korea fo rea

the past 2 weeks just flew by and i'm back at home, wondering if it was all a dream. we left after midnight and oddly enough, about two hours into the flight, they served a meal. i don't know why, but i had a mad case of the munchies. A caveat to the weak of heart: these pictures may disgust you.

i opted for the beef, which was as drab as my picture, but beggars can't be choosers mang. it came with some potato salad w/ ham, a stale roll, and some cheesecake.

while my sis got the bibimbap (which I ate too). It came with some miyuk gook (seaweed soup) and some pickles with some fruit for dessert. not bad pig...not bad at all if you squeezed out all the gochoojang (red pepper paste) on it. After 3 glasses of wine (I amusedly watched the guy next to us down at least 5 glasses of wine, but no drama for your baby's mama), I passed out for a couple hours and awoke just in time for breakfast.

Green tea porridge. This was surprisingly good.

We arrived at Incheon a few hours later, only to be greeted by gloomy, rainy weather. Took a bus to a smaller airport and waited a few hours to go to Jejudo, an island off the southern tip, so we explored the airport.

loads of these machines all over korea.

Korea has been becoming more and more westernized over the years, and I saw plenty of these joints around Seoul.

A display of some of the goods. (At the time, the dollar was about 1200 won woot).

Food here wasn't that expensive (compared to the U.S although obviously more than what it would cost elsewhere). We ended up going into a random joint for a late breakfast/whatever meal it was in the US as the time was 16 hours ahead. I got the kimchi udon.

Kimchi ramen straight from the package (they didn't try to front here and proudly had the boxes out for all to see), but still good when you're hungry.

Needless to say, I got a lot of reading done. Goggles! Damn I'm still jetlagged.

Reclaiming my Sundays

Going up Grand over the hills and far away,

you come across the Stater Bros Plaza on your right side, and in it is Manna Donuts, a 24 hour donut shop that also serves sandwiches.

Bought a dozen for $6.50 to bring into work. Why? Because today is my last day working Sundays, and I wanted to celebrate. Props to all those that work every day. I just couldn't do it anymore and needed one day off the week to recoup. Jelly, crumb, maple bar, chocolate bar, glazed twist, and two rainbow sprinkles. They are not stingy w/ the jelly and use better quality stuff that actually tastes like raspberry instead of syrup. I'm also a fan of their maple bars. Their cake donuts are delicious. None of their donuts(at least the ones I've tried) are overly oily.

I also ordered the tuna sandwich for lunch (no picture sorry) for $4 bucks. You get a choice of a sub or croissant and I chose the sub. It's definitely a fatty sandwich on a somewhat airy piece of bread(I wonder if they make their own here), and the tuna salad was plain along w/ all the standard lettuce tomato, etc. A good sandwich for what you pay, but I would have appreciated some chopped onions and celery in my salad.

Overall a pretty good donut shop that also gets +1 star for being 24 hours and serving sandwiches.



My new addiction/upper to keep me going in the mornings. It's not too sweet and has a sort of plant-y (I know that's not a word, but I can't find the right word to really describe the taste) and herby flavor mixed in w/ whatever one you get. The original is fine w/ me although here I have the passion fruit and pomegranate flavors. I try to switch it up. I find that for myself it gives me just the right amount of the caffeine kick I need to stay awake in class. How do you stay up w/o caffeine or any drug? I'm always tired and need to find healthier alternatives to stay awake.

*Just looked up the key ingredients in the Passion flavor: catuaba and damiana. These herbs have a variety of remedial claims, one of them being an aphrodisiac, hence the name "Passion."

Sundays come and go too quickly. Time to enter the rat race once again.

Ain't no thang but a chicken wang

Hello again. Sorry, I know I have been lagging with the updates. I just finished taking my finals, but the hustle never stops. School and work are wearing me down. Have you ever read or watched Harry Potter? My O-chem lab feels just like a Potions class. You have to be real careful and good with your technique, and that's no joke kid.

A quick shoutout/congrats to my two buds who made it to Western U for Veterinary Medicine. Party time! Hopefully I'll be joining you next year.

I haven't had too many exciting eats lately, but I plan to capitalize the free time I will have this week and the next. So without further ado...

