Yesterday, I was wondering what I should eat for lunch. I was looking inside of the refrigerator and there were nothing. Then I remembered what my friend told me last week to try the burrito at Albertos. So I called Yong, from our English 100 class, to go get some burrito for lunch. We went to Albertos to get some burrito. We went in to Albertos and ordered Alburto’s Burrito. There was something different about this burrito than other burritos. Their burrito had eggs, beacon, cheese, and ham inside, just like any other burritos. However, something was different about this burrito. They had fresh cut potatoes inside of them. They were chunks of them. It was not soggy and mushy. It gave me this fresh biting feeling that I have never felt before from any other soggy burritos. The price was cheap and very tasty.
It was different from Americanized burrito like in Del Taco or Taco Bell. They had their own unique Mexican feeling inside of the restaurant and from the taste of the burritos. Then I thought people in different region of Mexico will have different types of burritos. By changing what is inside of burritos, they can make thousands of possibilities. You can have only vegetables and call it a “vegeburrito”. Also you can put meat, pork, and chicken at all once in a burrito, and then call it “fusion burrito”.
Mexican people made the burritos in a really flexible way. People could change what it is inside of it and have the different types of burritos. Like the burritos, many people are greatly affected by what they eat. Different parts of the region are acting differently because the way they eat. By doing many blogs throughout the semester, I have learned that everyone is sharing the same food together. They learn more cultural aspect of others easily by just sharing their traditional food to others. Like how the burritos are open to everyone to change what is the inside, everyone is open to each other to change their thoughts and personalities in a broad multicultural person.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Rice Cakes
The word “rice cake” sounds like a regular cake with rice on top of it. However, it is sort of different. Rice cakes are cakes or little desserts that are made of rice as main ingredient. It is originally from Korea. To make the rice cakes, you grind the rice and add little water and mix them up like dough. Then you steam up the dough. There are many different kinds of rice cakes: rainbow, plain, In Jul Mi, Song Pyun and more. Song Pyun, one of the types of rice cakes has honey and sesames inside of it. There are three different colors to it: yellow, pink, white, and green. Many Korean people eat rice cakes when they are having a first birthday for the baby, wedding, or some celebration. Sometimes they just eat it because it is delicious.
Rice Cakes are made first in South Korea around early 1300’s. At first, it was only served to the loyal king. Then it became to known to everyone, but it was too expensive to eat it. Since the price of the rice was so high, only nobles and upper middle class were able to afford to eat it. For the poor people, they only ate it for special occasion like wedding or new years. In new years, South Koreans eat the rice soup. Inside of rice soup, there are dumplings, boiled eggs, seaweeds, and sesames. South Koreans eat this every year to say that you age one more year by eating it. There are some jokes saying that if you eat more than one bowl, you get more aged.
Now days, people eat it like just appetizer or dessert. They are small and chewy which attracts many people. Rice cakes are cheap and so small now days, but now I know that these are only served to kings and nobles long time ago. They are really good and I want to spread this Korean’s traditional food to everyone in the world, because they do not know what it is. They should know that it is so good that it was only served to nobles and the king.
Rice Cakes are made first in South Korea around early 1300’s. At first, it was only served to the loyal king. Then it became to known to everyone, but it was too expensive to eat it. Since the price of the rice was so high, only nobles and upper middle class were able to afford to eat it. For the poor people, they only ate it for special occasion like wedding or new years. In new years, South Koreans eat the rice soup. Inside of rice soup, there are dumplings, boiled eggs, seaweeds, and sesames. South Koreans eat this every year to say that you age one more year by eating it. There are some jokes saying that if you eat more than one bowl, you get more aged.
