~ To Meal Plan Or Not To Meal Plan, That Is The Question ~
Sorry I was gone for so long, I’ve been filming and editing a lot and just changing my lifestyle.
I go to the gym every day for an hour and a half now and I’m starting to eat better, having more veg and fruit and I’ve cut out all sugar and fat things in my life, and during the first four days I lost 4kg so I’m kinda proud of myself lol.
Anyways, I’m not sure if this will be a two part series but for now I’m just gonna type away and inform all you guys about the cafeteria’s in EWHA.
So, ewha has many cafeteria’s and places to eat. Now restaurants are another story so we’ll save them for later, but at ewha, I have eaten at six of the eight cafeteria’s on campus. It’s like a fucking mission of mine. There is the ECC Cafeteria, The Human Ecology Cafeteria ( that’s where most exchange students go), The Posco Building Cafeteria, The Nursing Building Cafeteria, The University- Industry Cooperation Building Cafeteria ( fuck me that’s a mouth full), Hanwoori Cafeteria and E-House 201 & 301 Cafeteria.
I have been to all but the University Industry cafeteria and Hanwoori Cafeteria ( which will change as I am in Hanwoori next semester).
So I would love to talk ALL about the multiple cafeteria’s around EWHA, but I’ll keep it short and sweet. ECC is the priciest, Human Ecology is cheap but only serves two options or less a day, The nursing building is fine but can be disgusting, Posco is always crowded and noisy but serves ok food. So I’m going to tell you about my favourite; E-House Cafeteria 201.
I currently live in E-House 202 and I lived in 204 during the fall semester, so I ate ( and still do eat) at the E-House 201 Cafeteria.
My Cafeteria serves four options everyday breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have Korean style meals, Western Style Meals, Asian Style Meals, and Snacks.
I personally like the Korean and Western Options. Actually, as I’m writing this, I just ate the Korean style lunch which was so good and healthy.
The meal options change every mealtime and they have different ones everyday, so there’s always loads of choice. The meals estimate between 3,000-4,000 WON per meal, so that’s around $2-$3 or £1.50-£2.50 so it’s insanely cheap for what you get.
When you get a meal, you are given the main dish, side dishes, soup, salad and a drink ( which may be drinkable yogurt like I had today, or apple juice, orange juice, etc).
The meals are usually very hearty, with the Korean and Asian options being extremely healthy. You pay such little for fresh and delicious meals. Now just note that the cute Ahjumma’s that cook here don’t speak English so they’ll just point or plainly speak fast Korean to you whether you speak Korean or not so prepare for that. I’ve haven’t eaten there for so long due to school and friends and now filming that one of the Ahjumma’s saw me yesterday for the first time in weeks and she held my hand between her hands and said I lost weight which made me happy. Today, more of the Ahjumma’s recognised me and told me to smile ( I had just finished working out and I was exhausted) and when I smiled she said I was pretty and I literally love those sweet Ahjumma’s.
Anyways, there’s this thing at E-House that is offered to all students. It’s called the Meal Plan. Now, here’s why I think you SHOULDNT go with the meal plan at E-House or Hanwoori. The meals cost around 3,000-4,000 WON per meal. The meal plan tells you a semsterly price to pay. After calculating the average price of each meal and split it per day and how many meals were offered per day, I found that they add a 0.50 cent/ pence or $1/£1 more on to each meal, so at the end of the day, it’s a waste or money.
Also, due to class schedules, you won’t always be at the cafeteria during the time for each meal. You will more than likely miss breakfast and lunch and dinner depends on when you finish classes, so it’s a waste to pay for meals you might not even be able to eat due to your major’s schedule.
What I love about this cafeteria is how modern and light it is. Never too warm or too cold, with an easy paying system. You can pay by going to a machine, seeing the meals that are offered and paying by cash or card for whichever one you want. You then proceed to take your ticket to the area marked as Asian, Korean, Western or Snack for whatever it is you ordered.
They also don’t just serve warm meals, they also offer pre-packaged salads, Ramen ( with cheese or an egg) you cook yourself in the cafeteria, sandwiches, cakes and fruit. It’s great for when you are hungry but you’re on the move to class or a club or you just don’t feel like eating something really heavy during that time of the day.
Also note that SNACKS and WESTERN can be kinda different from what you are used to.
I’ve seen things from toast to omurice ( which is Japanese), to a jar of Jam ( literally just a jar or jam), to fried spam to just hotdogs, spaghetti or burgers. So it can be very wild sometimes.
And snacks are not really snacks all the time. Sometimes they offer cake or fruit but then other times snacks are huge meals of chicken and fries or kimchi fried rice or even types of jjigae.
So snacks can really fill you up. (the bigger snacks are usually called limited menu for some reason, I don’t know why, they aren’t limited by time or anything like that but anyways, KONGLISH I guess).
Also the Ahjumma’s do a mean Tteokbokki, Soondae and Kimchi Fried Rice~ it tastes just like eating it at a vendor outside of campus! Also, you can bring friends who don’t live or attend ewha to the cafeteria, or family members, and eat together there as you don’t need an ID to enter or purchase food there, so it’s great, and there’s plenty of space.
The meals are tasty, huge, cheap and I love them. (And depending on what the food is like at Hanwoori, I may just go to E-House Cafeteria next semester as well lol).
I hope you enjoy this little post of E-House and Ewha Cafeteria’s and I will see you guys soon when I post another post… yeah, that was weird, anyways..
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