Wing Stop. I had tried this place once on a previous occasion in Chino (in the 24 Hour Fitness Plaza).


They have a variety of bottled beers, but the only thing they had on tap was Newcastle and Bud Light. I told the guy I wanted the Newcastle, and he poured me a Bud. When I pointed this out, he asked if I wanted the Bud. Whoohoo, free beer!

I guess this place is popular for offering a variety of different flavors for their wings: Atomic, Cajun, Original Hot, Mild, Hickory Smoked BBQ, Lemon Pepper, Garlic Parmesan, Hawaiian, Teriyaki. You can sample their sauces before you choose. If you're wondering what the Hawaiian was, it was just a simple sweet and sour sauce. I ended up getting 10 wings, where you could choose 2 different flavors, and got the Hot and BBQ. The pictures I took with my phone aren't worth posting up, since I took better ones today, but I will say that there wasn't a whole lot of meat on the wings, and the BBQ flavor was nothing to write home about. I don't know about it being "smoked." It just tasted really sweet to me. The hot was a bit tangy and decent. I'm guessing that the wings are made to order because it took a while for our order to came out, and there was no one else in the place. Overall my impression was that it was an average place that was a bit pricey.

Wing Stop
4200 Chino Hills Pkwy
Chino Hills, CA 91709

I ended up trying it again last night w/ a friend in their Glendora location. We got the 35 wing meal that came with fries, a side of veggie sticks (carrots and celery), and the choice of two sauces (ranch, bleu cheese, and honey mustard), in which we opted for the first two. you can see the sauces hidden on the left side. The meal cost $25.29, and along with two beers (again they had a wide selection of bottled, but only Bud Light and Newcastle on tap @ $3.50 each) the total came out to be $33.88. You get to choose up to three flavors for the 35 combo.


The meal. I wish they had given us more veggies, but it was a fair amount. 4 sticks each of fresh thickly cut carrots and celery. The large fries given were a good amount but weren't as crisp as I'd have liked. At both locations, the fries had this strangely sweet flavor to them. I don't know exactly what it was...


Lemon pepper. These sort of tasted like they had been brushed with the same seasoning as the fries. I don't know why, but I think of crack when I imagine the workers sprinkling this onto the wings.


Cajun, which is just their original hot flavor with some special seasoning, which tasted mostly like oregano. The wings definitely had a nice kick that burnt your lips, but wasn't to the hotness level that you'd be sweating trying to eat these. For those that would like that, go for their "atomic" sauce.


The mild. Not much to really say about this...it is what it is.

The meat was again on the small ratio. The wings weren't drenched in the sauce, but it was still good amount. I wish we asked for the wings to come out in segments or something, so they wouldn't have gotten cold. The 35 wing combo, although it may seem a lot, is just the right amount for two people.

Service at both Wing Stops was friendly. It just takes a while for your food to come out, so be forewarned. Open until midnight.

1365 E Gladstone St
Glendora, CA 91740

Lastly, one of the places on my list to check out was The Donut Man in Glendora, so I was looking forward to a strawberry donut for dessert, even though I was pretty full from our meal.


I was surprised to find out that it is a small little place (and funnily enough, next to a gym. oh those poor souls) that has their goods displayed in the windows, in which you order from the outside. There is no inside seating, so your choices are either eating in the car or sitting on one of the two lone benches in front of the store. If you look on the bottom left corner, you can see their apple donuts (click the pic for zoom). I've also read that they make peach donuts when its in season.


But I was here for their strawberry donut ($2.75). A glazed donut cut in half and filled with so many strawberries that it looked like that one boa who tried to eat an alligator and burst. The syrup/glaze was a little too sweet for my liking, but the strawberries were delicious, and the glazed donut was a nice light compliment. It wasn't soggy either, which was a good sign that the donut hadn't been sitting out for some time. All of this was washed down with some good ol 2% milk ($1.25). I was done after this. By the time I got home, I abandoned any hope of going out for St. Patty's Day to let my stomach have a break...


915 E Route 66
Glendora, CA 91740

24 hours. Cash only, but they got an ATM machine on the side.

Posts always take longer than I think they will. I'm out folks. Gonna sleep like a baby tonight. See yaaa.