Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekend. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2017

Rainbow After the Rain

An another weekend story, along with hard snow, my small step emerged the day. Weekend, time to meet friends and eat some delicious foods and decent dessert. We gathered around 1 o'clock and take a walk together to a famous restaurant called 3 birds. 3 birds is a restaurant by YG entertainment company, one of the biggest entertainment companies in Korea, the created of Bigbang and 2NE1.


With the silver big door, once we step into the restaurant, we can experience a unique atmosphere here. Vintage yet modern and elegant, we can find the colorful bird mural on the wall which gives us the warm and fun feeling. This warm feeling combined with a cold feeling of marble-made tables.

The open counter of food and dessert, make us easier to pick the foods we want to order. No need confused because of food is displayed well and look delicious which made us want to taste everything.

Finally, after a very long discussion (everything looks delicious, we can't easily decide), we ordered Mushroom Sandwich / 머쉬룸 샌드위치, Salmon and Fennel Open Sandwich / 연어 페넬 오픈 샌드위치, and Balt Sandwich / BALT 샌드위치.


My favorite one, Salmon and Fennel Open Sandwich. For personal taste, from the 3 sandwiches I ordered, it was the best sandwich! First, because I really love Salmon! The toasted bread was perfect, on top of the bread they use a very delicious sour cream for the jam, completed with various vegetables which some of them I never eat before (FYI, I'm meat mania-not really fond with vegetables) yet blended well with the salmon and bread. And served with corn and bean salad. Nice! And perfect!
Price: 13,000 won.


The Mushroom Sandwich was... perfect! Served together with fresh salad, on top of the sandwich bread, there is the mushroom, melted cheese, and some vegetables with cheese flakes covered them all. The bread was perfect as well, well done toasted gives the crunchy texture, blend very well with the mushroom and cheese.
Price: 11,500 won.


The last one, Balt sandwich. Avocado! If you are avocado mania, you definitely order this one! Inside of the toasted bread there are veggies, pork meat, fresh avocado and sauces. I don't know what the secret recipe of the sauces, but it's actually great and made everything in blended perfect! And served with crunchy potato chips made everything completed!
Price: 9,500 won.


Actually, we had planned to move another place to get our dessert, but we've got seduced by the 3 bird's desserts. And the result, we ordered 2 kinds of look-very tempting desserts, Seasonal Pumpkin Pie / 시즈널펌킨파이 and Rhubarb & Cranberry Pie / 루바브&크랜베리파이.


Alright, let's talk about the Rhubarb and Cranberry Pie. It was fantastic, with cranberry mixed on top of the perfect baked pie, I don't how they created that very perfect taste. The cranberries feels fresh and the pie was tasty! Served with vanilla ice cream and made two of them match made from heaven!
Price: 9,000 won.


The Seasonal Pumpkin Pie, remind me with Halloween Pie, very sweet, but match well with the (once again) perfect baked pie, and blended well with vanilla ice cream.
Price: 8,500 won.

Overall, everything was perfect here. The restaurant nuances and the food were magnificent. I will give two thumbs for this restaurant. Definitely going to go there again if there is anytime!

How to get there:
3 Birds
10, Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 07326 / 서울시 영등포구 국제금융로 10 1층(Three IFC)
Seoul subway station Yeoido Station (여의도역) to IFC mall (they have connected way between the station to Mall).




After filling our stomachs, I and friends went to IFC mall for shopping!!!!! There's a lot sale, but I don't why there are no things I want to buy, so I just take a walk and drink my favorite Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks while watching my friend shopping. Ha-ha!

The sun goes down and I need to come back home, say see you again with my lovely friends.


Sometimes for me, Saturday is always being my reset button. Reset from every exhausted day, reset from stressful work and school, reset from lonely long day, reset from every my broken heart, reset from every person whose dismisses me, reset from every pain and hurt. We survive in a very harsh world, there are a lot pains and hurts we are going to accept, not only from the others but maybe from our self esteem.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, this is your life, when you're feeling broken and the world seems not to treat you well, you need to find a reset button. Take a Breath, push that button and give yourself a break because you're deserved to. Just remember, You try to remember that, even in the bad news, there's always a good news. There's always a rainbow after the rain. Cheers!


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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Seungri BIGBANG's AORI Ramen

One fine cold day, craved for a real Japanese taste of ramen. By chance, my friends just told me about Seungri Bigbang new Ramen restaurant, called AORI when I search for the restaurant on the internet, I found the reviews are pretty great, so I said okay, let's go and try!


When I read the review, they said if AORI always has long queue even before they open (yeah, I think this makes sense, because of Bigbang fans is like all over the world and of course Seungri effect working very well for AORI promotion tools).


Well, I came around 12 o'clock (open hour: 11.30) and yes the queue already longer than what I think, we waited for around 30 minutes and finally, we can eat!

The restaurant has a unique concept, they just have one-person seat, Seungri said he purposefully made that concept because when people come solo, they not going to feel awkward because of they need to sit and eat alone.


At your table, you can find a menu list and some order paper (complete with 4 languages: Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese). There are just 2 kinds of ramen menu: 아오리 라멘 lite / AORI Ramen Lite (2 toppings: Charsiu and Green onion) and 아오리 라멘 / AORI Ramen (5 toppings: Charsiu, Boiled egg, Seaweed, Menma), then for topping you can order whatever you want to eat.


And I ordered the AORI RAMEN LITE + Charsiu (barbecued marinated pork) for extra topping. You can see in the pictures, the one with Boiled egg is AORI RAMEN and the one without egg is mine AORI RAMEN LITE.

How to get there:
AORI RAMEN / 아오리 라멘
7, Dosan-daero 57-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 06014 / 서울특별시 강남구 도산대로57길 7
Seoul Subway Line Bundang (분당선) to Apgujeong Rodeo Station / 압구정로데오 get out to exit 4.


Overall, I like the concept of the restaurant, we can go there alone without any awkward feeling, yet it does not feel hard to eat together with friends too and the ramen was amazing, very fit with my salty tongue. And if you fans of Bigbang, I'll I suggest you to come, try the food or maybe test your luck with accidentally-possibility to meet one or maybe all of Bigbang member hanging out at AORI when you come? Who knows?

HAVE A NICE DAY!


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