Drama - K, T and C (JUL-OCT)

 Recently finished an amazing drama series. 

1. Till End of the Moon - 48 episodes , C-Drama. Pretty good story, pretty solid story and pretty cast.

2. When a snail falls in love (Thai) , T-Drama. Not bad pretty entertaining, set in police station environment. Supposedly derived from a comic and chinese version.

3.  Our blooming youth -  12ep K-Drama. Set in ancient korean palace. Pretty solid story, good development and entertaining side cast.

4. Zombie Detective - 12ep Kdrama. Detective theme plus zombie. Entertaining so far, story was kept light and interesting till the end. 

5. One piece 2023 - 8 ep .  adaptation of comic , this is part one. interesting not weird somehow. Would be interesting to see s2 where all the weirdos characters like Frankie, Chopper , Brooks come in.

6. Love you forever ?

7. Forbidden Marriage  2022- 12ep K-Drama. Ancient Korean palace setting, pretty solid story ,entertaining and good cast as well. .

8. three kingdom RPG-  2012  25ep .HK drama . protagonist got sent back to 3 kingdom era, and particiapte in some main events. fans of 3 kingdom may appreciate this series more (*or not maybe). ending was surprisingly...   - wont make it a spoiler here.

9.  Chinese Odyssey part 3 - is a movie sequel of Stephen chow's legendary movies. This one however falls below par of its predecessor although there are some light moments thats pretty comedic, and not sure if its all in Mandarin which again makes this much less enjoyable and relatable to its prequels. Other than that the storyline is pretty much not so bad. 

10.  Wrong carriage, right bride  - 24 ep . C-drama.  Standard idol and new chinese drama in ancient setup , with pretty/cute actress and handsome actors. Stories of 2 female leads being swapped on Ep1 , funny sometimes and slow to build up on first 2-3 ep. Was stuck here and jumping to others more interesting ones, but the story line is pretty good and not boring at least, jumping on 2 scenes of each female lead and their struggles with physical / mental perils respectively. Not too bad, but might not  be to some other's that dislike idol type drama.

Surivor note: DIY Quick Kimchi - derivation from kimchi pack base

So to be lazy and not cook that much that often i found the Chinese Market selling kimchi in little packs. Psst, this probably finish in 1-2 serving. Then i got an idea, why not use this as base and make my homemade kimchi batch. 

 Recipe: 

 Zuchini/Krastavac 1pc 

Cabbage (no napa cabbage here) less than half of small ones. 

Paprika/green chilli  - half pc

Yellow/Holland Onion/Luk Crni 1pc 

Garlic/Luk beli 7-9 cloves 

 Red apple/Jabuka - half sliced and diced. 

Carrot 1pc small sized 

Salt 2 tablspoon 

Sugar 3-4 spoon or to taste 

Vinegar/used old vinegar 1 spoon 

Red chilli powder since no gochugaru - 3-4 spoon to taste 

Lemon 1/4 or 1/3 , use your feeling. 

White sesame 

A drizzle of honey - optional 

1. Zuchini, slice into small bitesize piece, sprinkle salt. Set aside for water to discard. 

2. Cabbage, chopped into size u like, i like smaller fine slice. 

3. Boil water with salt. This is brine - once boiled let it rest 5 min. Dump cabbage in for 10 min. 

4. Add water to the pot, soak for 5 min . Drain and sprinkle salt over cabbage, let rest 15-30 min for salt to soak in. 

5. Rinse cabbage, drain, let it dry. 

6. Chop up the rest of veggies into smalle pieces. 

7. Mix salt sugar vinegar chilli powder to cabbage, add in the little kimchi packet for the base. 

8. Mix all together, test and add what is lacking to taste. 

9. Let it rest in room temp for one night. (up to here, will check back if this round 2 ferments great) 

10. keep in fridge for up to 2-3 weeks.