Now days, people eat it like just appetizer or dessert. They are small and chewy which attracts many people. Rice cakes are cheap and so small now days, but now I know that these are only served to kings and nobles long time ago. They are really good and I want to spread this Korean’s traditional food to everyone in the world, because they do not know what it is. They should know that it is so good that it was only served to nobles and the king.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Soo Jae Bee
Last Friday, I was hungry and I did not know what to eat. My mom came home and I asked her to make me something really good. She asked me if I wanted to eat Korean Barbeque. I replied back to her saying that it is too greasy and I am sick of it. I was asking for something new. She told me that I was asking too much and I should be thankful of what I have right now. After she said that, she was started cooking. She poured flours into a bucket and start mixing with water. It became dough and she started to split those into little pieces. She boiled the water and put that little dough into the water. After boiling in water about three minutes, she poured it into a bowl. Then she told me “this is what we ate when we were poor.” I tried it and it was okay to eat. I was thinking if you put some eggs, onions, and other ingredients, it will taste good. Then I asked to my mom “how come you are telling me this?” She told me that long time ago, when South Korea was under control by Japan, South Korea was really poor and they had nothing to eat. Since rice was too expensive to buy, many people bought flours. Flours were the only thing they could afford. There were no other ingredients that time because it would cost too much to make something delicious. Since many people were not able to afford to buy rice, they ate Soo Jae Bee for every meal. Even though it was not really good, they had to eat it, because it was filling in stomach and cheap.
After she told me that story, I knew something about South Korea. They were suffering in famine long time ago. They had not enough money to eat rice like they do every meal now. This traditional food made me think that cheap rice right now used to be something valuable. And also people in this generation are not appreciating what they are getting now.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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I was bored at night so I turned on the television for something fun to watch. I was skipping channels for something exciting and fun. There was nothing really fun to watch to get my attention. Right before I was about to turn off my television, I saw a commercial about saving water. The commercial was saying that we are lacking clean water and we should save water instead of wasting them. I was watching that commercial and said, “What is this commercial talking about? I thought the whole earth was filled with water.” I thought that commercial was false information. I think the people who are making commercials are not really paying attention to what is right or wrong. We have so much water in the ocean and we can use that water.
However, the truth was all different. I went online to see what the problem with clean water is. Currently right now many people are not getting access to clean water. The site stated that each year we are getting 19.5 million people infected by the bacteria from the water. Without clean water, humans will be infected with many diseases. Due to global warming and droughts, we are lacking more water each year. I was surprised to see that we are really lacking clean water. I never thought of the clean water issue until now. Since the Earth is filled with water, many people think that we have abundant amount of water. However, we should save water because the ocean water is not drinkable.
Before reading and watching about the clean water issue, I always wasted clean water by just throwing away a half full water bottle into the trash can. Also I always turned on the water for about five minutes before I shower. I always thought that water is not important because we have so much of it. This commercial got me think that water is really important and we should save what we have because water is one of the most important element of our life. We should save clean water before we run out!
However, the truth was all different. I went online to see what the problem with clean water is. Currently right now many people are not getting access to clean water. The site stated that each year we are getting 19.5 million people infected by the bacteria from the water. Without clean water, humans will be infected with many diseases. Due to global warming and droughts, we are lacking more water each year. I was surprised to see that we are really lacking clean water. I never thought of the clean water issue until now. Since the Earth is filled with water, many people think that we have abundant amount of water. However, we should save water because the ocean water is not drinkable.
Before reading and watching about the clean water issue, I always wasted clean water by just throwing away a half full water bottle into the trash can. Also I always turned on the water for about five minutes before I shower. I always thought that water is not important because we have so much of it. This commercial got me think that water is really important and we should save what we have because water is one of the most important element of our life. We should save clean water before we run out!
Strawberries
After waking up from tiring night, I was very hungry and feeling something to fill my stomach. I looked inside the refrigerator for something good. There was nothing that can make my stomach full. In the corner top inside of the refrigerator I saw some strawberries. Red and green color attracted me with great a desire. I grabbed the bucket that had full of strawberries. I did not what to do with it. Then I remembered that my sister had used to make smoothie out of it. So I cut the top of the strawberries and put them inside of the mixer. I poured some milk inside to make the smoothie. After the mixer was mixing for about twenty seconds, I took the smoothie out of the mixer and drank it. It was very delicious. I was not full so I grabbed the rest of the strawberries and ate them.
