Archive for May, 2007

Day 8 in Korea

Ahah!! Finally! This is the final night of the 14th All Asians Debating Championship. Most teams left Korea the next day, but I stayed back at Long’s place to do more sight-seeing in Seoul 🙂

On this final night, we had our Closing Gala Party, held at the gymnasium in the English Village. Somehow, this party isn’t as ‘wow’ as we hoped it to be…even the other dinners were better *sigh* But the variety of food is still good 🙂
– Lunch

lunch day 8 korea

– Halal dinner

halal dinner day 7 korea

– Non-halal dinner

dinner day 8 korea

more dinner day 8 korea

I hope you enjoyed the posts on Korea. We’ll continue to keep this site updated from time to time! Stay tuned!

– Ruth

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Day 7 in Korea

I’m tired of typing SO much at one go! I’ll put up details of the 8 days of the tournament only… tralalalala…. 😛

– Halal dinner

dinner day 7 korea

– Non-halal dinner

non-halal dinner day 7 korea

Aside from more debates, the main event was the Cultural Night. We had fun snapping photos with people from all over Asia 🙂 It was a colourful night, with interesting costumes to admire 😉

– with a debater from Thailand

cultural night 1

– with a debater from Mongolia

cultural night 2

–  with debaters from Japan

cultural night 3

– with debaters from Vietnam & Bangladesh

cultural night 4

– with debaters from Korea

cultural night 5

– Ruth

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Day 6 in Korea

Ahah! Day 6 was out of the English Village! On this day, we had a free day where we could go for a tour around Seoul city! I had Sam as my tour guide, so we actually covered quite a lot of places together & at quite a bit of interesting food 🙂

We had breakfast at a place called ‘Kim Bap Heaven’ in town, on the way to Namdaemun Market. This was what Sam had; it’s called Bibimbap. It’s rice with loads of veggie in a claypot like dish, served with chilli! It’s spicy & the heat adds to the kick of the dish!

breakfast day 6 korea

This was what I ate, Deng Jang Jigae. I didn’t know how to order & what to order since EVERYTHING is written in Korean! Thanks to Sam, I had something to eat… this dish is tofu soup with clams & veggie, served with rice. It’s a traditional Korean dish that everyone should have when visiting Korea.

tien jng jige day 6 korea

This is the spread for breakfast! Kin chi & all else are served as complimentary 🙂

breakfast spread day 6 korea

After breakfast, we went to Namdaemun Market. This place is like the Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur, but it’s at least 8 times bigger! There are loads of clothes, shoes, bags, souvenirs, food, & ginseng!

ndm1 korea

ndm4 korea

This is a traditional dish in Korea; it’s rice cake cooked with chilli sauce & some veggie., called Ddukbokhee  😛

ndm2 korea

Ginseng are everywhere! Korea is famous for this 😉

ndm 3 korea

At every nook & corner of the street, you’ll find this- rice cakes. It’s a traditional food, served in an assortment of colours, taste, & toppings. It’s quite similar to our ‘mochi with ground peanuts’, but it’s slightly harder & more chewy…like the ‘ang ku kuey’.

ndm5 korea

I was very attracted to the pretty designs of the utensils that they sell in Korea. I wish I could have that in my house! Things aren’t tht cheap when converted to the Malaysian Ringgit, so I couldn’t afford to spend so much on such things that I don’t really need!

ndm6 korea

This is some fish-shape kuih….haha…i’ve no idea what it is, but I thought that it looked interesting 😉

ndm7 korea

There are plenty of fruits sold in Korea, some that I haven’t seen nor tasted before.

ndm8 korea

There are loads of street stalls around the market selling a variety of light food on sticks!

ndm9 korea

On our way to our next destination, we passed by Myeongdong,  a high-class shopping area that is filled with shopping complexes.

Myeongdong day 6 korea

This was our next destination, Gyengbokgung Palace. It looks very much like the Palaces in China, & it made me feel as if I was in China! Hahaha…

Gyeongbokgung Palace day 6 korea

After visiting the famous palace in Seoul, we moved on to Insadong, a traditional street filled with shops selling souvenirs, traditional items, food, & antiques. Here are some photos on the interesting stuff I came across in Insadong.

– Anyone wants a free hug?? This guy is giving it freely!

free hug day 6 korea

– Korean tea houses in Insadong

Korean tea house at insadong day 6 korea

Beondegi, boiled silkworms pupae

silk worms day 6 korea

Eating this was no joke! The juice that squirts out in the mouth is er…eeuuuww…

beondegi day 6 korea

After walking in Insadong, we went for dinner at some restaurant  to have the famous Samgyeopsal. It’s actually 3-layer meat served barbecued and eaten with vegetables and rice.

samgyeopsal day 6 korea

After dinner was more sight-seeing (Laurence, Sam & I) to Sinchon & Ehwa Women’s university area before we headed back to Paju.

