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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Our House in Laos & our Lao Garden🍊

Today we took a walk around the house and our garden. The house is down a little road with a motorcycle repair shop and a noodle restaurant. In Lao cities, the neighborhoods are like little villages. They even have village chiefs! Each village also has a neighborhood Wat (temple)

Our house is in the village of Ma. The sign says Ban Ma, which in Lao means Village Ma.

Here is the gate in front of the house. If you look closely, you can see the red roof.

This is Ton (tone) the gardener. He comes about once every three weeks to help mow the lawn, clean up fallen leaves,
take care of the plants, and do other gardening stuff.

I was sad to leave our plum tree in America, but our Lao Garden has even more fruit trees!

Here are some fruits we picked.
Left to right: a fruit that our market guidebook called Maak Wa, and 2 limes. We also have kaffir limes (you don't eat these, but you can cook with the leaves and they smell nice).

Little fruits. These are supposed to be really sour.

A fallen kaffir lime.

Custard apples! These have a bizarre texture, but taste amazing. Usually the fruits are covered in ants because the cracks leak sweet stuff.

Beautiful tiny pomegranates! These are about the size of my fist. They turn rainbow colors and look very nice, but they won't turn red. We picked one and it was REALLY sour. I guess we'll have to figure out when pomegranate season is.

These guavas are not ready for eating yet. My dad said some types of guava turn pink on the inside when they're ripe.

A lime. You can tell that its not a kaffir lime because those are lumpy and covered in bumps. Also, kaffir leaves have weird segments.When lime-picking it is very important to watch out for thorns!

The neighbor's coconut tree. Ours doesn't have any fruit.

An interesting flower my dad found before my mom, sister, and I arrived. Sadly, it wilted before I could see it.

Another strange flower. I don't know what it is.

Seed pods on the ground.

A (currently mango-less) mango tree.

Aloe Vera. Apparently it's good for sunburns.

I think a dog may have stepped in the wet cement....

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The morning market in Luang Prabang, Laos🌄 라오스 루앙프라방의 아침시장

Today is our second day in Luang Prabang, and we wanted to see the morning market. Daddy heard that "the morning market is for locals and the night market is for tourists". We thought that the morning market would be less touristy and it would have more traditional everyday sort of things than the night market, which we had already been to.

오늘은 루앙프라방에서의 두번째날이고 우리는 아침시장에 가기를 원했습니다. 아빠가 듣기에 아침시장은 이 지역사람들을 위해 열리고 야시장은 관광객을 위해 열린다고 합니다. 그래서 아침시장은 여행객들이 적고 이미 가 본 야시장보다 좀 더 전통적으로 일상적일거라고 생각했습니다.

Me and the baby corn we bought to eat on the way to the market. The person who sold the corn had a little cook stove to cook the corn on. She gave it to us in bundles of three, with the husks still on them. I think it was steamed.
시장에 가는 길에 먹기 위해 산 아기옥수수와 나. 이 옥수수의 상인은 옥수수를 익히는 작은 스토브를 가지고 있었습니다. 상인은 세 개를 하나로 묶은 뭉치를 주었는데 껍질이 여전히 붙어 있었습니다. 내 생각에는 찐 옥수수였습니다.

This little piggy went to market! ^v^
아기 돼지가 시장에 갔어요!

Fruit seller: closest to farthest: rambutan, dragon fruit,yellow mangoes.
The fruit seller sold the fruit by the kilogram - about 2 dollars a kilo for many things.
과일 상인: 가까운 곳부터: 람부탄, 용과, 노란 망고. 과일 상인은 킬로그램으로 과일을 팔았습니다. 많은 것들이 킬로당 2달러 정도였습니다.

Little round eggplants. So pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
작은 가지들. 아주 예뻐요!!!!

Mommy took this picture of me taking a picture of the pretty little eggplants.
엄마가 예쁜 가지 사진을 찍고 있는 저의 사진을 찍어 주셨어요.

Lemon grass(the long, thin stuff), ginger (the brown, chunky things), and ... a weird green vegetable (the weird green things)...
레몬그레스 (길고 얇은 것), 생강 (갈색이고 도톰한것들) 그리고... 이상한 녹색 채소 (이상한 녹색 것들)...

A row of hot peppers on top, and on bottom (left to right) some fruit from a palm tree (I think), galangal, banana flowers, and more lemongrass.
맨위 줄의 고추와 밑(왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로) 야자수 열매(내 생각에), 갈랑갈, 바나나 꽃과 레몬그레스.

Grasshoppers and eels - I will leave it to my readers to figure out which is which...
메뚜기와 뱀장어 - 독자들께서 어떤게 어떤것인지 판단하도록 남겨 놓겠습니다.

A lot of green veggies
여러가지 녹색채소들

Somebody's pet bird? Tied to a basket.
누군가의 애완새? 바구니에 매여있습니다.

Rabbits and iguanas for sale...
토끼와 이구아나팝니다...

Dried squid on top and something else (dried fish??) on the bottom.
무엇인가 (말린 생선?) 위에 얹혀진 말린 오징어

Cat - not for sale.
고양이 - 는 판매 안합니다.

