Convenience store in Korea - What cup noodles do you want?

People in Korea eat a lot of cup noodles. Accordingly, there are many kinds of delicious cup noodles in Korea. The advantage of cup noodles is that the recipe is easy and you can satisfy your hunger quickly. You can buy cup noodles in CVS when you feel hungry at night. I will introduce cup noodles at the CVS. These cup noodles are usually bought and eaten by Koreans.

Fig 1. Cup noodles in CVS.

Fig 2. The steady seller of cup noodles in Korea.



 There are 6 cup noodles that is popular in Korea. 1-3 are noodle with soup and 4-6 are noodle with sauce. 1, 2, and 4 are not spicy. 6 is the most spicy cup noodle in Korea. If you like spicy food, I recommand this one. When this cup noodle is launched to the market, people who enjoy spicy food give thumbs up. 5 is less spicy than 6. 3 is spicy and the most selling cup noodle in Korea. 1 is noodle with beef soup, 2 is noodle with seafood-based soup, and 4 is noodle with black bean sauce.

Next, here is how to eat cup noodle. First, unwrap the package of cup noodle, then, unwrap the lid of cup noodle container. You can see noodle, solid ingredient of soup, and powder soup in the container. (Sometimes, solid ingredient of soup is already set with noodle in container.) Second, tear the soup bag and put the contents in container. Third, boil the water using electric kettle in your hotel or a place to stay. When the water is boiled, pour it properly in the container. Last, wait 3-4 minutes and enjoy eating cup noodle!

Fig3. How to eat cup noodles.

Today, I showed cup noodles that usually consumed in Korea. In next article, I will recommand other cup noodles.

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Convenience store in Korea - What kind of CVS in Korea? Tips for travelers

When you are walking on the streets of Korea, you can see many CVSs. Most of CVSs are GS25, CVS for you (CU), Seven Eleven (7-eleven), and MINISTOP. As you know, in CVS, you can buy almost everything 24 hours a day you want including foods, household goods, medicines, and so on.

Fig 1. CVSs in Korea.

You can see these CVS signs everywhere when you are walking on the street of Korea. 

There are CVSs everywhere in other countries. So, I think you can use it easy without any difficulties. In this article, I will show you some tips for buying things in CVS. That is a "buy one get one free" event. You can see many event products when you are in CVS. Most of them are "buy two get one free". Even beers have an event such as "buy two get one free" or "buy four of world beers with 10,000 won (less than 10 dollars)". If you want to drink for cheap in your hotel, it would be good choice.

Fig 2. Tips for buying things in CVS.

When you are in CVS, you can see these figures near the products. (Left figure) (1) It means "buy two get one free". If the first number is one, it means "buy one get one free". (2) It means "period of event". For example, in this figure, the event runs through January (1.1 ~ 31). (3) You can choose it other flavors from the same products. (Right figure) (4) It means "get one free among the products". In this case, you can choose one among the energy drink, hot or iced coffee. (5) It means same as (2).



In next few articles, I will introduce some products that you need to know about and that are currently very popular.

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