Lunch at Tonkichi Orchard Central (Sat 19 Jun 10)

Was at Orchard Central for the book swop today and ended up at Tonkichi for lunch. Ma was lured by the giant pictures of tonkatsu on the poster at the entrance and took all of two seconds before deciding this was the place for lunch.

Nice condiment set:
Unusual plum sauce salad dressing:
Sesame with mortar and pestle:
Orders arrived pretty quickly.

Soft-shell crab karaage:

Shoyu ramen:
Hire (fillet) katsu set:
All three dishes were not bad. But the sides outshone the specialty. If I were to rank the three, I'd rate the crab the tastiest, followed by the ramen (though the broth was too salty for my liking as usual), with the katsu (their specialty) being the least good.

While walking out the restaurant, I learned from Ma that she picked this place (rather than Botejyu and Garuda on the same floor) based on the photos on the entrance poster - which she thought were advertising croquettes. Oh well.

D's Korea trip

Hi gals!

I've been back from the long-awaited self-planned trip to Seoul. Kind of guilty for not arranging the many many photos for a blog entry.. Simply too much mess to sort out! Reminds me.. We got to meet to swap our Taipei trip photos!

Anyway, my sis and I had lots of fun there. Ok, there was lots of walking around, getting lost, confused by the mini-map of mine, . Basically, we just went to the touristic places like Dongdaemun, Namdaemun, Myeongdong, N Seoul Tower, Lotte World, Coex mall, 63 Building, National Museum of Korea, Dragon Hill Spa, Gyeongbokgung, Presidential House, Hongik University flea market, Coffee Prince cafe and Insadong. We had many kimchi stews, seaweed soup, ginseng chicken, abalone porridge, BBQ, rice cakes, bibimbap, even unpalatable temple cooking.

I met my long-time ICQ to MSN korean friend too. She was so sweet to show me and sis around for a Sunday then the next Saturday. We had lots of fun and she got us a surprise - concert tickets. We saw Kim Janghun and Psy. Special guests were Rain and SNSD. Cool~

I uploaded the days my friend and us spent together on an online database:

http://www.dropshots.com/DawnLSZ

I truly am lazy. Sheepish me.

Anyway, I'll be planning to return to Korea next year for Pusan Film Festival (in Sept?). :) Looking forward already!

[P.S. To my sister's friends who had wanted to go Korea as their grad-trip, got me to plan an itinerary for them. But all bailed out at the last minute. These fickle-minded ladies then regretted not going only after they heard from my sister that it was actually so much fun. -I do sound like a b****. So be it- They even had the cheek to suggest tagging along the next time I go Korea. My.. Hmm..]