no.120 130828 Thank you for the late night snack

My late night snack! Boong-uh-bbang and grape bubble tea

There is a new bubble tea joint in my neighbourhood that recently opened. Every time I pass by it, there is a huge lineup and I didn't want to wait so I would just go somewhere else. My sister and I attempted to try it tonight, but I could already see a long lineup from afar. I was contemplating whether we should just go back home or not, but since we were already there, we decided to look at the menu at least.

There is only one flavour I get whenever I go for a bubble tea - grape. It can be green tea, black tea, oolong tea or with milk, but it just gotta be grape. People who go for a bubble tea with me for the first time have told me  that they've never seen anyone get grape flavour. I suggest you to try it next time you go to a bubble tea shop. After quickly browsing the menu, I found out that they do have my flavour! I wasn't gonna bother waiting in the line if they didn't have grape. My sister didn't mind waiting either, so we stood in the line for about 10 minutes? Which wasn't so bad I guess.

The bubble was just okay. I've had better ones before. I don't think it's worth the wait for sure. But anyways, Sunny (my sister) wanted to check out the Korean food cart on the way home. Although I've passed by it numerous times, I never really paid attention. Plus, I don't normally eat truck foods unless I'm in Korea. The food card had one of our favourite snacks from Korea - boong-uh-bbang (fish shaped cake filled with sweet red bean paste), and they were selling it for a pretty good deal. According to my sister, the boonguhbbangs we got tonight are the best ones in Canada! I do agree with her. We munched our late night snack on the way home, reminiscing our last visit to Korea. Ever since we moved to Canada, we were only able to visit Korea in the summer. We often went out late at night to get some snack, usually something cold like ice cream. Although I have no memories of getting boonguhbbang in summer (because it's more of a winter snack since it's hot), today definitely reminded me of Korea. Oh, how I miss my motherland.