Thursday, August 17, 2017

Flower Snow

It was just very busy and crowded day, I just woke up so late and met a friend. We have plans to just enjoy some desserts and go to shopping around Gangnam Area. Because very often rolling around the Gangnam area, there is not much dessert cafe we can try to, but one cafe attracted me to come. The Dessert Cafe called 꽃잎 스노우 디저트 / Flower Snow Dessert.


From outside of the cafe, we already feel the feminine nuisance from the flower, they even have a pinky name sign board, very girly! The cafe was very well organized with pink and light gray chairs. They decorated every table with fresh flower, beautifully match with marble table. If you see the ceiling, you can see hanging leaf there. It looked so natural and beautiful. In the order desk, they had an LCD menu sign board so you can see all the available menu clearly. Every corner of this cafe was full of flowers and look so fresh.


For your information, this cafe has a special menu, they always put cute flower made with white bean paste on top of their special menu, like ice flakes and cakes. They had a different color and taste so they can adjust match with the menu taste.


So, after long discussion, we decided to order Green Tea Ice Flakes / 녹차빙수, Red Velvet Cream Cake / 레드벨벳 생크림 케이크, and Ice Pomegranate Ade / 석류초. I was really excited when my order came to our table, it was colorful and looks fresh. The beautiful white bean paste flower was looking very lovely, made me feel sorry to eat that.


Red Velvet Cream Cake / 레드벨벳 생크림 was quite different with red velvet cake we usually consume. The main ingredient was rice powder and to make rice cake usually they made the cake with steam method. The taste was quite different, the texture was quite rough but solid. Not really sweet, but the red velvet flavor was blended well with the texture. If you never try to eat rice cake (Korean Traditional cake) maybe the taste a little bit weird, but I really like it because I'm a fan of Rice Cake. And top of the Red Velvet Cream Cake there was a beautiful red rose white bean paste flower. If you curious about the taste, The white bean paste tastes almost similar with red bean taste. It was just so beautiful, made me feel sorry to eat that! But it was great, I think the best from entire this cake parts.
Price: 7,000₩


Green Tea Ice Flakes / 녹차빙수!!! I kind of want to scream when eating this Ice Flakes, it was great and great and great, very fit to eat with the summer season. As I explained before in the top of the Ice Flakes we can find beautiful white bean paste flower and I think that flower was perfectly matched when you eat that with Ice Flakes. I actually not fan of green tea, but trust me it was really delicious! The Green tea ice cream inside plus ice flakes on the top of that was matched from heaven! I definitely want to eat this again!
Price: 6,000₩


After eating two desserts, time to make fresh our mouth and stomach with the Ice Pomegranate Ade / 석류초! It was my first time heard about Pomegranate as Ade, quite hesitated to order that, but the owner said that is the best Ade to try. So as recommended by the cafe's owner, I try that and the taste was outstanding! It was quite unique but similar to Grapefruit Ade mix with Strawberry Ade. It was very fresh and great! And one thing made me excited about this Ade, they served the ice cube with edible yellow flower inside (I'm not sure what kind of flower but I guess it was Prim Rose Flower)! I think it was a great idea to give more colors on the drink so it will look more tempting to drink.
Price: 6,000₩

How to get there:
꽃잎 스노우 디저트 / Flower Snow Dessert
15, Gangnam-daero 94-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 06129 / 서울특별시 강남구 강남대로94길 15
Working hours: Everyday 10.00-23.00KST
Seoul subway Line 2 to Gangnam Station exit 11 or 12.


Okay, I just fall in love with this cafe, the interior, the food, the drink, the services all perfect! I definitely will be stopping by again anytime soon to try other desserts at this cafe! Love it!


Lately, I really want to take some time to breathe in the place like countryside area, I want to take myself far away from my busy life and the crowded city. I'm grown up in the countryside area in Indonesia when you can hear the birds chirping in the morning or green color from the paddy field. And weirdly, I miss that situation sometimes.

When your age no longer young and when the world isn't just about eat, sleep, and play anymore, I just feel like wanting to breathe in the open air with green color spreading in the front of my eyes. It isn't running, it is just to refresh the depleted energies.

