Posts Tagged ‘photographs’

Lotte Harvest Crackers (black sesame)

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Actually the English label on a sticker on the back of the box says Black Sesami (misspelling). No matter. I enjoyed eating these crackers a lot.

Lotte Harvest Snacks
Jean-François Millet (밀레) is given credit for the painting — The Angelus (만종), 1857–59, currently in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. I guess the art is in the public domain? Anyway, the packaging design is very good.

Lotte Harvest Crackers - Individual Wrapper There are two individual packs / servings in a box. The crackers are sweet and crisp, and dotted with a few black sesame seeds.

Serving Size: 18 crackers (46 grams). Honestly, I didn’t count but they didn’t seem to be that many.

Nutrition Facts: Per Serving: 225 calories, 112 from fat. Total Fat 10 grams — saturated fat 5g, no trans fat. No cholesterol. Sodium 168 milligrams. Total Carbohydrates 30 grams — dietary fiber 1 gram, sugars 10 g. Protein 4 g. No Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium or iron.

Ingredients: Whear [sic] flour, sugar, vegetable oil, HYDROGENATED vegetable oil (soy), coconut flour, sweetened condensed milk, roatsed [sic] black sesami [sic], ammonium bicarbonate, condensed milk cream, pregelatined cereal powder, roasted sesami [sic], salt, butter, egg whole, roasted black soybean powder, sodium bicarbonate, almond powder, black sesami [sic] paste, soy lecithin, milk flavor, enzyme, cinnamon powder, coconut flavor, sodium bisulfite.

That has to be the most poorly written English label I’ve seen on a South Korean product. But that’s not as important as taste, and these crackers tasted good.

Allergy Information: contains wheat, milk, egg, soybean, almond, coconut.

Manufactured by LOTTE Confectionery Co., Ltd. Seoul, Korea. UPC Bar Code 8 801062 248230.

The hangul says that the box is recyclable paper and that the retail price is 1,000 Korean won. I think I was able to get this on sale for just 99 cents at Gaju Market.

2009 Korean Festival Parade in Koreatown

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Korean Parade Sign in Koreatown
Just came back from watching the 2009 Korean Festival Parade on Olympic Boulevard. The entourage originated from Catalina Avenue near Vermont but I was stationed nearer to Western Avenue.

Took so many pictures and so much video. It’ll take me forever to process them. Here’s a few…


Girl in Stroller with Two Flags at Parade

Her Mommy is the one in the background trying to get a picture of her son in the parade. (He looked so embarrassed.) The child in the stroller is carrying two national flags! There were also a lot of Mexican flags and floats participating so that was really cool. And the people lining the street were something like 60% Latino (Salvadoran…) and 35% Korean. The announcements were mostly in Korean — it is the Korean Festival in a place called Koreatown, after all. The parade’s progress was slow but there were enough highlights that I didn’t find it a waste to go.



Korean Girls at Koreatown arade
These young girls worked their tiny behinds off. They were the most indefatigable group in the parade!

Will post the rest of the photos and video clips soon!