Category: US

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

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Nice book on food, Chinese restaurants in US, immigration histories.

I have always thought Fortune Cookie is very similar to Japanese Senbei..ย  and this book nailed it off. And, also, I have to admit I was a fan of “Manhattan style Chinese Foods” -as it is marketed in Seoul- as the writer calls out as one interesting thing happening in the world..

(Well I don’t have the fantasy of “Manhattan” but these US Chinese food brings me the memories of cold & hungry times at Ames, Iowa…)

๊ฒฝํ™˜์ดํ˜• ์ถ”์ฒœ์œผ๋กœ ๋๋‚ธ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ์ฒซ๋…์„œ..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์—ˆ๋‹ค.. ํ•œ๊ตญ Ho Lee Chow์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ .. ํ™์ฝฉ์—์„œ ๋จน์€ ์ฒซ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋จน์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฉ”๋‰ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋‹ฌ๋ž๋˜๊ฒŒ ์™œ์ผ๊นŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ…ย  (์•„์ง ๋Œ€๋ฅ™์€ ๊ฐ€๋ณธ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค๋Šฅ… ) ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ–ˆ๋˜ ํฌ์ธˆ์ฟ ํ‚ค๊ฐ€ ์„ผ๋ฒ ๋ž‘ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ๊ฐ€์„ค, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์•„์‹œ์•ˆ ์ด๋ฏผ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ทผ๋Œ€์‚ฌ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•ด์‹  ์ฑ… ๋˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค..

2019.2

Buying a new Snow Shovel after the Snow Storm is Gone is…

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same as Barn Mending After Horse Is Stolen.. or fixing the barn after losing the cow in Korean..ย  well at least, at last night, I cleaned up the snow on my deck with this new one..

์†Œ์žƒ๊ณ  ์™ธ์–‘๊ฐ„ ๊ณ ์ณค๋‹ค… ์™ธ์–‘๊ฐ„ ๊ณ ์นœ๊ฒŒ ์–ต์šธํ•ด์„œ ์•ผ๋ฐค์— ์‚ฝ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋’ท๋งˆ๋‹น ๋ฐํฌ์— ์Œ“์—ฌ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ์น˜์šฐ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ.. ํ•œํŽธ ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํƒˆ์ถœ ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„ ๋“œ๋„ค..? ๐Ÿ™‚

2019.2

 

2019 Seattle Snowpocalypse 3.0 or Season 3

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After finishing shoveling with not-snow-shovel for 2 hours to pave the way for the car to get out of garage, the new layer of White Shxt is coming down fiercely, and my cell phone ringed from Bellevue School District that school is cancelled tomorrow ๐Ÿ™‚

์ ์‹ฌ๋•Œ ํ”ผ์ž ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์˜ค๋”ฉ์ด์— ์–‘๋ง ์”Œ์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ฐ”๋‹ค ์˜ค๊ณ … ํ”ผ์ž ๋จน์€ ํž˜ 2์‹œ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ์ง‘์•ž๊ธธ ์‚ฝ์งˆ๋กœ ์น˜์› ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋˜ ๋Œ€๋ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค.. Season 3 ๊ฐœ๋ด‰๋ฐ•๋‘…

2019.2

 

 

2019 Seattle Snowpocalypse 2.0

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Big lesson learned after 2nd winter snow storm in one week: Never say “This winter has been warm with less rains and no snow” ๐Ÿ™‚ Usual 15-20 min drive back to home became 4 hour scramble with ad-hoc detouring, endless wait, and 1st gear uphill driving..

์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๊นœ์ง ๋ˆˆํญํƒ„์œผ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฃผ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰๋„ ๋ˆˆํญํƒ„์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋‚˜.. ๋‹ค์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด ๋น„๋„ ๋œ์˜ค๊ณ  ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹๋„ค ๋จธ์‹œ๋„ค ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง์•„์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ‰์†Œ์— 15-20๋ถ„ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ‡ด๊ทผ๊ธธ… ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ์ผ๋Œ€๋Š” ์–ธ๋•๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ๊ธธ์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณณ์ด๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, 1๋…„์— ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ •๋„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™๋„ค๋ผ (์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒจ์šธ์€ ์•„์˜ˆ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„..) ์‹œ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์ฃผ์š”๊ฐ„์„  ๋„๋กœ๋งŒ ์ œ์„คํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ…ย  ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธธ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋น™๊ธ€๋น™๊ธ€ ๋Œ์•„ ๊ฐ€๊ณ , ์˜จ๋™๋„ค ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ๋‹ค ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ๋ ค๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š๋ผ ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์–ธ๋•๊ธธ์— ๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ์ •์œผ๋กœ 1๋‹จ๊ธฐ์–ด์— ํ•ธ๋“ค ๊ฝ‰์ฅ๊ณ  ์˜ฌ๋ผ์™”๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋“ค ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๋• ๋ฐ‘์— ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋“ค ๊ฑธ์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์™€์ค‘์— 4์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‚ฌํˆฌ๋์— ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ์ง‘.. (๊ณ ๋ง™๋‹ค ๋‚ด ์†Œ๋‘ฅ์ด… ์ •๋ง ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์ƒ์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค…ํ‘) ์‚ฌํˆฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋‚ด๊ณ  ์•ˆ๋„+ํ™€๊ฐ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ์ฐ์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๋‹ค ์ƒ๋žตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ˆˆ๊ฝƒ๋งˆ์„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝ์น˜๋งŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

