So, during orientation we were served three meals a day, and snacks inbetween lectures. Breakfast usually looked more like lunch, so I stuck to Korean style Kellog's Corn Flakes...which got a little old after the 4th morning, but you have to take what you can get right?! I learned that at each meal, it was more like just filling my stomach enough to be satisfied.
Some days I would enjoy one or two choices, and some days they had no meat. On those days I usually ventured to the convenient store downstairs from the dorm & found something familiar looking to eat. That was also a hit or a miss. It seems that no matter what you eat in Korea...there's some smell or taste to it that's just "a little off" (if that makes any sense). So here are a few random pictures of what food & drinks are like in Korea:
tangerines are now my daily snack, chocolate is amazing here, apple juice tastes like perfume, & water tastes the same no matter what the brand is
pepsi, and any other sodas, are similar yet taste watered down a bit, and this meal was from the welcoming dinner...mainly ate the meat & rice
vending machines...good lemonade & orange juice...sodas are called "sigh-e-duh" or cider lol
chicken wings, yay! the teriyaki sauce was amazing! and the round balls in the back are supposed to be like dessert...with honey inside them but the texture of the outside is chewy, bleh!
two favorites i discovered...Twix & Lipton Tea! Oreos are fairly good, but the filling is lacking...guess they don't double stuff in Korea!
it's custom to order food when you are out drinking at different places...so this is the chicken we ordered..ended up costing more than the drinks lol lesson learned...order cheaper food!
Koreans are big on having lots of side dishes...there were more to the left of the bowl
and of course, the infamous "bibimbap" meal...not enough meat for me & too many odd vegetables. i never thought i'd be happy to eat carrots & spinach, but when you can atleast identify the food, you feel less frightened to eat it lol
this was actually my first meal for lunch at orientation...some sort of beef, rice, soup, and tangerines...not bad! the flavored tea they served was delicious as well :)
the above picture is from the farewell dinner...i told me friend Dave to eat the "baby octopus," which he did, and i put one on my plate just for show lol
definately did not eat that...heard it was pretty chewy though & not horrible...i'll take their word for it :)
and finally...eating on my own resulted in hunting down a pizza place...which turned out to be right across the street from me! "Pizza Bingo!" got the beer at DC Mart (my grocery store) lol
tastes pretty much the same as American pizza, but like i said, there's always that small "off" taste
and this assortment is everything i was able to find at DC Mart that either looked somewhat familiar or had enough English words on it to figure out what it was :)
Overall, even though it can be a struggle at times, I think I will survive in Korea. Either I will lose weight from not eating as often, or gain wait from eating all the "westernized" version of Korean food. We shall see!! As of right now I'm working on memorizing the Korean alphabet in order to read the signs & menus at the restaurants. I've also hung out with a couple from England a couple times, Paul and Ali, who are showing me the good places to eat and how to say it in Korean. They've been here for a year already, so they know quite a bit of Korean. Slowly but surely this will all be natural to me as well! :)
XOXO,
Amanda
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