like to share my experience with one week study tour in Korea.

It was held by Korea Language House and Fully Guesthouse in collaboration with Talk To Me In Korean and You Are Here Cafe. You guys can check the pictures below.

Here are the links for Korean Language House, www.koreanlanguagehouse.com
and Talk To Me In Korean, www.talktomeinkorean.com

With our Korean teacher, Gahee who back to her hometown for holiday when we are in Seoul.

TTMIK tutor, Hyunwoo seonsaengnim 

In class session

Hyunwoo seonsaengnim (teacher) explaining something about Korean culture and words usage.

The consonants in Korean language

Three basic rules in writing Korean which are Man, Earth and Sun.

Inside You Are Here Cafe

In front of the cafe

Quiz session!!

Kekeke, with Kyunghwa seonsaengnim!!

Yeah, that's me... in the middle of answering the question.

Hyunwoo seonsaengnim with Seokjin seonsaengnim

End of session for first day!

With all students and teachers in front of You Are Here Cafe

With the performers of Gayageum (Korean traditional musical instrument)

With one of the performers, she's so pretty!!

Traditional Performances at KOUS (House of Korean Culture) in Daechi-dong, Gangnam.

More information of traditional performances in KOUS, can visit this website: www.kous.or.kr

Korea Festival Day at UPM Serdang

On 12th May 2013, Korean Language House had been a co-supporter for Korean Festival Day in UPM, Serdang, Selangor. This event was hold to promote Korean heritage and culture together with Hallyu Wave that happen in Malaysia.

From the photos below, you can see a few booth with a lot of interesting stuff like KPOP merchandise, Korean souvenir, Korean language lesson's books and Korean food.

You can see me at the food booth since I'm selling Kimbap (Seaweed Roll), Kimchi pancake and Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cake) there.  Hehehehe~ The most selling food on that day was tteokbokki because I cooked it so when the customer bought, it still hot.

Not only that, it also had traditional games and Hanbok trial for those who want to play the games and try the traditional costumes of Korea.

And not to forget, during the event, both our booth (Korean Language House and food booths) had a special guest, Erul AF. I may not know him but a friend told me that he won in a KPOP contest and represent Malaysia for season 2 of KPOP Star Hunt. Had a great time chating with him and share our passion towards Korea.

Ok, that's all for this post. Next will be about my trip to Korea with my parents on June 2013. Enjoy the pics~

If you have anything to ask related to Korean lesson or food, don't hesitate to ask or comment here.

Dim Sum Chef Restaurant

Assalamualaikum and Hi everyone... it's been a long time since my last post here...

So today I would like to show you a Dim Sum restaurant situated in Kota Damansara. I had been introduced by my teacher, Ms Jane as she said this is a Halal restaurant. So I went there on Sunday in last March with my family to try out the food especially dim sum.

Here is the address:

Dim Sum Chef

Dim Sum Restaurant

G-63A-G, Block G (Jalan Teknologi 3/9), 

Kota Damansara, 

Petaling Jaya 47810

Selangor

These are the foods that we ordered that time.

Plum Juice

Thai Style Beancurd Roll

Steam Glutinous Rice with Chicken

Beijing Style Spicy Dumpling

Shrimp Dumpling (Must Try!!)

Stir Fried Radish Cake

Portugese Style Egg Tart

Pumpkin Sago (Sweet and refreshing)

The food was good and delicious even though I didn't get to try all (Can't decide since all looks yummy!). Even my mother who is not fond with Chinese food, she ordered Stir Fried Radish Cake twice!

The place also look cozy and calm but it'll be pack during peak hour especially lunch time.

Having a great time spent there with good service from the staff and the chef himself. Till my next post~

Korean Cooking Session - Tuna Kimchi Stew (Chamchi Kimchi jjigae 참치 김치 찌개)

안녕하세요 여러분~

Hi guys!!

For today's cooking session, I'll show you how to make Kimchi stew or Kimchi Jjigae. This is the perfect dish if you really love to enjoy kimchi. As what I know, Korean love to add pork in this stew but as a Muslim for sure I will not put pork but instead I use tuna and beef. 

My favourite is with tuna so in this recipe I will share this type of kimchi stew.

First, let me introduce the ingredients. 

1 tbs cooking oil
1/2 of slice onion
1 cup of well fermented Kimchi
1 can of tuna

1/2 or 1 cup of kimchi water / water
1-2 tofu or soft tofu

spring onion to garnish
chili powder (if want more spicy)

Now, let's cook!!

1. Heat the pot and put the oil. 
2. Put the onion and stir till it golden brown then put the kimchi and stir for a while.
3. After that, put the can tuna in the pot and stir well.
4. Put kimchi water / water in the pot and let it for 3-5 minutes until it boil.
5. Put tofu inside the pot and stir a bit. 
6. Turn off the heat
7. When serve, garnish the stew with chopped spring onion. 
8. You can add chili powder when cook the stew if you want more spicy. 

Good luck and have a nice weekend~ 

Please comment if you have question or request for other recipes.

Till next time...