– Ruth

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Day 5 in Korea

We had rounds 6, 7, & 8 this day. It was quite tiring, but the day ended with another social event. The main social event for this day was the Break Night Party at a nearby pub. I didn’t stay long in that place as it ws smokey & everyone was drinking. There are photos of the party, but I’m not gonna upload it here as it’s quite dark.

– Breakfast

We had rice, beancurd sheets with chilli, lychees, garden salad, ham slices, & sauteed potatoes plus a soup.

breakfast day 5 korea

soup breakfast day 5 korea

– Halal breakfast

halal breakfast day 5 korea

We took some photos with our opponents during 2 rounds of the debates as well. Here’s to share with all our readers!

– With team KIDS4 from Chung Ang University Korea

debaters from korea day 5

– With team BUFS3 from Beijing University of Foreign Studies

debaters from beijing day 5

These are the 2 teams that we defeated. We had 8 rounds all-together, but we won only 4 out of 8 rounds *sigh*

– Ruth

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Day 4 in Korea

Day 4 in Korea was filled with debates. Basically, on this day was rouds 3, 4, & 5, which concluded the day’s events.

– Breakfast

menu breakfast day 4 korea

breakfast day 4 korea

– Halal breakfast: fried rice, grilled salmon, tofu, pineapple cubes in syrup, bread, sauteed potatoes & vegetables, & spinach soup.

halal breakfast day 4 korea

– Lunch: macaroni, rice, apples, kimchi, pork fillets, crinkled cut fries, fresh garden salad with kiwi sauce as dressing, & vegetable cream soup.

lunch day 4 korea

– Halal lunch: pork fillet was substituted with fish fillet 🙂

halal lunch day 4 korea

Dinner wasn’t provided on day 4, so we actually packed some extra food from these meals & had it for dinner, alongside instant noodles, which we brought over from Malaysia.

– Ruth

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Day 3 in Korea

Since this site is not only about food, but about our adventures & experiences as the Perutbesi duo, I’ll upload pictures of people as well & hope that these pictures will add a special touch to our site 🙂

Our first 3 rounds of debates were held today. Breakfast & lunch were served in the English Village itself, while dinner was a grand one out of the village! Muahaha…

– Breakfast in the English Village: Rice, fired fish, potatoes. salad, tofu, & oranges.

breakfast day 3 korea

– Lunch: Spagetti in cream sauce & red italian sauce, cream of corn soup, pineapple cubes in syrup, rice with kimchi & meat cutlets.

lunch day 3 korea

The main event for this day was the Championship Dinner, held at the KINTEX, an exhibition place like the PWTC in Kuala Lumpur. Yeah, it’s only day 3 of our debates, but they had the championship dinner earlier as some were to leave the debates before the grand finals. In the championship dinner was the public speaking competition, which gave a kick to the event 🙂

Everyone was dressed nicely & it felt as if we were at the Oscar Awards Ceremony! Hahaha… food was well, only one word to describe it: GLORIOUS!

First, the dinner cutlery:

dinner cutlery day 3 korea

I had this little madness of taking photos of the cutlery. Somehow the neat arrangement & shine appeals to me! 😀

Now the food:

dinner day 3 korea

This is just one table of food. There were THREE tables nicely spreaded with FOOD! Oh food, glorious food!

– Halal food for dinner: Rice, glass noodles, veggie, mushrooms, & loads of sushi & sashimi!!

halal dinner day 3

– Soba, cold noodles on clear miso soup

soba day 3 korea

Ok, I know this plate is filled to the brim with everything on it. Basically, there’re sausages, tempura, dumplings, meat of all sorts, sushi, rice, & veggie! Oh, superbly delicious! I was thinking of heading for second round, but after this full plate of food, & another plate of fruits & dessert, I could hardly move, whatmore eat somemore! 😀

– Non-halal dinner.

non-halal dinner day 3 korea

– Dessert: (clockwise) watermelon, strawberry, orange tart, pineapple tart, creampuff, kiwi tart, chocolate cake, apple, grape, & walnut pie. *mouth waters*

dessert day 3 korea

Here are some pics of the people:

– Debaters from UMP: azwan, Ashwin, Farhana, Satya, Ruth, & Arvin.

championship dinner with UMP in korea

–  With the debaters from Japan & Vietnam: Ayami, ruth, Ets, Farhana, Nga, Long, Azwan, & Atsuki.

championship dinner with japanese in korea

–  With roommates from Bangladesh

roommates at championship dinner day 3 korea

– With Bumki

with bumki at championship dinner day 3 korea

– With Laurence

with laurence at championship dinner day 3 korea

This was basically all that happened in the Championship Dinner. There are loads of other photos, but I’ll not load it up here 😉 Stay tuned; coming up, day 4 in Korea (there are 11 days!)

