Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Photo essay- the history of Ramen.




                                                   



   


   When I first heard about choosing a topic for photo essay,I started to think,"What is the thing that I want the most in GLPS?" The answer came to me instantly. Ramen!! If I wasn't here I would be feasting myself with it right now!But since I'm rotting myself in GLPS, I couldn't even smell ramen for three weeks.Then I started to think, how was ramen made? It is the most popular instant food in Korea but a,most none of us know the history of it! So, today I will write about the history of instant Ramen and what kind of ramen there is.
                                          A fish getting fried in oil  
     Look at the boiling oil. The fish is going into the boiling oil. When it comes out , The flour will be dehydrated and it will have many wholes inside it. After seeing this scene, A man called Ando Aomohaka got the idea of instant ramen. He also found out that the cardboard hard dehydrated  noodle would be chewy after staying in the steaming hot water.Then at 1958 instant ramen was invented.

                                                                                                                                                               
                                           A picture of cup ramen that is being cooked
   It wouldn't be fare to say " I know the history of instant ramen " without knowing the history of cup ramen. A  man named Ando got the idea of cup ramen from this scene.-Foreigners are getting introduced about Ramen. They want to taste it but its out side so they don't have any tools. They decide to eat it by dumping noodle in a paper cup with hot water. A moment later a potable mini ramen is cooked!- After ando's hard work, cup ramen was invented in 1971.
                                         A traditional Korean Ramen
   When Ramen was introduced to Korea in 1963, people would refuse to eat it. It was to slippery and it did not fit to Korean culture.But because of the government's hard work with advertising, Now Koreans eat  average 84 ramens  a year. I never thought we ate it that much!




 
                                 A classical red ramen , the most popular one.
      Ramen is ready. its bubbling and steaming. You can smell the spicyness in the air and your mouth is watering. Finally you set the table and start to eat it with kimchi. That is the thing that is going to happen in a few moments if I was in the picture.Oh, you'll never be able to guess what I would give right now for steaming red ramen right now!
 




Red ramens are popular, but it started to lose some of its popularity as time went by.So, the companies made extra spicy white ramen to make some new sensational ramen. But, since white ramens don't get along with rice, it soon lost it's popularity. Nowadays, it's your lucky day if you find white ramen in the store.



A white ramen that was made to gain new interest of the buyers



   The last kind of ramen are the ones that you see in the picture. Find any difference? There are no soup! Usually those ramens are made by fallowing these steps.
 First you  cook the ramen's noodle in hot water.
 Then you throw out almost all of the waters.
 Finally you cook the noodle in the pan with the sauce that you have.
 After a minute later you will have a nice jajangmeon or spaghetti with ramen noodle.some people hate these kind of ramens for some kind of reason that nobody knows. But real ramen lovers have a lot of exciting experiments with it!







As odd as it sounds, Korea's number one instant food that is loved from babies to old folks is as unhealthy as possible






















Friday, January 17, 2014

"The Princess Bride" -An Ancient Movie With An Ancient Topic

For today I would like to write a movie report. I watched the movie princess bride . Which is a movie that Miss Angela picked for us to watch.It was filmed in 1987.Over all I would say this is the movie that you should not expect much from.On the other hand its a nice movie to watch if you just want to pass some time.The movie is about the love between a farm boy and the princess.And the adventures they have to live a happy long life together.
  The Genres of this movie are adventure, comedy, and fantasy.The main character were Westley, Princess buttercup. for the opposing ones, it had the prince Humperdinc, 6 fingered man, and the smart man.Then there were thease minor helping ones- Inigo, and frezzic.
 The movie took place in some kind of a medieval fantasy land.The story begins with two young peoples falling in love. then the boy gets killed from the pirates and the girl gets engaged with the prince.The rest of the story is about the boy coming back to life and saving the girl from unwanted wedding with the prince.Then the movie ends with several happy kisses.
The princess bride is a pretty good Family movie.But its a bit boring due to it's PG rating. Which means there will be no killing or anything ore than a kiss.The guys who were sitting next to me kept complained about the lack of serious body contact between the princess and Westley.
 I learned here that PG rated  movies and fairy tales had limits. I could learn much from the movie except that " love have no barriers. There was this character 'Westley' that really had some leadership qualities. He had trusty friends to follow him. I learned that to be a great leader, you need trust people behind your back. Over all I would say this movie rating is 6.9 out of ten.
I would not recommend it to you since the movie has not particularly exciting points. The movie is funny but there are no points when its totally hilarious. Also it looks although the plot has been written without care .Maybe its the special features of the 80's but tome, it looked like a total nonsense. The character(Westley dies twice in the movie and comes back to life!? If I was the director of this movie I would have picked someone more beautiful to be princess Buttercup. Also, I would add some more action scenes to make it interesting. Finally I would make few of the scene really funny so it would be impossible not to double over.The movie is not like "Oh I'm so bored I can't watch it anymore" type. It is just that its not the movie that I'll recommend. But who knows? You might find "The Princess Bride" fascinating.

Friday, January 10, 2014

Self- Introductions

  Today I'm going to introduce myself. But it wouldn't be fun to do it in a normal way! so I'll introduce myself by telling you three things that I know to be true about me.
  Those three informations are 98, Diabolo, and ice cream.Guess What they are!

For answers click here -98

For answers click here -Diabolo

For answers click here- ice cream

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

welcome to my blog

This is the the first blog I ever had and its because of homeworks!