Posts that needed to happen a lot sooner...

OK!

So I did something AMAZING this weekend! I went to the Great Wall of China! However I now realize I am way behind of my blogging. I haven't blogged about the art show, foods I've made, and other wonderful events that have happened in the past two weeks, so I think I'm going to just go on writing mode and make a ton of posts. So I'm going to start with the one that is the most dear to my heart, food.


So I am still continuing to make my own meals and try to be as healthy as I can. I go through phases where stir fries are the main focus then small salads become the focus afterwards. So far I have stopped using tofu in my diet and have been focusing more on grains and protein through vegetables. This is one of the meals I make.

1. Israeli Cous Cous stir fry

Ingredients

• israeli cous cous 
• bok choy
• onions
• green peppers
• Braggs Liquid Aminos
• Nutritional Yeast
• Coconut oil

Directions

Basically I would cook the israeli cous cous while I would fry the onions in coconut oil. Once the israeli cous cous is fully cooked, I would mix the israeli cous cous with the onions. I would throw some Nutritional Yeast to make it nice and crispy. I would throw in bok choy leaves as well as the green peppers. I would then end it off by sprinkling it off with some Bragg's Amino Liquids.

  2. Lotus Root stir fry

Ingredients

• lotus root
• enoki mushrooms
• bok choi
• onions
• green peppers
• Bragg's Liquid Aminos
• Nutritional Yeast
• Coconut Oil

Directions

Similar to the Israeli Cous Cous stir fry, I cook the Lotus roots first by frying them in coconut oil and amino liquids. Once they a crispy and tender, I set them aside and cook the onions in coconut oil. Once the onions are soft, I put in the lotus roots, enoki mushrooms, bell peppers and last bok choy. I throw in some  nutritional yeast and some more amino Liquids, and them I'm done, and Bob's my uncle.

I find it easy to cook a large portion because I am a lazy bastard, and I like to save some for school the next day.

Another thing I have been meaning to write is a sort of food observation of produce you can find in Seoul, South Korea. I thought, it might be easy for you the reader to see food options in Seoul, read the reviews, and see where you can buy it. This is one of my first ones.

Chocolate bread

 At the Achasan Loving Hut there are a significant amount of pastries and other vegan items to buy. Yes, you can buy things at most Loving Huts but the Achasan one seems to have the largest amount of things to buy. One of these items is the chocolate bread.

 While the chocolate bread isn't exactly nutritious, it is a good comfort food. The chocolate bread certainly has a good chocolate taste, and overall I liked the pastry. I probably won't buy it again because I think I need to take care of myself more.

You can possibly buy this at the local Loving Hut but if you can't find it, go to the Achasan Loving Hut.

I promise to write more soon! 

Oh look! It's thursday and here's another post!

I have fallen in love with a place that I have not written about for about a month. I know I have been cheating on you (the reader) but for some weird reason I never have time to take a picture.

Because I'm usually stuffing my face

But this place is my favorite restaurant  A lot of people have been complaining that it is not is good because it is not a buffet. I don't really care.... good food is good food.

The better thing is that it is so close. 

Do you hear angels singing? I know I do.

The Loving Hut near Achasan station is so good. They make authentic korean food but it's 100% vegan. 100% FANTASTIC

Can you just say perfect?

I know I feel perfect whenever I'm there. Also, if you want some delicious food to go, or you want to make some meals on your own, you can buy some of their "meat" or other grocery products!

Basically I really do not have much to say but I go there maybe once a week. You'll probably see me there this weekend. I'm not joking.

It's good, it's vegan, and it is certainly healthy.


It makes me a happy camper.

You basically take the subway to Achasan station and get off exit 1. It is right outside your exit. 

Enjoy the joy I feel every single time I have been there.

Oh this is a dress I bought that I really liked. What do you guys think?

More Of My Crazy Vegan Cooking

So, I am so far keeping up with my promise. I have another entry. 

It's full of food, cause that's all I care about now.

It's the only thing I care about.