Bamboo baskets for steamed sticky rice, and maybe other things.
찰밥과 다른 것들을 찌는 대나무 바구니

A cart for packing your stuff at the end of the market day.
장이 파하면 상인들이 물건을 담는 카트.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

✒️The Market (시장)🍱🍣🐡

Today we went to the market. The market's name is kuromon market. It means black gate market because there used to be a temple with a black gate in the spot where they built it. Inside there are a lot of shops and Sushi restaurants. My mom wanted to go eat Sushi at a restaurant she heard about so first we went there.

오늘 시장에 갔는데 시장 이름은 구로몬 시장 (黒門市場) 입니다. 까만 문이 달린 사원이 있던 장소에 시장을 지었기 때문에 구루몬 시장이라는 이름이 붙었다 합니다. 엄마가 들은 적이 있는 수시 레스토랑에 먼저 갔습니다.

This is what the Sushi looked like.

그 수시가 이렇게 생겼어요.

The first few bites

처음의 몇 입.

Puffer fish

After we ate all the sushi, it was time to explore the market. After awhile, we passed a puffer fish restaurant. My dad told me that puffer fish are poisonous so you need a special license to cook them, and when they're cooked right there's just enough poison to make your tongue tingle.

수시를 다 먹고 시장을 탐방할 시간이었습니다. 얼마 후 복어식당을 지났어요. 아빠가 말씀하시기를 복어는 독성이 있어서 특별한 자격증이 있어야 요리를 할 수 있고, 요리를 잘 했다면 적당한 독성이 남아 혀를 간지럽힌다고 합니다.

This is the puffer fish tank. Jina wanted the puffer fish to puff up, but the fish didn't think Jina was scary enough. Some of the fish cost almost $300!!!

이것은 복어 탱크입니다. 진아가 복어를 부풀어 오르게 하고 싶어했으나 복어는 진아가 무섭다고 생각하지 않았어요. 어떤 복어는 거의 미화 300불 가까이 했어요!

Hey, this isn't a real puffer fish! And why did it eat my foot?!!!!!!!

이보세요, 이건 진짜 복어가 아니라고요! 그리고 왜 내 발을 먹었죠?!!

😝

Friday, April 3, 2015

✒️April Fools Post (만우절 포스팅)😉

Hello! Now I'm beginning my travels in a place I've never ever been to before: Japan! I'm sorry I didn't post this sooner, but I needed more time to write this so now you're reading it and I've posted it so now everyone's happy even though it's not April Fools Day. Now for the real stuff.

안녕하세요! 저는 전에 한번도 가보지 못한 곳, 일본으로의 여행을 시작하려 합니다. 이걸 빨리 포스팅하지 못한걸 죄송하게 생각하지만 4월 1일 만우절이 지났지만 이걸 쓰는데 시간이 좀 더 필요했기 때문이므로 이해해 주세요. 본론으로 들어 가겠습니다.

I've posted pictures of food; some of the pictures are of real food, and some are fake food from the display cases in the restaurants to show you what the food will look like when you order it. Try to guess wich is wich! (Japan has some pretty realistic fake food. Just warning you!)

음식사진들을 올립니다; 어떤 사진은 진짜 음식을 찍은 것이고, 어떤 것들은 음식점에서 주문하기 전에 음식이 어떻게 생겼는지를 보여 주기 위해 디스플레이 장식장에 있는 가짜 음식을 찍은 것입니다. 어떤게 어떤것인지 맞춰보세요. (일본은 정말 진짜같은 가짜음식을이 있답니다. 그냥 경고를 드리는 거예요!)

DELICIOUS ICE CREAM!! Left: strawberry, right choco. The cut off part (sorry about the odd trimming) is a yummy sweet drink with whipped cream on top. I had to hurry to take a photo of that whipped cream before it melted.

맛난 아이스크림! 좌: 딸기, 우: 초코. 밑의 잘린부분(이상하게 사진을 잘라 죄송합니다) 은 휘핑크림이 얹어져 있는 맛있는 단 음료입니다. 휘핑크림이 녹기 전에 서둘러 사진을 찍어야 했답니다.

No idea what this meat is... Jina really liked it though. I think they cut the yellow thing on top spiky like that to make it look nice and fancy.

이 고기가 뭔지는 모르겠어요... 그러나 진아가 아주 좋아했어요. 제 생각에는 위에 있는 노란 것은 음식을 더 멋져 보이게 하기 위해 뾰족하게 자른것 같아요.

Soba Noodles, my favorite! Daddy told me that people ate these because white rice doesn't have enough of some types of vitamin B in it so people ate soba noodles. They don't have much flavor when they're plain, so you can dip them in a sauce.

메밀 국수는 제가 제일 좋아하는 것이예요. 아빠가 말씀하시길 사람들이 하얀 쌀밥에 어떤 종류의 비타민 B가 충분하지 않기 때문에 메밀 국수을 먹었다고 합니다. 맛이 특별히 많지 때문에 소스에 찍어 먹을 수 있어요.