Spicy foods breakthrough 'kimchi superfood?'

    I grew up with constant upset stomach which automatically detoxify after eating spicy foods. In other words, a little chilli sauce could just send me to the restroom.  Before I came to Korea, I was worried how I would survive with all the Korean spicy foods around. 

Rice with black sauce, spicy kimchi, bibimeon and sea weed soup.

    Like for every Korean dish, if you see red-stew-like color be rest assured it's chilli! Whilst in Zimbabwean dishes if you see red-popping it's definitely a tomato. 

So yaah, at first  I thought maybe I would find tomato stewed menus in Korea.. Alas! There wasn't any.

Korean food: rice with spicy chicken, soup, spicy kimchi cabbage and radish type  and soy pan cake.

    Then, I guess my gastrointestinal system got aware of it and decided to normalize.  Yaah, you heard me well, from the first day I ate kimchi, I never experienced any "running stomach" or grumpiness. So it's now that I really wonder what is the secret nutrient in the fermented Kimchi that stopped my lifetime chilli-triggered upset stomach. Up to now I can't figure out but I can say, the Kimchi fermented microbiomes corrected my gastro-fauna to accept all the chilli. Forget the 'microbiome' term lol, just know that kimchi settles well in my stomach now!!

Raw sea food kimchi.

So yeah you can guess the taste of kimchi, it's fermented so yaa that kombucha/vinegarish taste is the one I enjoy whenever I eat it. 

Thank you for reading my spicy food breakthrough 'Kimchi superfood' story. Please check out my videos where I was enjoying Kimchi. 

My next blog I will share tips on how to select Korean menu for non-korean speakers.

How I mastered using Chopsticks

I knew Asian community uses chopsticks to eat. From the TV programs I noticed that they were 2-types of chopsticks, the wooden and stainless steel types. I wasn't surprised to see chopsticks the day I first ate Korean meal in Korea back then on 26th of March 2011, "Bulgugi rice' at Keimyung University.

Since it was my first meal, I just used the spoon throughout. I tried chopsticks for  a short while but they were sliding from my hands, yes, they were falling down on the floor not on the table.  😂😂

So I thought, 🤔 how will I manage for the next 3-years. Few days later an idea came to me. I had to practice till I perfect my chopstick eating skill.

I had to buy and eat Ramen, not with a spoon

but with chopsticks. Please check my Spoon the Ramen challenge

Luckily they sold wooden chopsticks attached to cup Ramen. That was the beginning of my success story to handling stainless steel chopsticks. I repeatedly tried on other foods then 😎 I became a pro. Now I can even cook with chopsticks, yeah 😂. I hope you enjoyed reading my chopsticks success story in-few-words. Have you ever tried chopsticks? Please check my YouTube video where I was trying to cook chicken with chopsticks.

My next blog, I will share my kimchi taste review. 

Thank you! Kamsahamnida.

My experience with Korean characters in-few-words

My journey to Korea started in November 2011 when I was offered a scholarship to pursue Masters degree in Materials Science and Engineering. I accepted the offer ONLY because they said the courses were in English. I JUST knew Chinese characters from several products that we buy. Honestly I had to google and see how the Korean language looks like I somehow saw that Korean characters were easy to look at as compared to complex Chinese characters. (안녕하세요 - HELLO in Korean) I am sure you can also confirm that Korean characters are easier to look at and not that complicated like Chinese characters. I then printed a paper of few phrases on how to get around, believe me I didn't even use them.

When I arrived at Incheon International airport, 

the struggle got real, NO-ONE was speaking English, they were speaking Korean. I started wondering if the courses were really going to be offered in English. First week in the Korean Language School hehehehe 🤣🤣, it wasn't true "it-wasn't-true" we learnt Korean language in Korean. The only English that I heard in class was O-KE-YI (Ko-nglish OK). It was like a Greek lesson though I don't know how Greek sounds lol. My jaws were tight, I couldn't follow confidently the pronunciation sounds. This went on and on for several weeks until I started grasping few words in class. Writing the alphabet wasn't difficult but hahaha the pronunciation was something else, I felt like I was speaking another Shona dialect lol. [SHONA is Zimbabwean Language]

That was my experience with Korean characters in-few-words. Now I am glad that I CAN distinguish Asian characters without struggle. I hope you enjoyed reading my experience, please let me know in the COMMENTS, your thoughts about ASIAN LANGUAGES. If you like my blog please follow me.

Please check out my YouTube video on tips of selecting Korean menu for non-KOREAN speakers.

My next blog is on My experience with chop sticks in-few-words.