Snack Crate From Korea

Got another snack crate box! Didn’t make a video this time… It said Korea and I was like I’m on it!  I love Korean anything, whether it be Korean food, dramas, kpop, and culture.  I really hope one day I will be able to visit South Korea! There’s so many places I want to visit, so many places I want to shop at especially makeup products!  Anyway, enough about that so we decided to get the Original box this time plus the drink upgrade.

It came with some really good stuff, although half of the product I could get at any local Korean store around me.  But you know what that’s ok because I probably wouldn’t have bought it without knowing what it was.

So the first snack is a Custard soft cupcake and it’s exactly that. I think I've had some with more custard filling than this one had.  It was soft and fluffy not too sweet I like it but would not buy it.

Next is what they describe as a French pie.  It's like a thin soft puff pastry with jam on top similar to a danish or a turnover.  I would get these again but it’s a little messy to eat crumbs EVERYWHERE.

This is called Gosomi; it is a wheat cracker with a hint of sweetness great to have with tea and coffee

These were thin wafers filled with white cream or coffee flavor.  It was good but I’m not a fan

Choco-pie! Chocolate covered cookies with marshmallow filling.  I liked it.

These peanut sandwich cookies tasted just like nutter-butter.

Lotte Milkis was interesting... It was like a carbonated yogurt drink it reminded me of those small yogurt drink in the tiny bottles with a foil top which I'm not that big of a fan.  But this drink I can get used too.  The first sip tasted lightly sweet and nice with the carbonation but then you get a slight sour after taste of yogurt at the end which was ok.  I would probably drink this once in a while.

PPushu PPushu I'm assuming the name comes from the sound of the bag being crushed?  It is a BBQ flavor ramen chips, have you ever taken a bag of ramen noodles crushed it up, add the seasoning packet, and shook it like crazy?  Well, this is not the ones you boil, you’re supposed to eat it all crushed up like a cracker according to the description.  It was good, would I get it again? No… It was nice to try it at least once, though.

Pepero basically it is Pocky.  This one is a cookie and cream flavor which is one of my all time favorite flavors

Looking through the booklet I see that they replaced Secome Dalcom with Choco Heim instead which I'm kind of bum because the candy sounds delicious I love fruity candies but it's ok so the Choco Heim we received is a crunchy wafer stick with chocolate hazelnut filling.  It was good.

The last item in the box is Kancho which is basically another version of the brand Meiji Hello Panda nothing special.

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San Diego Zoo

So I’ve been slacking on posting.  After getting better from my cold, I was pretty much congested for another week.  I didn’t want to take more medications but eventually I did give in and got some Sudafed for pressure + pain.  I was getting headaches every day and there was so much pressure in my face I couldn’t take it any longer.  After only taking a day worth of Sudafed I definitely felt better!

Anyway, here is another late post from the holidays.  My little cousins wanted to go to the San Diego Zoo.  This was when I was starting to feel under the weather but I took them because there was nothing that could change their minds and I didn't want to disappoint them.  We went during the weekday so it wasn’t too bad.  My boyfriend and I only stayed on one side of the zoo unfortunately because I was starting to not feel well as time went on.  My aunt and cousins took off on their own which was better for them.  I would have just slowed everyone down.  It was a pretty nice day at the zoo.  Most animals were still sleeping at the time.  There is a lot of construction going on as well.

Towards the end of our trip, we took the sky cabin to go see the polar bears as well as make our way to the elephants.  On the way back to the front we took the sky cabin back and got to see the baby gorilla running around! It was so cute! We left around 1:30 since my boyfriend had work that night.

Before I went home though I made sure to pick up some medicine because sure enough when I woke up the next day I was totally sick.  Anyway, that was our day at the zoo, I barely took any pictures.  If and when I do get the chance to go again I will definitely be taking more pictures.  Thanks for reading!

Sleeping Koala, he actually moved a little bit.

Breakfast

The first panda was sleeping but this dude was up and about.

Honestly, I stopped taking pictures after seeing the eyes.  It felt so empty

and lonely, but who knows that's just how I see it.  He or she (I don't remember the gender) could have just woken up from their sleep and be like what the heck are all these people doing in front of my window

Thai Temple

I’ve been a little bit under the weather but I’m finally getting over my cold!  I’m just a little congested now.  It started out as the stomach flu then ended up getting sick right after.  So not feeling good during the holidays was a huge bummer especially since my cousins from Washington came to visit.  I haven’t seen them in 2-3 years and they’ve grown so much!  Anyway, I didn’t take many pictures this holiday since I was busy driving everyone around and getting last minute things done.  Plus I was becoming super exhausted with little sleep I didn’t even think about taking pictures.

One of the places we visited was the Thai Temple in Los Angeles.  It’s been a while since I’ve visited this Temple.  We came on a weekday and they only serve food on the weekends.  Also instead of cash you exchange it for tokens at the token booth.  I love all the details put into this temple it’s so beautiful! 

Once you walk in there is a beautiful shrine with various donation boxes that you can contribute too.  On the side, there is a smaller area to pray for your fortune/wish for the new year.  After you finish praying there is a cup with a lot of sticks that are numbered.  Before you shake the cup up and down you make a wish for the new year and then start to shake until one stick falls out. Once you get your stick look at the number and put the stick back in the cup.  On the side there is a case that looks like a bookshelf, find your number to get your fortune paper.  The numbers are in red on the wall of the case on the top left corner above each paper.  After getting your fortune, you give a donation to the box in front of the are where the sticks were.

My aunts told me that you can make up to 3 wishes if the ones before turned out to be bad luck. I don’t know how true that is, so don’t quote me.

Anyway,  I’ve posted some pictures of the temple, hope you enjoy!  Thanks for reading.

Where you pray for your fortune and wish for the new year

before shaking the cup with the sticks

My cousin shaking the cup

Where to find your paper.