Tag: my korean husband (Page 43 of 127)

Japchae Hotteok

2015/02/16 / Nic / 22 Comments

This was amusing to me because usually I’m the one that is horrified by weird food combinations in Korea, but this time he was annoyed by an unusual combination. To me the hotteok tasted really good, it was nice and savoury. But for him it was sacrilege. He insisted that hotteok is supposed to be sweet. There are definitely more unusual combinations of Korean food in Seoul, but the strange combinations of Western food has infiltrated all of Korea. Like the sugar on garlic bread, or corn and broccoli on pizza, and don’t even get me started on Italian food.

Also the mixing of Korean and foreign food can go horribly wrong. The word “fusion” used to seem exciting and promising to me, but these days it makes me shudder. I’ve had way too many bad experiences with fusion food.

He was so outraged by this hottoek. He even tasted it and said it tasted terrible, but to me it was pretty good! Hopefully there is a little bit more understanding between us about what it’s like seeing your culture’s food combined in a weird way.

This japchae hotteok is sold in Hongdae and we spent quite a lot of time in Hongdae on our recent trip to Seoul. Here is the first vlog from our trip:

Cheese and Vegemite

2015/02/11 / Nic / 10 Comments

He says “ew” but I’m pretty sure he has eaten this before and liked it.

Why is water like this in Korea? And new vlog.

2015/02/11 / Nic / 0 Comments

We answer a question about drinking water in Korea:

There is also a new vlog up! It explains what is happening with the EBS filming:

Missing Sister

2015/02/09 / Nic / 11 Comments

I think for most of their adult life Mr Gwon’s sister has had more money than him. She was always working in Korea while he travelled around Asia and Australia. Right now she is in Australia, but working hard. She comes back soon though, so I think Mr Gwon is envisioning many presents and things bought for him when she moves back. Luckily for him she is a very nice sister.

Living with inlaws

2015/02/06 / Nic / 6 Comments

There are a few reasons why we are living with Hugh’s parents. One reason is that they are getting older and Hugh probably won’t ever have this type of time with them again, so making the most of it. Another reason is that it is of course cheaper for us to live with them. Hugh could go get a job and work hard and we could have a nice apartment and car, but he wouldn’t be able to do any blogging or edit videos or have much time for me. So we are making those sacrifices so we can get the website and business ideas off the ground, as well as cherishing our time together. We would pretty much have to stop YouTube if he was to get a normal Korean job.

Mostly it’s fine living with his parents. They let us do our own thing, but of course it is hard to have privacy. Not only that, but his parents are an older generation and in the countryside. They never show any affection for each other in front of others, so Hugh can be self conscious about even a quick peck if his parents are around – which is most of the time!

Punishment in Korea games

2015/02/06 / Nic / 2 Comments

In this Ask Us video we talk about games and living with my family in Australia.

Noisy Morning

2015/02/05 / Nic / 5 Comments

The past 2 morning have been so noisy! We go to bed really late so we need that sleep in the morning but sometimes it’s so interrupted. Announcements in the village are done over loudspeakers and it drives me crazy. In the drama ‘Modern Farmer’ they get the village announcements on their phones and someone said “Oh no one uses the loudspeakers anymore in the countryside!” No… they still do it here! There were several announcements yesterday in the morning and also this morning. Not only the announcements this morning but a big fertilizer truck came with bags of fertilizer that villagers needed to come collect. Because our house is near the village community centre and our window faces it, our sleep was severely interrupted by hours of a thudding sound of fertilizer being unloaded.

We only had a few hours sleep and then had 2 TV producers/writers come from Seoul to meet with us because they want to film us next week. I didn’t expect to be filmed today, but they did a bit and I had to draw this comic while being filmed. It’s hard to draw when people are watching, so sorry this comic isn’t that good today (and it’s late).

Anyway, hoping to get more sleep tonight!