– Ruth

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Day 2 in Korea

The debates didn’t start on our 2nd day in Korea, so basically, it’s another day of food & fun! Hehehe…this is the day where I made some new friends & we stuck together as a gang 😉

– Breakfast menu

menu breakfast day 2 korea

– The display of our breakfast

breakfast day 2 korea

Every meal that we have are buffet style. Each day, there will be 2-3 dishes of meat & veggie, one rice (either fried rice or white rice), one noodle, a salad, soup, & fruits. The variety is mouth-watering. Somehow, the food that we get at the English Village is very much Western style (with bits of Korean touch of course!). Food is in abundance when there is, & when no meals are provided for the day, one can just go hungry…cos the weather day is cold even though it’s end spring early summer!

– Lunch

lunch day 2 korea

For dinner that night, we had a banquet outdoors! It’s very cold outside, but the wide variety of food just makes a person forget about the chily condition 😉 There were 2 long tables of food laid out (halal, vegetarian, & non-halal). Yummy! 😛

– Halal dinner

halal dinner day 2

– Non-halal dinner

dinner day 2 korea

While I was in Korea for the debates, I made some new friends whom we stuck to as a gang. These fellas are realy nice & fun to be with. The championship isn’t all about debates after all; it’s about debating & gaining new friends & experiences through the exchange of ideas 😉
– Gang of friends in Korea (left-right: Azwan from UMP, Long from Vietnam, Bumki from Korea, Ruth from  UMP, Sam from Korea, & Farhana from UMP)

gang with azwan in Korea

– Left-right: Long, Laurence from Taiwan, Bumki, Sam, Ruth & Farhana

gang in korea

That’s all for day 2 in Korea. Coming up is day 3!

– Ruth

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Day 1 in Korea

In this post, I’d like to share with all our readers the beauty of creation, taken from the airplane. The first day at the Paju English Village, where we had our competition was without meals, so we had to buy our own food.

– I managed to catch the sunrise on the way to Korea. At that time, it was around 6.30am in Korea & the sunrise was gorgeous!

clouds korea

– A mash of pictures taken when we landed in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, & when we landed in Korea.

Clockwise: all UMP participants & officers at the KLIA before we left for Korea, transiting in Sabah for 1 hour, approaching the Incheon Internatinal Airport in South Korea, & at Daehwa bus stand waiting for the bus to Paju.

landing korea

As for lunch, we had sandwiches, the cheapest thing that we could find at the English Village in Paju. I had to pay 3,700 won (equivalent to RM15) for a sandwich, which I could get for roughly RM6 in Malaysia!

– Vegetarian sandwich

vegetarian sandwich paju

– Honey ham sandwich

honey ham sandwich paju

That’s all for Day 1 in Paju. I will upload more pictures & stories tomorrow! Stay tuned!

– Ruth

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Korea & food (Day 0)

Hello to all our faithful readers! Sorry for the delay in updates. I was in Korea for the 14th All Asian Debating Championship for the past 11 days (6-16 May). The competition lasted for 8 days, after which I decided to stay back in Seoul at a new-found friend’s place, to do some sight-seeing & to indulge in the various kinds of Korean delicacies 😉 In the next few posts, I’ll be posting a number of pictures of food & my adventure in Paju & Seoul 🙂 Enjoy!

Day ‘zero’ – at KLIA (5 May 2007)

The food at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) foodcourt ain’t that bad after all. It’s slightly pricey…around RM5 per plate of noodles, depending on type of noodles (but that is the norm in airports), but the portion you get & the taste is actually worthwhile 🙂

– Cantonese fried noodles

klia cantonese fry

– Mee goreng (indian style)

klia mee goreng

– Chicken rice

klia chicken rice

On the Malaysian Airlines (MAS)

We boarded the MAS 330 plane around 11.35 pm. On board, we were served 2 meals: supper & the following day’s breakfast. The food ain’t too bad, considering that it’s not some home-cooked food. Below are the assortment that I had:

– Fried fish with noodles (supper)

MAS supper

– Omelette with a sausage & hash brown

MAS breakfast

More food & adventure coming up in Day 1, Korea!

– Ruth

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Perutbesi in Korea…still :)

Hi everybody!! Forgive us for neglecting to upload this site of ours. I am currently in Korea & will only be back either on Monday or Tuesday. I’ve uploaded some photos of the Korea trip on my friendster site, so if you would want to check it out, do check it out there.  There are just too many pics to upload onto this site now & I dont have one software that I need on the computer here (at the computer lab in Paju English Village). I’ll touch-up this site as soon as I get back to Malaysia.  Do stay tuned!

– Ruth

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