19 Dec

Maybe because it was Friday night, and also the last Friday before Christmas, but there seemed to be quite a number of large groups going for after-work dinner or Christmas parties. At first I was going for the galbi BBQ because I thought I hadn’t tried it before, until I found out that it was the same marinade that’s used in the DIY Korean BBQ. I picked the spicy pork so we could compare it to Miga ($17), and also the galbi stew ($20). We considered the ginseng...

20:04 / Christchurch / Korean / Mum's 24 Restaurant / New Zealand / Travel
19 Dec

[caption id="attachment_7106" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fish and Chips - Gunard, Salad, Tartare ($25)[/caption] We took the scenic route to Akaroa (a French-influenced coastal town), following Summit Road. Once at Akaroa we shared a serve of fish and chips from Harbar Beach Café and Bar, enjoying the view from the large window fronting the sea. The fish for today was gunard and its batter was quite light and crispy ($25). The aioli was quite nice too. After that we reparked the car closer to the main shopping strip on Beach Rd. We...

12:53 / Akaroa / Fast Food / Harbar Beach Café and Bar + The Akaroa Fish and Chip Shop / New Zealand / Seafood / Travel
18 Dec

More Korean! I was originally going to get dolsot bibimbap, but went with kimchi dolsot bibimbap instead (both $16). I know it exists but I haven’t seen it on a menu yet so I thought I may as well try. The three portions of kimchi replaced a few of the other veggies they normally serve in their bibimbap and the gochujang represented one of the sections, rather than being free to add by customers. I chose beef, though pork, tuna and tofu were also options. It was nice, though...

14:17 / Dunedin / Korea House / Korean / New Zealand / Travel
17 Dec

On the way to the Moeraki Boulders we stopped at the Victorian town of Oamaru. There’s mainly art and craft shops, bookshops, artisan stores like limestone carving and glassblowers, a bakery, ice creamery and also a steampunk museum, which looked interesting, but there was a $10 entry fee and we didn't have much time to spend there, so we didn’t enter. Harbour St Bakery had bread, nice-looking pies and sweets like custard-filled croissants and other pastries. The two that caught my eye were the macaroon (gevulde koek, $5)...

14:34 / Dessert/Sweets / Harbour St Bakery / New Zealand / Oamaru / Travel
17 Dec

Since it was 7:30pm and on the way to the hotel, we visited Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese for dinner. I ordered gamjatang, which was spicy pork bone and potato stew with vegetables. Dad wanted either the bulgogi or the o-sam/o-jingoh/buldak/buldaejie (pork+squid, squid, chicken, pork: they were all stir-fried with a gochujang-based sauce, so basically the same but slightly different because of flavours imparted by the different meats used). I suggested the pork and squid because I thought they’d add nice flavours to the sauce. I also didn’t...

12:38 / Dunedin / Korean / Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese / New Zealand / Travel
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