#1

Another delicious stir fry

Honestly I think I mastered the stir fry, but it's probably considered the easiest thing to make. Whatever, I'm damn proud of myself. I made this a while ago so I might be a tad off my recipe...

• 1/3 of a pumpkin 
• 1/3 of a onion
• 4 garlics
• 3 bok choy bulbs
• 1/4 of enoki mushrooms
• 1/4 of a tofu block
• oil
• nutritional yeast
• braggs liquid amino

I basically do what I usually do with all my stir fries. I put the oil in a saucepan with some chopped up garlic and onion, and I wait for all of it to heat up and get nice and soft. After that I throw a dash of nutritional yeast to get it crispy and so I can have my B12 vitamins. Then I put in the mushrooms, pumpkins, and bok choy in that order. I top it up with a sprig of braggs and some diced up tofu, and I'm done!

#2 

A soufflé! jk it's another stir fry 

I know I shouldn't write about every stir fry I make, but seriously I am super proud of what I make.

• 1/3 of a pumpkin 
• 1/3 of a onion
• 5 or 6 of those little bouquets of broccoli
• 4 garlics
• 3 bok choy bulbs
• 1/4 of enoki mushrooms
• 1/4 of a tofu block
• oil
• nutritional yeast
• braggs liquid amino

Basically it is the same instructions as #1 but this incorporates broccoli. Try putting the broccoli in after the mushrooms so it can be a bit soft but still crispy.

#3

The god warrior salad

This was a special treat. It contains one thing I can't find in South Korea, and one thing that is hard to find in South Korea. Quinoa is as foreign to South Koreans as peeing standing up is to me, and avocado is only found in the English owned giant supermarket HomePlus, which is taxicab drive away. Basically I combined the two to make one of my favorite dishes I always made in California. I'm going to call it the god warrior salad because that is what I felt like when I was eating it; I felt like a god warrior.

• nutritional yeast
• 1/4 of a cup of quinoa
• 1/2 of a avocado
• pinch of salt
• 3 or 4 red lettuce leaves chopped and diced

Boil the quinoa or cook the quinoa in a pot. Mash the 1/2 of the avocado and add a pinch of nutritional yeast and the salt. Once you have a great mashed consistency, mix it with the quinoa. Once that is done, throw it on the bed of lettuce and then bob's your uncle. Well, actually, I don't know much about your family.

Are they nice?

Long overdue... Vegan foods I've been making in Seoul South Korea

So it has been a boring couple of weeks. So much so that there has LITERALLY been nothing to write about. 

I haven't really gone out.

I haven't really eaten out.

I just have worked and chilled at my little apartment.

So I haven't written anything, mostly because I didn't want anyone to read, "hi I didn't do anything today", seven or eight times a week. It makes me look pretty boring.

However I've been accumulating pictures I could write about. One of those were vegan foods I've been making to survive. I thought, hey I should share this with the world.

So here are two meals I've made that are relatively easy and very much vegan.

#1

Stir Fry 

I'm going to have a taxicab confession moment that might be too revealing. No, I have not eaten any meat, and no, I have not burned down my apartment or anything but, I am getting sick and tired of rice.

Yes, I might have written about this before, but I am getting sick of rice.

I mean it this time.

I am just not a heavily carbohydrate person. My dad is gluten-free, and I came from the land of wanting to be perfect.

Even our signs are perfect

At home, I barely ate any rice and bread. I never ate pasta, and  pizza was the sign of the devil. 

Hey wazzup Greg Harlin?

So arriving in Korea I've been finding the abundance of rice to be a tad overwhelming. So I've been making stir fries...

refer to the original pic

Stir fries are simple to make in your small Korean kitchen. If you are going to be a new traveler to South Korea, don't think that you'll get the exceptional big apartment with the massive kitchen that you've always wanted... chances are, you won't. 

This stir fry was made with these ingredients...

