July 28, 2005
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Again, on the topic of dreams: I absolutely ADORED my college pastor and his wife (John and Monica Hwang – GO KBC!!) and was thinking about them the other day. I google’d him, found him, and emailed him.
Then he emailed back: “… just last night I had a dream of meeting you in some remote part of the town. We accidentally bumped into each other. You were riding a motorcycle! Anyway, we spent whole day talking and eating. The dream was so real (I don’t usually dream!) that when I woke up, I told Monica that I should get in touch with “Ahrim.” And I received your e-mail.”
WEIRD!!!!! Here they are. They’re so cute!
Many of us who attended Korean Bible Church of Ann Arbor until 1997 saw all three of their boys as BABIES, and now they’re all grown up!
When you live abroad and you love food as much as I do, you either: a. appreciate certain foods more than you did before (vicariously, since these are foods I can’t get here); or b. enjoy things you never or rarely ate in your home country but can eat in your host country.
Here are the foods that fall into category a:
MMMMMMMM….
Not the coffee, necessarily, but the ability to sit in a Starbucks and meet with friends, read, veg…
Goi Banh Cuon: Steamed thin and tender rice crepe with ground baby shimp and scallion, served with cucumber, lettuce, bean sprouts, crushed peanut and fresh basil in nuoc cham sauce. DELISH.
Freshly squeezed orange juice at brunch with friends. Sigh.
Sharp cheddar cheese
Here are the foods that fall into category b:
Club Sandwich – I don’t even remember the last time I ate this in America. Of course, we don’t have avocado in ours.
BLT – I think I last ate one … when I was like 10 years old. The bacon sold here comes from Hungary. One weekend, I ate three or four of them. I’m surprised I haven’t died of a heart attack yet.
NEVER ate these in America but they are SOOO yummy. And addictive.
Instant ja-jang myun or ramen noodles for lunch. Not very yummy, but acceptable for a quick lunch here. The best kind comes from Russia and is called “rollton”.
Instant coffee. Not so bad when you put tons of sugar and milk in it. But not so good, either.
Comments (10)
aww… now i miss the hwangs…
that’s so cool about the Hwangs! i didn’t go to KBC but i remember helping Janie babysit the 2 oldest boys when they were just babies. those kids… it was too much… at one point, i had had enough, so i told janie “i’m going to get gim. i’ll be right back.” …and I ran and never returned. janie still tells this story
for lunch, i will eat a club sandwich in honor of you.
everytime we eat one of these items, we will think of you fondly….
but hey, you should talk about the amazing foods there that you can’t get in the States, like shashlik! mmmm, mmmm, GOOD!
no korean food cravings?
haha, gnu abandoned the boys on the pretense of getting GIM? that is hilarious. i remember discussing my exercise regimen with him one time in the Stockwell Blue Lounge. as in, how i didn’t have one (ok, and still don’t). he tried to convince me to start running for stress relief at the very least. he was like, what do you do when you feel pressure? you must release it somehow! when i told him i internalize it and prefer to just worry, he looked so horrified. haha.
oh “him” as in Hwang JDSN of course.
i love to read your xanga…
i love bacon
ohhhh… i miss the hwangs so much.. what’s their wed site? I miss them… =(