It’s hard to believe I have been in South Korea for nearly two weeks already. Time has really flown by very quickly and yet it feels like I have done so much. This can probably be attributed to the day to day challenges I face because of the language barrier and difference in lifestyle.

Rice
Rice is an essential part of the diet here and Mrs. Lee was kind enough to give me a rice cooker. It looked really easy when she showed me and I thought I had committed all of the steps to memory. Unfortunately all of the “buttons” were in Korean so that was an obstacle by itself. I thought I remembered which button meant “cooking” and “warming” so I was confused when I plugged it in because the wrong light lit up. There was a lever in front that you had to push down to get the light to go from warming to cooking. I worked this out pretty quickly though.

I remembered to rinse the rice and I measured two cups of rice and filled the water up to the line that said two. Pretty easy right? I thought so until I went on the internet and started reading about the “two to one” ratio and second guessed myself, (and added more water). Needless to say google was not my friend in this case, the rice cooker was already calibrated. I should have trusted my memory. So I had a little bit of overflow – live and learn. It worked perfectly the second time. more…