1. Tofu. --> Maybe about a quarter of a packet. Diced and quartered
1. If you are a medium-small sized girl that is enough for two servings.  
2. Enokitake mushrooms. --> Maybe about 1/5th of the packet. Cut into small 1/2 inch length pieces.
1. Generally the Enokitake mushroom packet provides a lot of mushrooms. I like my stir fry with a lot of mushroom crunch to it so I throw in a lot.
3. Eggplant. --> 1/3 or 1/2 of the skinny eggplant cut up and diced.
1. WARNING. For some weird reason it makes the rest of the meal turn slight blue-purple color.
4. Yellow Bell peper. --> Dice 1/4 of the bell pepper into small squares.
1. MAN! I used to hate pepper but I love it now!
5. Onion.--> Dice 1/4 of the onion into squares
6. Garlic.--> One garlic clove. Cut and dice.
7. Bragg's Liquid Aminos All Purpose Seasoning--> a few squirts. (I KNOW THIS DOESN'T HELP BUT I DON'T HAVE A MEASURING SYSTEM FOR THIS!!!)
8. Red Star Nutritional Yeast Flakes--> a few shakes. (I KNOW THIS DOESN'T HELP BUT I DON'T HAVE A MEASURING SYSTEM FOR THIS!!!)
9. A small amount of canola or olive oil for frying.

This is how I cooked it...

1. I started by frying the onions and garlic in the frying pan.
2. I fry it with some Red Star. 
3. Once it gets soft and crispy, I throw in the bell pepper, mushroom, and eggplant.
4. I give the vegetables maybe three or four minutes so that I know the veggies aren't hard. 
5. I squirt a bit of Bragg's.
6. Once everything looks and smells cooked, I throw in the the tofu. 
7. I mix it all up and them I'm done!!

#2

Black beans and cooked eggplant and bell pepper

Ok so I made this one time for my lunch at work. I went to the famous HomePlus (which is like a korean walmart or target) and bought about four canned black beans. 

This meal was a lot easier to make...

Heat the black beans in a pot.

In a different frying pan, stir fry some garlic and onions with some yeast.

Add pepper, eggplants and Bragg's afterwards.

YOU'RE DONE!

WARNING! Make sure that the black beans do not have any animal derivative products. 

I promise to keep adding more posts.

I am a failure.... A Vegan failure...

This week has been horrible in the vegan department. So horrible that I have been eating vegetarian.

duh duh DUHHHH

And believe me, I have been feeling sick because of it.

I've been so congested, so blocked up that I've been regretting every drink every bite like a business executive does after he comes out of a whorehouse.

But seriously I don't feel good. 

I don't know how vegetarians do it. It seems so hard to do. I feel icky and gross and I have the worst headache ever. 

Honestly this week I have to go vegan or zilch. 

But I've had other failures, mostly adventure failures. The first was the vegan bakery Veggie Holic.

Not my picture...Alien's Day Out's picture. I never found 

this

Saturday February 10,

This place sounded like heaven based on Alien's day out blog post here --> http://aliensdayout.com/2012/10/veggie-holic-bakery-new-location.html

I seriously follow this blogger like a golden god. It sounded perfect, vegan croissants, vegan bread, vegan yogurt, vegan godliness. I was so excited to go. I mapped out the subway route, I got a lot of money together, I was set. I even made it to the exact destination... or what I thought was the exact destination. For about a hour in the cold, I walked around random alleys and streets and found nothing. NOTHING. I know it is hidden in a secret street but I literally couldn't find it. When my phone died, I had to go back to the apartment in defeat. I came back to Dongdaemun as a failure. I thought it would be different today, I was wrong. 

Sunday February 11, Today I wanted to go to Loving Hut in Yonsei University. BOY WAS THAT A TOTAL FAILURE. I arrived at 3:45 and I saw a sign that said "Break time 3:30-4:30". So, I waited to 4:30.

still closed.

I waited to 5:00

still closed.

I got their number and had a soy latte at starbucks. I called them after maybe around 6:30

still closed.

What became evident was that this was not my three day weekend. I was not lucky  but MAN next weekend will be my day. I went to this mandu (dumpling) place afterwards with a friend because she told me it was vegan. 

Turns out there was eggs in it. I was so hungry that I ate it.

I feel sick :(

It has been a unlucky weekend.