After finishing all the strawberries on the bucket, I was thinking critically about the strawberries, “hmm… The strawberries are good but what are the benefits of it?” After thinking like that, I went on internet and looked up for the health benefits of strawberries. The site stated that strawberries have high amount of Vitamin C and phytonutrients and antioxidants. I was like confused about the phytonutrients and antioxidants. I read on and they are job is to fight radicals. Then I was more confused because I did not know what radicals were. Radicals are elements that damages cells and had many effects of cancer. After reading the journal at the website, I got to know much more about the strawberries. I did not know these small strawberries are really good to our body. I always thought that the nasty and yucky taste foods were good for your health, but I found that these tasty strawberries were good for our body too.
Since the strawberries are good for our body, I looked for many ways I can have my strawberries taste delicious. I saw you can eat it just fresh from garden after cleaning, making smoothie out of it, putting them into a salad bowl, and many more. Since small strawberries are really good for our body and delicious, we should eat a lot!
After finishing all the strawberries on the bucket, I was thinking critically about the strawberries, “hmm… The strawberries are good but what are the benefits of it?” After thinking like that, I went on internet and looked up for the health benefits of strawberries. The site stated that strawberries have high amount of Vitamin C and phytonutrients and antioxidants. I was like confused about the phytonutrients and antioxidants. I read on and they are job is to fight radicals. Then I was more confused because I did not know what radicals were. Radicals are elements that damages cells and had many effects of cancer. After reading the journal at the website, I got to know much more about the strawberries. I did not know these small strawberries are really good to our body. I always thought that the nasty and yucky taste foods were good for your health, but I found that these tasty strawberries were good for our body too.
Since the strawberries are good for our body, I looked for many ways I can have my strawberries taste delicious. I saw you can eat it just fresh from garden after cleaning, making smoothie out of it, putting them into a salad bowl, and many more. Since small strawberries are really good for our body and delicious, we should eat a lot!
Different Ways of Advertisement
Since my sister and I were on spring break, my parents decided to have some break from the mundane life. Yesterday and the day before, I was in San Francisco with my family. We took turns on driving there and coming back to home. When I was there, I was amazed on everything that was there. It was much busier and crowded city compared to our city. We rode on the cable cars and walked along the piers.
When I was walking on the piers, I saw many stores that were selling little memorable monuments that resembled San Francisco. What caught my eyes the most were the T-shirts that had “I heart SF”. It was inside of a cube that was made of glass. It was like if the shirt was the best thing that the store had. I went into the store to see the shirt in detail. It felt like that shirt had some kind of different texture. Then one of the workers came up to me and asked if I want that shirt. I told her I wanted it. It felt good because I thought I had the best shirt in the world. I was happy that I was getting a shirt that was really good. When I came back home from San Francisco, I looked into the car and searched for the bag that had the shirt. When I found the bag, I brought them into my room. I took the shirt out and laid it on the floor. When I looked at it, it felt different. It just looked like a normal shirt that I would see from my closet. I was discouraged.
When we go to the mall, we always fall for the store’s trick. Everything in the store looks good and nice. However, when people bring the clothes back to their home, it does not look the same as before. We think that we got the same shirt but we get the different feeling. The clothing stores always have a good lighting effect on the shirt. Even the normal shirts look good in the stores. Also the workers are pushing you to buy them. They always say, “It looks good on you”. However, the truth is that they say that to all the customers to make them buy the shirt. We go through the clothing stores all the time, but we always fall for the trick that they have for us. We should always give a second thought on buying clothes.
When I was walking on the piers, I saw many stores that were selling little memorable monuments that resembled San Francisco. What caught my eyes the most were the T-shirts that had “I heart SF”. It was inside of a cube that was made of glass. It was like if the shirt was the best thing that the store had. I went into the store to see the shirt in detail. It felt like that shirt had some kind of different texture. Then one of the workers came up to me and asked if I want that shirt. I told her I wanted it. It felt good because I thought I had the best shirt in the world. I was happy that I was getting a shirt that was really good. When I came back home from San Francisco, I looked into the car and searched for the bag that had the shirt. When I found the bag, I brought them into my room. I took the shirt out and laid it on the floor. When I looked at it, it felt different. It just looked like a normal shirt that I would see from my closet. I was discouraged.
