Black breakfast
(Kellog’s Korean cereal)
There’s a little Korean shop along our street that sells, amongst Korean specialities, pearl tea and juice, electricals, foodstuffs and stationary. It is one of my favourite shops because of the compact but surprisingly exciting stationary selection, especially notebooks and stickers. Such a myriad of various shapes, sizes, textures and colours of adhesive paper for almost any use; I found a set of that have a colourful, animal related cartoon sticker for every key of a computer keyboard – typing will never be a chore.
More useful items are found in the food section, along with this cereal. Originally, it caught our eye because the flakes appeared to be black; our first assumption was that it may have a mushroom extract. With some further thought, perhaps fungus cereal was a bit outlandish so since neither of us can read Korean, we bought a box. Upon tasting the cereal, we discovered that the colour is derived from sesame seeds. It has a rather sweet, pleasant flavour, if a little overpowering. I’m not sure if I have ever tried something from a brand I recognise without having a clue what it could actually be made from – it’s a bizarre feeling; opening packaging I cannot read, looking at an image I don’t understand and even putting something in my breakfast bowl that I am clueless about. I don’t think that has happened since I was two or three and back then, everything felt like that.