So, maybe I still can't do that right now, but as soon as I have time I want to spend 1-2 days to enjoy that kind peaceful scenery. How about you? How's life?


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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Looking for Answers

Sunny day on weekends, craving for delicious food, and need friends as a shoulder to cry on, I departed to Garosugil area for release all my heavy heart. And maybe shopping will be healed pain in the heart.


Before shopping, I and friends decided to recharge our energy with good food, so I went to a restaurant called ABLE / 에이블. ABLE's interior is so look "natural" and "green," the entire restaurant decorated with flowers or leaves, the table made from woods, the wall was left "peel" naturally, created a "vintage" feel there. In the center of the restaurant, there is a wooden rack and they put a glass bottle with real flower plants, look so green and fresh. I really love the interior!


Okay, time to order the food! Starving for something creamy we ordered Broccoli Shrimp Cream Pasta / 브로콜리 새우 크림 파스타 and Egg in Hell / 에그 인 헬 for 1st batch. And the second batch was for dessert! We ordered Berry Berry French Toast / 베리베리프렌치토스트 and Brownie / 브라우니.


Start from Broccoli Shrimp Pasta / 브로콜리 새우 크림 파스타! It was good and I really love with their platter, it was simply served with a big white bowl and they put bread in the top of Pasta. The amount of food was so big, the creamy pasta was perfect, and the cooked the broccoli with very exact temperature, it was very soft yet crunchy. The shrimp was fresh and delicious as well.
Price: 17,000₩


The second one was Egg in Hell / 에그 인 헬. When the food served, I thought the name they use for this food is so fitting with the platter. They use like small cooking pan as plate, in the middle part, we can find a baked egg with sunny side up style surround with red tomato sauce. When you try to stir, the egg yolk was blown up and mixed well with the Tomato Sauce. Inside of that, we can find bacon bit and delicious mushroom. Egg in Hell was served with bread as well, so you can try to dip the bread into the Tomato Sauce!
Price: 16,000₩


Time to dessert! Actually my stomach was so full to eat some heavy dessert, so we ordered some ABLE's infamous dessert called Berry Berry French Toast / 베리베리프렌치토스트. Berry Berry French Toast was containing with various fruits, Toast and maple syrup. I really love with fruits, so this is one of my favorite desserts. It was fresh and healthy!
Price: 15,000₩


The other one, Brownie / 브라우니 was good, the brownie was delicious and match well when eat that together with the Vanilla Ice Cream. It was light, fit as dessert when your stomach already full.
Price: 7,000₩

How to get there:
ABLE / 에이블
12, Apgujeong-ro 14-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 06029 / 서울 강남구 압구정로14길 12
Phone: 02-3445-7335
Working hours: Weekdays: 10.00-22.00KST, Break time 15.00-18.00KST. Weekend 10.00-22.00KST.
Seoul Subway Line 3 to Apgujeong Station (압구정역) exit 5 or
Seoul Subway Line 3 to Sinsa Station (신사역) exit 8.


Overall, the interior was great (I love it), the food was okay, seems expensive, but not forget to mention this restaurant located at Garosugil so the price is just okay. I just quite disappointed with their service, the waitresses weren't friendly at all, no smile even. But never mind, anyway, I just came to enjoy the food!


Lately, I just feel everything crumble down over me, the plan which I made before not going well, the job I always do with all my heart there was disappointed me as well, it isn't about the job, but the people. I keep looking for the answer for everything that happened lately. What's wrong? What do I actually need to do? But in the end, it just keeps giving me another question without an answer. Then, I just close my all question with this closure.

We're all looking for answers, in life, in everything. Sometimes the answer we are looking for, have been hiding just below the surface. Other times, we find answers when we didn't even realize we were asking the question. Sometimes, the answers can catch us completely by surprise. And sometimes, even when we find the answer we've been looking for, we're still left with a whole hell of a lot of questions.

I hope you already find the right answer for every question you all have. And I hope the answer doesn't lead you to another confused question. Just live your life. Keep Smile.


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