Dinner Date!
Before I settle down into seriously looking at the itinerary for Taiwan next week, thought I'd blog a little about last night's dinner date with D.r. C.h.o.o.!
For those who don't know, she's my Honours Thesis supervisor! I tell you, this wonderful lady hailing from the beautiful land of Korea was simply the best supervisor around! Super helpful, always encouraging, and of course, zai in her own ways too!
And of course, over dinner, we HAD to ask her the mandatory question every prof gets when they go out for dinner with their students! We simply MUST hear their love stories! heee!
Pictures!
My wonderful prof!
For those who don't know, she's my Honours Thesis supervisor! I tell you, this wonderful lady hailing from the beautiful land of Korea was simply the best supervisor around! Super helpful, always encouraging, and of course, zai in her own ways too!
And of course, over dinner, we HAD to ask her the mandatory question every prof gets when they go out for dinner with their students! We simply MUST hear their love stories! heee!
Pictures!
My wonderful prof!I tell you! What better food to eat with a Korean professor than authentic Korean food! :) We went to Crystal Jade Korean Restaurant at Taka. And my, I must say the food was GREEAAT!
Seafood Pancake appetiser
Bbq beef and the rest of the traditional Korean side-dishes.
Classic! Korean ginseng chicken soup! Yummy!
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Seafood Pancake appetiser
Bbq beef and the rest of the traditional Korean side-dishes.
Classic! Korean ginseng chicken soup! Yummy!
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Korean rice-cake soup! Man! I really loved this. It had beef, egg, and of course delicious chewy Korean rice cakes in there. It's like our Chinese nian2 gao1.. Korean tradition has it that every new year if you eat one bowl, it symbolises that you have grown a year older. :) Apparently, the prof says that kids try to eat as many bowls as they can during the new year. I would think the middle-aged would be less inclined to do so! :p
Well, the Korean restaurant was kind of noisy, and so to have a better chat, we decided to proceed for dessert. The prof insisted on treating us to dinner, so we kinda decided that we would treat her to dessert in return! She was real pleased, declaring herself to be a dessertarian! (cool term eh? vegetarians eat veges, dessertarians eat desserts! humanitarians, anyone?)
We proceeded to ProjectShopBloodBros Cafe at Paragon, and I must say these were some pretty expensive desserts! First time I ever tried Key Lime Pie! I really loved it!
Well, apparently Key Lime Pie is a pie with the greenish filling made of lime! Yum.. seems like it goes nicely after you've had fish or seafood and ur mouth stinks. heh.
This is some orange and chocolate cake, curiously named Jaffa Cake or something. Reminds me of cheap orange juice you get at NTUC.
And of course, a group picture to round it off.
Well, the Korean restaurant was kind of noisy, and so to have a better chat, we decided to proceed for dessert. The prof insisted on treating us to dinner, so we kinda decided that we would treat her to dessert in return! She was real pleased, declaring herself to be a dessertarian! (cool term eh? vegetarians eat veges, dessertarians eat desserts! humanitarians, anyone?)
We proceeded to ProjectShopBloodBros Cafe at Paragon, and I must say these were some pretty expensive desserts! First time I ever tried Key Lime Pie! I really loved it!
Well, apparently Key Lime Pie is a pie with the greenish filling made of lime! Yum.. seems like it goes nicely after you've had fish or seafood and ur mouth stinks. heh.
This is some orange and chocolate cake, curiously named Jaffa Cake or something. Reminds me of cheap orange juice you get at NTUC.
And of course, a group picture to round it off.I must say, it's really been a pleasure working with my prof for my thesis. Little did I know that my PDMM subject was something close to her heart as well. After hearing her in tutorials and lectures for the past 2 years, it was refreshing to hear a little more of her personal stories, and to see the human side of her, living a kind of accidental life that most of us stumble into. Not withholding much information, but sharing freely too. Profs are human too, very much so. With their own struggles, their own hurts, their own stresses. Too often we don't see that, but only see that little bit of glamour they exhibit sharing their knowledge and research. I guess those things come with sacrifice too.
Thanks, D.r. C.h.o.o, for making honours year a little more heartwarming than it already was. :)
Thanks, D.r. C.h.o.o, for making honours year a little more heartwarming than it already was. :)
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