When we go to the mall, we always fall for the store’s trick. Everything in the store looks good and nice. However, when people bring the clothes back to their home, it does not look the same as before. We think that we got the same shirt but we get the different feeling. The clothing stores always have a good lighting effect on the shirt. Even the normal shirts look good in the stores. Also the workers are pushing you to buy them. They always say, “It looks good on you”. However, the truth is that they say that to all the customers to make them buy the shirt. We go through the clothing stores all the time, but we always fall for the trick that they have for us. We should always give a second thought on buying clothes.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Salts
Last week my friends and I had a Brazilian Barbeque party at my friend’s house. The weather was perfect for us to stay outside and eat some meat. My friend was cooking the meat and everyone was all around the cooking place waiting until the meat is all done. We were arguing about how much salt we have to put in to make the meat taste the best. One of my friends, Sam, was putting the salts into the meat. Everyone was asking if he was putting the right amount of salts and he responded yes confidently. After all the meats were all cooked, it came out to be perfect.
Almost every food that is cooked needs an ingredient to make the food taste better. To make a cooked food taste better, you might need to add some salt in there: meats, soups, fishes, and more. Salt is very essential in our life. If we do not have salt, many of the cooked food that we eat would probably have no taste to it. If you go to some famous restaurants, one of the key elements about the meal is the amount of salt they put into the cooked meals. Little amount of salt could change the flavor from good to just okay meal.
Salt is made by evaporating the seawater and collecting what is remained from the evaporation. Even though it takes a lot of efforts to get the fine salts, salts are cheap because they are minerals. Minerals are priced cheap because we all need it. Salts are needed in our body for optimal body functions. After thinking about the salt so much, I went again and looked up salt at online. It came out to be that taking too much or too little salt into our body could to some serious damage. You can get muscle cramp, dizziness, or neurological problems with having excessive or insufficient amount of salt. I did not know that only little tiny salt could do such serious damage. Next time I eat something that is cooked, I better watch out for how much salt I am taking it into my body.
Almost every food that is cooked needs an ingredient to make the food taste better. To make a cooked food taste better, you might need to add some salt in there: meats, soups, fishes, and more. Salt is very essential in our life. If we do not have salt, many of the cooked food that we eat would probably have no taste to it. If you go to some famous restaurants, one of the key elements about the meal is the amount of salt they put into the cooked meals. Little amount of salt could change the flavor from good to just okay meal.
Salt is made by evaporating the seawater and collecting what is remained from the evaporation. Even though it takes a lot of efforts to get the fine salts, salts are cheap because they are minerals. Minerals are priced cheap because we all need it. Salts are needed in our body for optimal body functions. After thinking about the salt so much, I went again and looked up salt at online. It came out to be that taking too much or too little salt into our body could to some serious damage. You can get muscle cramp, dizziness, or neurological problems with having excessive or insufficient amount of salt. I did not know that only little tiny salt could do such serious damage. Next time I eat something that is cooked, I better watch out for how much salt I am taking it into my body.
Dangerous Chocolates
Having nothing to do at Saturday, I called my friends and asked them if they wanted to go to the Chocolate Festival that our English teacher told us. Since all of friends are big fan of chocolates, everyone wanted to go. The poster said the entrance fee was ten dollars. It was a descent price for eating whole bunch of chocolates I guessed. Since it was like a festival, I thought they would block the whole street and do the festival but it was different. With ten dollars, you get 12 tickets and you can buy any chocolates from different stores down the Second Street with you tickets. It felt like I was in elementary school buying things with ticket.
Down the Second Street, there were many different kinds of chocolates: Brownies, Chocolate Dipped Strawberries, Pizookie, chocolates cupcakes, Gelato, Chocolate Yogurt, Chocolate Muffin, and more. Everything that is there was nothing but chocolates. All the chocolates were delicious. The street was filled with the smell of chocolates. As I told you that I am a big fan of chocolates, I ate many chocolates in there with my precious tickets. I ate until I got to this point where I was sick of the chocolates.
