April 26, 2010 – Seoul, Korea

Ok, I know, you must be thinking what kind of dish this is or is it a dish at all. This is the hard shell of shrimp, scientifically known as exoskeleton, which forms the head, thorax, and abdomen. Shrimps, or saeu in Korea, living near the water’s surface has exoskeleton often in transparent color, making them less visible to their predators.  They have a high tolerance to toxins in polluted areas, and may contribute to high toxin levels in their predators. Together with prawns, saeu are widely caught and farmed for human consumption.

Saeujeot, a variety of jeotgal (salted fermented Korean cuisine), depends its quality largely on the freshness of the saeu. In warm weather, fishermen may immediately add salt for preliminary preservation.

*credit to Wikipedia

April 20, 2010 – Daejeon, Korea

The perfect place for biking has always been the Park. People go here to spend their siesta. Other than biking, people can stroll around, sit on the benches and nap or read a book or have a hot coffee with someone while having a good conversation. After a decade, I finally had the chance to bike again, and this time, there were only few people in the park. I don’t need to worry about bumping other people especially the kiddos. Hehe. Because I am always a beginner when it comes to biking.

April 21, 2010 – Busan, Korea

Before we start to walk on the streets of boutiques and stores, we found a food stall and bought a pack of potato strips. That’s 3000won on the go.

April 27, 2010 – Seoul, Korea

We spent our last lunch in a small eatery within the vast bargain stores and other eateries in Nandaemun. Chinese-influenced countries prepare foods in large bowls. Eateries covered each bowled meal (e.g. noodle, rice meal) with plastic and display them outside with a seller who will persuade people to come inside because they offer good foods at cheaper prices. When the seller realized that we don’t understand them, she pointed to us a signboard that says they have an English menu.

April 21, 2010 – Busan, Korea

In a museum/souvenir shop in Yongdusan Tower, I saw this prototype of The Prince ship use for lumber export from/to Korea in the early times. Korea imports large quantity of lumbers directly from few foreign countries of North and South America and Southeast Asia. Most of these lumbers are manufactured into different products for domestic use and some are reexported to other countries.