2019.2

 

Polar Vortex

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Image credit to Washington post https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/29/polar-vortex-descends-midwest-with-life-threatening-wind-chills/?utm_term=.8c6b146b2b3f

์„ธ์ƒ์—๋‚˜… ๋ถ๋ฏธ ์ค‘๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ์ถ”์šด๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๊ทน….ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž .. ์•Œ๋ผ์Šค์นด, ๋‚จ๊ทน, ์—๋ฒ„๋ ˆ์ŠคํŠธ ๋‹ค ์šธ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ฃผ์‹ฌ..

2019.1

Mercurys Coffee Co. Bellevue

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This must be Mercurys’ version of “Reserve” shop in Bellevue..

์•„๋ผ๋Š” ๋™๋„ค Coffee ๋ถ€๋ ๋„์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ Mercurys Coffee Co๊ฐ€ ๋ฒจ๋ทฐ 520 ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์˜ˆ ์ž‘๋‹น์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  flagship store๊ฐ™์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋†จ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ธฐ์—” ์ปคํ”ผ ๋งค์žฅ์น˜๊ณค ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํฌ๋‹ค๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์•ˆ์— ์™€๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์•„์˜ˆ ๊ณต์žฅ์„ ์ฐจ๋ ค๋†“์œผ์…จ๊ตฌ๋žด….

2019.1

 

Seattle Mariners Blow Out Sale

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๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค ํŒ”์•„๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋ผ์šฐ…

Maybe Seattle Mariners is becoming more like a Padres/Marlins or path to a tanking season….

  • #1 Pitcher: Paxton to Yankees
  • Starting catcher and former first round #3 pick: Zunino to Rays
  • Second baseman: Cano to Mets
  • Allstar game MVP Shortstop: Segura to Phillies
  • #1 Closer in the league: to Diaz Mets
  • Old & New 8th Inning Setup : Nicasio /Colome to Phillies/White Sox
  • Only reliable Lefty Bullpen: Pazos to Phillies
  • Utility outfielder: Heredia to Rays
  • LF outfielder: Span to Free Agent
  • DH Cruz will likely retire or at least not coming back to Seattle

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One thing sure is Mariners shop will have a blow out jersey sales – I am pretty sure ~80% of their jersey inventories needs a fire sales…

2018.12

 

 

Fall in Silicon Forest

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View of US-26 from hotel at Silicon Forest / Hillsboro, OR ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋Œ€์ถฉ ํ•œ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์น˜์ž๋ฉด ๊ธฐํฅ์ด๋‚˜ ํ‰ํƒ์ธ๊ฐ€? ๐Ÿ™‚

๋‚จ์ชฝ์ด๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ง๋„ ๋‹จํ’์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์žˆ๋Š”๋“ฏ..ใ…Ž

2018.11

Ralph Breaks the Internet

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Ralph Breaks the Internet totally broke my expectation – The creativity on this movie rocks!

Thanksgiving๋งž์ด ์˜ค๋ ˆ๊ณค์— ๊ฐ€์„œ tax์•ˆ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ณธ ์˜ํ™”..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์ด ์˜ํ™”๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ “์ด ์˜ํ™”๋งŒ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์ฒœ์žฌ์•ผ ์ฒœ์žฌ.. “๋ฅผ ๋ช‡๋ฒˆ ์™ธ์ณค๋Š”์ง€..ใ…Žใ…Ž

2018.11

New Kids On The Block

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Wow – I happened to click this site, and thought this was a museum site ๐Ÿ™‚ and also I cannot tell who is whom by pic…

“Let me say it’s alright, ah~~~~~~~~”

ํ—.. ์ด๊ฒŒ ์–ธ์ œ์ฉ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด์‹ ๊ฐ€? ์ง„์งœ ์ŒํŒ”๋…„๋„๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์…จ๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋‚ด๋…„ 6์›”1์ผ ํƒ€์ฝ”๋งˆ๋” ๊ณต์—ฐ ์˜ˆ์ •..ํ—‰..๊ฐ€๋” mp3 ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ๋žœ๋คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์•„์ง๋„ ์‹ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ถ€๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋Šฅ..-.-; ๋‚˜๋‚˜ ์ด๋ถ„๋“ค์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค ์• ๋“ค์ด์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋งŒ..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

2018.11