Chocolates are really sweet and delicious. I did not realize how many chocolates I have eaten. I was walking around and saw many dogs on the street. I was thinking I would be kind if I fed the dogs some sweet chocolates. So I went up to one of the dogs and tried to feed one. The owner of the dog stopped me with force immediately. I was wondering why he would stop me from giving this good chocolate to the dog. He just said you are stupid and walked away with his dog. I was really curious why he said that. So when I got back from the festival, I went on to looked up for chocolates. I was shocked when I reading all the websites about chocolates. All of them said that feeding chocolates animals such as horses, parrots, cats, and dogs because they cannot metabolize chocolates inside of their body. If they took some of the chocolates, it would stay in their bloodstreams for 20 hours and might cause heart attacks or seizers. This made me feel sad for the animals because they cannot eat these delicious chocolates that we are eating. Chocolates could really harm animals even if they have little bite out of it.
Down the Second Street, there were many different kinds of chocolates: Brownies, Chocolate Dipped Strawberries, Pizookie, chocolates cupcakes, Gelato, Chocolate Yogurt, Chocolate Muffin, and more. Everything that is there was nothing but chocolates. All the chocolates were delicious. The street was filled with the smell of chocolates. As I told you that I am a big fan of chocolates, I ate many chocolates in there with my precious tickets. I ate until I got to this point where I was sick of the chocolates.
Chocolates are really sweet and delicious. I did not realize how many chocolates I have eaten. I was walking around and saw many dogs on the street. I was thinking I would be kind if I fed the dogs some sweet chocolates. So I went up to one of the dogs and tried to feed one. The owner of the dog stopped me with force immediately. I was wondering why he would stop me from giving this good chocolate to the dog. He just said you are stupid and walked away with his dog. I was really curious why he said that. So when I got back from the festival, I went on to looked up for chocolates. I was shocked when I reading all the websites about chocolates. All of them said that feeding chocolates animals such as horses, parrots, cats, and dogs because they cannot metabolize chocolates inside of their body. If they took some of the chocolates, it would stay in their bloodstreams for 20 hours and might cause heart attacks or seizers. This made me feel sad for the animals because they cannot eat these delicious chocolates that we are eating. Chocolates could really harm animals even if they have little bite out of it.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Coffee
I wake up every morning with feeling something is stuck on my throat. Also I feel very sluggish and sleepy because I always sleep late every night. That is why I always go to Starbucks in the morning to get some fresh cup of a coffee. I always order Espresso at Starbucks to start out my day. The smell of coffee is very sweet. The smell makes me feel like I am on this very comfortable bed with some fresh fragrance. When I walk past any coffee shop, the smell of coffee makes me want to stay there for a bit and take a rest. It also makes a person calm from high temper. When I am mad sometimes, I go to the coffee shops because the smell of coffee calms me down. Nothing is more soothing than a cup of fresh cup of a coffee.
Not only drinking cup of a coffee in the morning but also when you are studying at night, it helps a lot to stay up late. During the finals week, I always drink cup of a coffee to stay awake. Those energy drinks are really not tasty but coffees are really delicious and also help to stay awake. Also coffees contain less sugar and calories than energy drinks such as Monster. I do not drink Monster because after drinking Monster, my body starts to quiver like I was outside on a rainy day.
But why do people drink coffee in the morning to start off their day? I was really curious. I mean people say “oh it contains caffeine so it will make your body moving in the morning.” I knew caffeine is in there but I really wanted to know what caffeine doing to our body. So I went on and did some research. I found out that the caffeine is dealing many types of stress to the brain and to protect the brain, there are many neural activity and by increasing blood flow. I did not know the caffeine is actually dealing stress to the brain to make our body stimulate. I thought it was just giving more energy to make our body move.
Not only drinking cup of a coffee in the morning but also when you are studying at night, it helps a lot to stay up late. During the finals week, I always drink cup of a coffee to stay awake. Those energy drinks are really not tasty but coffees are really delicious and also help to stay awake. Also coffees contain less sugar and calories than energy drinks such as Monster. I do not drink Monster because after drinking Monster, my body starts to quiver like I was outside on a rainy day.
But why do people drink coffee in the morning to start off their day? I was really curious. I mean people say “oh it contains caffeine so it will make your body moving in the morning.” I knew caffeine is in there but I really wanted to know what caffeine doing to our body. So I went on and did some research. I found out that the caffeine is dealing many types of stress to the brain and to protect the brain, there are many neural activity and by increasing blood flow. I did not know the caffeine is actually dealing stress to the brain to make our body stimulate. I thought it was just giving more energy to make our body move.
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