

These are a few of my favorite things*
*I just had to borrow the above phrase from ‘The Sound of Music’. Bathroom Mirror. Why didn’t we think of this? You take a shower, the...
Pat P
Apr 14, 20241 min read


We Could Learn a lot from Korea
Here are two things we could use in our restaurants…or maybe even at home! In the longer video the apparatus is boiling noodles and...
Pat P
Apr 13, 20241 min read


I Drank the Kool-aid*
*This is expression stems from a catastrophic situation that happened in 1978. I use it here to humorously explain the following. See...
Pat P
Apr 12, 20241 min read


Hey, Look What I Made!
Yep, I made this. It bibimbap, and I took a cooking class with the rest of my tour group to learn how to do it at The Food and Culture...
Pat P
Apr 11, 20241 min read


Meeting Song*
When Judy and I talked about going to Korea many, many months ago, it became clear we wanted different experiences. Our original plan to...
Pat P
Apr 9, 20242 min read


NOONA’S NOONCHI*
*or, as close as I am going to get to a celebrity here Being a Kdrama fanatic, I follow noonasnoonchi. This Instagram notable is Jeanie...
Pat P
Apr 8, 20242 min read


The Cherry On Top!
Pat: I am so fortunate my trip to Korea coincided with cherry blossom season. How many dramas have I watched that show the romance of...
Pat P
Apr 6, 20241 min read


So…Where Are The KDrama Stars?
Day two in Korea found me looking high and low for some of my favorite actors. Shocking, but they were nowhere to be seen. As you can...
Pat P
Apr 3, 20241 min read


First day: random thoughts
It's Pat! Yesterday we flew from Taipei to Seoul via Korean Air. It was an uneventful and unimpressive trip. The flight attendants...
Pat P
Apr 3, 20241 min read


SUNDAE, no, not that kind of sundae.
When I’m watching a Kdrama, and someone is salivating over having ‘sundae,' my mouth starts to water in anticipation of the ice cream,...
Pat P
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Korea or Disneyland?
You know how the saying goes: you get a windfall of kudos, recognition, notoriety, yadda yadda yadda, and you tell everyone you’re going...
Pat P
Apr 1, 20241 min read


Nothing has changed!
I felt like I needed to remind everyone that nothing has changed for me. I'm in the middle of a 16-episode, Joseon period, Kdrama called...

Judy T
Apr 1, 20241 min read


WHAT CAME FIRST: PEPERO OR POCKY?
Any Korean worth her kimchi knows that Pepero is a snack that can’t be beat. Coincidentally, Japanese feel exactly the same about Pocky....
Pat P
Mar 30, 20242 min read


Closed Captions/Subtitles
Face, it, we Gmamas are getting older, and not all of our parts work that well. (Don’t worry, I not going to tell you the TMI ones.) ...
Pat P
Mar 27, 20241 min read


The Mother of us All
Okay, I had to do a deep dive into the world of Seo Jeon-yeon for this post. This gorgeous middle age woman keeps popping up in my...
Pat P
Mar 18, 20242 min read


I almost slipped!
Oh dear, at yoga this morning -while we were in deep relaxation mode- the instructor said 'what's the one thing you would like in your...

Judy T
Mar 15, 20241 min read


YAWN…AND FAST FORWARD
Pat: Here’s my dirty little secret: if I’m bored with an endless crying jag or a scene where a parent is slapping a child around...
Pat P
Mar 13, 20241 min read


Will it ever end?
At this point you're probably wondering how on earth we can continue to write about this stuff. We sometimes wonder that too. Is our...

Judy T
Mar 8, 20241 min read



