Tuesday, September 4, 2007

11 weeks!

Well, it was the weekend of noodle-eating extravaganza! It all began with Ellen and baby Natalie's arrival. Her one main request for the weekend was to eat a lot of jajang myun (Chinese style Korean noodles with black bean sauce) and jampong(Korean spicy seafood soup with noodles). Saturday started with a lunch for my cousins-the menu was turkey and ham sandwiches on little dinner rolls, a lovely orzo salad with lemon juice, lemon zest, chips, a fruit salad and of course my MIL's fantastic chocolate chip cookies for dessert. It was a smash.

Then everyone left and Ellen requested ramen noodles which we then cooked up 3 packs of neogori and ate them all. That's what you get when you put two pregnant women in the same room.

Saturday evening was Lilly and John's post-wedding shindig at Sorak Garden. The food was pretty good and we had noodles again---japchae (at least this version has vegetables in it).

Sunday we decided to go to Lunchtime a speciality restaurant that specializes in Jajangmyun and Jampong. It wasn't open so we went the lesser Chong Hwa Won. I had samsung kahn jajang myun. It had a bit of seafood, black bean sauce and of course...noodles. John had the deep fried coated beef in tangy sauce (Tang Soo Yuk).

Sunday evening was Halmeh's event---more Korean food. I had a generous helping of the radish that you wrap yourself in Chinese cabbage. So tasty!

Monday, we hit Lunchtime for dinner and ate bahn/bahn (half and half) jajang myun and jampong. It was a hideous display of glutinous behavior---we had fried dumplings to start and then the noodles. Noodles galore.

The whole evening was topped off with a gigantic sundae from Dolce. This pat bin soo (Korean ice cream concoction) had green tea ice cream, coffee ice cream, strawberry ice cream, papaya, banana, kiwi, pineapple and shaved ice. Not to mention the sugared red beans. Oh my. Natty loved it.

I'm back on the Vitofol today and feel very queasy. Ick!

2 comments:

ValerieM said...

Big congrats! Sounds like you had a yummy visit with Ellen. Congratulations to her, too!
Valerie, Josh, & Julia

Anonymous said...

I'm so happy for you guys! As you know I've been there and done that! If you have any questions, concerns or jut want to have ice cream during lunch time just let me know!
This is one of the most beautiful experiences, enjoy every second of it!

Good Luck-
Claudia and Giovanna

P.S: Any names?