I have previously mentioned that we don't usually go out on our monthsaries. I'm documenting here the few times we went out to celebrate.
This was a few months back, about the same time when a new Korean convenience store called Funhan Mart opened a branch less than 2 kilometers away from my office. With the overly sparkling design of the store, it would be difficult not to be curious of what they sell here.
In one of our monthsaries, we decided to grab late Korean dinner in Funhan Mart. Since it was a bit late for dinner, there were only a few people in the store. We roamed around, tried to discover interesting Korean food options that we haven't had before. We grabbed some frozen Mandu (Korean dumplings), spicy ramen, cheese toppoki, and of course it wouldn't be complete without kimchi. My boyfriend felt the need to grab some boiled egg, too.
Aside from convenience, one thing that drew a lot of attention in this store is the experience.
For frozen food items such as Mandu, customer will re-heat it in a microwave and in less than 5 minutes, your food is ready. For the ramen, you'll be cooking it yourself in their EZ Cook Machine or instant ramen cooker. They have store staffs who will assist you along the way. When in comes to their drinks, you can buy their cold drinks straight from their refrigerators but if you want it to be ice-cold, you can buy cups with ice and pour your drink of choice their.
To put it bluntly, it wasn't the healthiest meal I had. I can only imagine the high sodium content present in each of our orders as all of them are processed food. It wouldn't hurt to eat here occassionally tho. The dining experience was superb.
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You both are looking beautiful.. so you have the option to cook your ramen yourself in what is actually a restaurant?
Hi, @josediccus 👋 I wouldn't call it a restaurant. It's like 7 Eleven but products sold are mostly from Korea. Then they have a corner where you may opt to cook the items you bought or ask a staff to assist you in case it's your first time in their store.
For more affordable Korean foods, maganda cguro jan hehe .
Affordable pag may kahati ka, Jane. Medj pricey if solo lang tbh. Haven't come back here kahit malapit sa office.
Eyyyy, you lived a korean life there for a minutes. Must be so fun 🤩🤩. We don't have this kind of shop here in our place, I wish we have. I'll try it too, just for the experienve lang sana. Hehe. Those are yummy looking korean foods.
San ka nga sa Pinas @ruffatotmeee? Soon meron n din ganito sa inyo. Andami kasing Korean sa Cebu, mas Marami before pandemic actually. Meron parin now but iilan na lang. Bet din nung mga on the go lang, reheat and eat lang Yung food mostly Dito.
Sa Mindoro, our town is really small so that's impossible pa for now. It's cool. Some people prefer that reheat and eat food, especially those wala nang time talaga to do a long process of cooking no. Very convenient din talaga yan sya. Although not so healthy, sige pa rin yong iba ay. Lol. Pero if minsanan lang, no problem naman kapag ganon.
Omggg @ruffatotmeee san banda sa Mindoro? I haven't been there but I plan on going. My dream is to travel all provinces of the Philippines hehe
Asa ang Oppa? 😂
Ni comment na ang Oppa! 😂