Let me drink another mug and say Cheers! Good life is ahead...
Happy April Fools!!!
hugs,
joanie xxx
Think of this as the Iron Chef for rice cake. The winner will not only get fame, they will also win 2,000,000 won. You heard me correctly. 2 million won. The Second Place winner will win 1 million won, Third Place 500,000, and fourth 300,000. Not bad huh?
Tteok (pronounced [t͈ʌk]) (also spelled ddeock, duk, dduk, ddeog, or thuck) is a Korean cake made with glutinous rice flour (also known as sweet rice or chapssal), by steaming. Normal rice flour can be used for some kinds of tteok. There are hundreds of different kinds of tteok eaten year round. In Korea it is customary to eat tteok guk (tteok soup) on New Year's Day and sweet tteok at weddings and on birthdays. It is often considered a celebratory food and can range from rather elaborate versions with nuts and fruits down to the plain-flavored tteok used in home cooking. Some common ingredients for many kinds of tteok are mung bean, red bean, and sweet red bean paste, Korean mugwort, jujube and other dried fruits, sesame seeds and oil, sugar, andpine nuts.
Image from here If only I was still in the country for this I would so be there.
David Chang is a noted American chef. He is chef/owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York City.[1]
His Parents are Korean .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chang
Package 350 dollars for 8-10 people
Bo Ssam with sauces, Lettuce and rice
choose 4 seasonal Items
10 pork buns
cole slaw
sweet potato puree
brussels sprouts
azuli beans with bacon
kimchi apples
collard greens
Blondie pie
Chang opened Momofuku Noodle Bar in 2004 after having an epiphany: "Why can't I cook something simple? I'm not an awesome cook—I just want to make noodles." MacFarquhar writes, "The idea of Noodle Bar from the start was to take the humblest meal—a bowl of noodles, a pork bun—and, with a combination of obsessive devotion and four-star technique, turn it into something amazing."
Mr. Chang was born in northern Virginia, where his father, an immigrant from South Korea, worked in the restaurant industry, eventually opening a restaurant. His family wanted Mr. Chang to go into law or finance, but he studied religion in college and graduated with no particular goal. In his early 20's, he lived in London, taught English in Japan and had a variety of jobs in New York, from bussing tables to working in the finance industry. Finally, he enrolled in culinary school. He worked at Mercer Kitchen in Manhattan, then got a job in the kitchen at Craft after agreeing to answer phones for a month. After two years at Craft, he returned to Japan and worked at a small soba shop, then at a restaurant in the Tokyo Park Hyatt, followed by a year at Café Boulud in New York. Saying he was ''completely dissatisfied with the whole fine dining scene'' and its pretentiousness, he decided to open his own restaurant -- working with his Momofuku partner and co-chef, Joaquin Baca.
Maybe some nice Sam gyup salLIKE style on the runway, style for pigs is changeable. With their abundant fat, the curly-haired Mangalitsa pigs of Hungary were all the rage a century ago. But as time went on, they became has-beens.
Now that succulent pork is back in fashion, the Mangalitsa — saved from near extinction on a farm here at the edge of Hungary’s bleak and barren Great Plain — are making a comeback.
Text from the NEW YORK TIMES here
LaMB diadaptasi dari naskah karya penonton Animax asal Filipina, Carmelo Juinio, yang menang kompetisi penulisan naskah film animasi, Animax Award 2007. Ceritanya tentang seorang dokter bernama Jack Griswold yang ditugaskan di Cerra.
Cerra adalah planet yang diselimuti gurun pasir berjarak 25 tahun cahaya dari bumi. Di sana, manusia mencari penebusan dosa atas perilaku mereka yang menghancurkan dunia. Cerra juga tempat isolasi para criminal yang diperlakukan sebagai budak virtual. Mereka harus memakai kostum berlapisan khusus (laminasi). So, mereka lah yang disebut LaMB.
Dalam menjalankan tugas, dr. Jack dibantu oleh seorang LaMB bernama Eve1135. Tapi akhirnya, Jack dan Eve malah terlibat cinta lokasi. Fiuh!! Meskipun mimik muka tokoh-tokohnya masih kurang ekspresif, tapi cerita dan visualisasi animasi arahan sutradara Thomas Chou ini cukup futuristik.
Anyway, film animasi yang digarap di studio berbasis di Singapor ini bakal tayang di Animax tanggal 24 Maret 2009 pukul 19.00 WIB. Bagian kedua ditayangkan tanggal 31 Maret 2009. Eits, The Making of LaMB juga bakal diputar tanggal 17 Maret 2009. Don’t miss it yah!!