Emart online grocery delivery is the best

The weather is oven hot and who wants to go outside (not me) to hull grocery from the store.  We don't have a car and are thrifty folks that despise riding in stale aired taxis.  I usually just like to walk 20 minutes (free workout) to go to emart on a good day, those are the days when the sky is blue and the air is breathable without having your lungs over worked.  But on days like this, even a frugal health conscious me cannot get myself to get out to sweat like a sauna fanatic to save a few thousand wons and get a free workout.

That's when I wait for the emart sale days.  I diligently check my emart app to see what offers they have for the day, the best ones are the 12% off over 70,000won purchase with a 5% discount on using your KB card.  That's a pretty good deal.  It comes maybe once a month.  I couldn't wait any longer for the KB card discount, so I went ahead and got my online grocery for 12% off!  Almost 10,000won saved.  I usually get the very essentials - like the cookie my cat is standing next to for a photo opt.  He knows what mommy prizes.

Emart is not the cheapest, but if you use the coupon deals they have with free delivery, then say no more. 

That's a good deal. They are always on time too.  You choose a time slot between 2-3 hours time frame.  For example, you will select a time slot of 1-4pm delivery, and it will get delivered within that time.  They drop your goodies in your house, usually on the door step inside.  They used to drop each item one by one, but now drop it in big plastic bags.  I like this system very much!  

One of the many good reasons Korea rules!  

I can order big heavy items without lifting a finger, well a few fingers to click on bottons to make my order online. 

They also always deliver the freshest items.  I haven't had a problem.  A few cracked eggs came in one time, but I let that slide because I've ordered so many times and this was pretty minor and would only costs me less than 1000won loss and complaining and phoning them would cost me more time.  Some things aren't worth the effort.

Overall, emart delivery system is the best.    Pair it with coupon sales and you'll be saving 10% in groceries easily!  

Hurray savings and efficient system and technology!

www.emart.com

Sweet potato cake from Tous les Jour

Just as we were wondering why there aren't any good cakes in Korea, this cake comes along and surprises us.  That a non conventional cake, such as this sweet potato cake, can make a conventional oil laden American cake shame itself for being so darn delicious but devilish to its core, from the not so healthy ingredients that wallows the consumer with guilt and sorrow.

Korea has many non conventional (to outsiders) ways and things, from serving pickles and pasta, corn and sweet potato cream as everyday delightful toppings on pizza, to red bean ice cream that outsiders may first come across as odd, but later come to embrace the not so mismatchy ways Korea pairs food and other things we won't go over here.

The Kimchi (Hong Jin Kyung's kimchi company) - delivery

Summer is a strange time of the year.  It is the season when I consume about 1 kg of kimchi a week.  When a weekly supply of fresh made kimchi needs to be delivered to supply the demand of salt, and spicy takes over our taste buds. Gone are the days of fresh delicate salads of the Spring.  Summer means, sweating, a lot, daily here in Korea, and replenishing those salts dissipating the body is necessary.

Kimchi is a great food for the Summer.  It's fresh and salty.  Crunchy and sour.  Live in korea in summer and you'll be in no time embracing the sweaty-life that Koreans expect and live without much complaint.  

I sweat at home daily.  I don't turn on the AC at home unless it's necessary.  This differs because in America, sweating is "not a normal" - unless you're in the gym that you pay a membership for an exclusive place to sweat.  Well, in Korea, you are allowed to sweat at home and not feel like it's because you can't afford the bill or AC repair, and even have your guests sweat at home is not rude.

Summer also means seasonal delightful fresh kimchi, like this "yeol-mu kimchi" I ordered online.  It was on sale for less than 10,000won(less than $10).  I'm always down for new kimchi taste and great sales.  

It came in 2 days in a nice ice box.  The box is way too big for the product(1.5kg).  Can't complain, it came cold and nicely packaged.  

The kimchi - is a kimchi company by the model/entertainer, Hong Jin Kyung.  She was a top model in the early 90s - I saw her on tv when I lived here in the 1990s in Korea, she was quite popular in comedy shows! so to see her doing her thang and having a successful kimchi company is inspiring because it's a mother and daughter made kimchi (at least the image of it).

It was a bit too fresh to eat right away, so I'm letting it sit on the counter for 2 days and it should be good to devour!  My body will be thanking the salty kimchi water I'll be in-taking soon.

This would be good as a "cold soup" or over noodles, or pretty much just by itself would be best.

Yummy yummy!

5 cookies - small oven and heat wave - summer 2016 Seoul

It's been super hot in Seoul right now, for a couple of weeks, it's been HOT (for this city at least), high of 34~35 Celsius is pretty hot for us.   The concrete jungle living don't help either.  The heat never leaves unless the rain washes it away.  Wish there were more trees in Seoul!

Anyways, I finally got myself to bake some cookies despite the heat that comes out of our small oven/microwave, it's worth it.   So worth it! 

I forgot hot much better home baked cookies are, not that I'm bragging about how good my cookies are, just the fact that, it's plain cookies without all that additives, and it tastes much different!  better!  This comes from someone that took a semester of Le Cordon Bleu pastry... nothing lasts forever!  that passion I had for baked goodies has dimished over time - but I really appreciate being able to bake these goodies at home.    I guess my expensive tuition fees paid off :P

What is that?

  

I miss the blue expansive never ending sky.  We don't get to see much of that beauty here in Seoul.  It kind of feels like you're entrapped in a hazy blue bubble, never the same expansive sky that seems to have no ending.

That's the typical sky here in Seoul.  With squiggles of white chemtrail of some sort.  

Blue sky, I miss you.