Tea house in Houston

Lil Gator and I enjoyed so much of 3 tier treats at teahouse in Houston, TX

We are so impressed by amount of food!

Blooming flower tea is our favorite!

Lil Gator smells fresh flowers on the table.

School life in Texas

Lil Gator cooked and packed his school lunch and enjoyed some break from homework/classes!

We are living in San Antonio, Texas

Lil Gator moved from west coast to Texas for the new opportunity.

San Antonio City Hall

Tex-Mex fusion food in Riverwalk

Lil Gator moved to WA state.

DMV in WA state

Lil Gator and I moved to WA state temperately and we have no idea how long we are going to be here. Anyhow, we registered the vehicle just in case and willing to explore in evergreen state for new adventure and fine food!

Wangkunsung-Chinese restaurant at Gubanpo, Seocho

 Seafood and mushroom soup

 Spicy shrimp

 Kong family liquor

Hot chili pepper and Bread

Lil Gator and I treated ourselves for great birthday dinner in the neighborhood. The place is our favorite Chinese restaurant since we came back in Seoul, we go there like simple Jajang myun for lunch and invite our family guests for dinner often.

They serve less oily, not too spicy or salty, and healthy choices in Chinese dishes because we are on low-sodium diet to take care of our health in general. 

Jamsil Baseball Stadium

 Samsung Lions

 Jamsil Stadium

Cass Beer ( Korean Beer)

Lil Gator and I always wanted to watch the Korean Pro Baseball game and our dream came true! There are 8 pro teams in Korea and LG Twins and Doosan Bears are sharing the Jamsil stadium in the season.

Samsung Lions from Daegu came to Seoul for 3 games.

It was really nice we had Korean snacks with Korean beer during the game.

Garak Market - Part II Fish shops

 Fish tank and we negotiated the price of fish

 The fisherman caught fish, abalones and ascidians

Tada! The fish became sashimi dinner for Lil Gator

Garak market is so huge and hundreds of shops are next to each other. We have never seen so many seafood shops before. Some pickled seafood shops sold famous Korean side dishes and ingredients of Kimchi.
Lil Gator and I wanted to have sashimi dinner and spicy seafood soup with rice! The fisherman was able to catch the fish and cut it as sashimi pieces less than 5 minutes. We were so amazed by his skills!

Garak Market- Part I Vegetable shops

Bellpeppers and Potatoes

What should I buy?

Lil Gator and I are going back to the States (Washington state) next month. So, we decided to check on new places before we head back to the States.
Garak market is like Korean traditional shops in South side of Seoul where people can buy and sell vegetables and seafood. Everything is very cheap and fresh from local farms.
Lil Gator always loves spicy food and chilies. He even sat on the chili box!

Caffe Bene in Seocho, Seoul

The United States has Starbucks and Korea has Caffe Bene! Lil Gator and I are coffee lovers and desserts. We ordered Cafe Latte, Garlic cheese bread, Yuzu/Citrus flavored ice cream and strawberry Waffle. Garlic cheese bread had sweet, garlicky, cheddar cheese tastes and it was perfect brunch for us.

Japanese Donkatsu - Donsamo restuarant in Seoul!

I felt so much better to go out eat something, which Lil Gator and I always like. I used to eat Donkatsu almost everyday when I was in Japan last year. We think it can be better than Sushi sometimes. The Japanese style of deep fried pork cutlet is so crispy, tender, mind flavor and dip into special Donkatsu sauce. We ordered the Donkatsu Combo with wheat noodle soup, rice...Of course, Kimchi!
After we finished to eat all of them, Lil Gator wanted to eat some dessert. He picked the Korean ice cream bar and it was delicious, crunchy and strawberry flavor. It was our another great dinner in Korea.

Emperor Chinese Restaurant (at Frenchtown/ Seorae Village, Seoul)

It is the Presidents day ( Washington's birthday) in the United States! Oh, well... it is just any other day in Korea here. Lil Gator and I wanted to treat ourselves for great Chinese food nearby the home. Most of Chinese restaurants in Korea are quite Korean style, and more spicy dishes however, Emperor Chinese restaurant serves more close to Shandong Chinese style by Chinese chef and owner. It was not too spicy and flavorful on each dish and Lil Gator loved Jajang noodle( Stir fried seafood with black bean paste ).

French town in Seoul (Seorae Village), Korea

Hello everyone! Lil Gator is back in Korea! Can you believe it? We started the journey of adventure and food again. Lil Gator and I love to drink coffee and dessert in the morning, so we stopped by the Cafe Gallery in Frenchtown/Seorae village, Seoul for Latte and Cheese Souffle. The barista made a cute teddy bear on our latte and we were so impressed! The lightly baked cheese souffle was puffy, soft, and sweet!

At Chicago airport

When I and Lil Gator arrived in La Crosse airport, I got a message from American Airline that our flight canceled in the morning! We were so worried if we were not able to go back home anytime soon. Luckily, the lady was canceling her flight so, we could wait for a couple of hours and hop into the afternoon flight to Chicago!
We saw full of snow outside of window at Chicago airport, it didn't look much different as Wisconsin. We drank hot chocolate and waited for the flight to go to San Francisco!

Wisconsin Beer and Tom & Jerry!

There is my favorite thing of WI is drinking local beers! I always order local beers whenever I go to WI,and Of course, fried cheese curds!
Lil Gator tried Tom and Jerry without Rum, he enjoyed to drink it up in cold winter.

Let it snow! ( Back to Wisconsin)

Lil Gator and I are back to the Wisconsin to spend time with family during Christmas season. We got a bunch of Packers goodies for Christmas gifts and Lil Gator was very excited to try them on.
We also walked around on the snow for a while, it was pretty cool to walk outside when snowflakes were falling from the sky.

Little Italy- North Beach District, San Francisco

It is always fun to hang out everywhere in San Francisco, so Lil Gator and I decided to go to Little Italy for dinner. We ate 2 slices of combination pizza, Italian beer and vanilla cream puffs and everything was so delicious!

( We also bought some thin sliced Italian Salami and Coppa, Lil Gator wanted to have it as his late night snack!)

Raiders game in Oakland,CA

Lil Gator and I thought about how we were going to spend time on Sunday. Lil Gator told me he wanted to go to the Raiders game in Oakland Coliseum rather than watching on TV.
It was very difficult to park the car and got searched before entering the gate...etc We had to be so patient to go through all unexpected events there.
It was really nice to go to the game and Raiders won, too! Believe or not, Lil Gator stared at Raiderettes whenever they appeared and danced in front of him!

San Francisco Giants homecoming parade

Yes! The torture is over! Finally, SF Giants won the World Series 2010~! Lil Gator was eager to see all Giants heroes on the homecoming parade in SF downtown. The downtown was filled with a crowd, and more than a million people came to see the parade.
We loved to be a part of this joyful moment and so blessed to be there! Thank you SF Giants!