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good morning everyone welcome back to
joan day today we have
a special surprise vlog it is a
lunar new year special sponsored by
sorasu
as you guys just saw sarhasu released
their lunar
new year limited edition first care
activating serum
and i am obsessed
as you all know red is my favorite color
so the fact that my
favorite star sarwasu product is
packaged in my favorite color
it just means a lot to me i received
this as a gift
in this beautiful red packaging
and this year the bottle was inspired by
the intricate beauty of korean
traditional patchwork quilts quilts in
korea have signified happiness and
health
the distinct shapes are reinterpreted
through a modern lens delivering the
happy
festive spirits of new beginnings and
the limited edition bottle offers a
sneak peek to the new and improved
formula
of sar jazoo's iconic bestseller and
this
is a cult global favorite and
i totally understand why i have been
using this product
since i moved to korea back in 2014
and i've talked about this so many times
on both of my channels
but in case you are new to john day or
forgot why
i love this product i wanted to give you
guys a quick review on why i love this
product so much the first care
activating serum
is the essential first step it is
formulated with a cocktail of
five korean herbal ingredients and this
product hydrates nourishes
visibly firms and helps boost absorption
of the following products on your skin
it's actually a product that my mom and
i both love and always have
on our vanity we also like to give this
to our friends and family during the
holidays like
chuseok and zarlar so sarlaar is coming
up
it's on february 12th this year and i
like how in korea
we celebrate new year's twice which is
on january 1st
and whenever it falls on lunar new year
and
in korea we usually have tokug which is
the
rice cake soup and i also like to do
shiba
for the elders where you bow down and
wish them a happy new year
every family is different but that's
basically what i have been doing while
growing up and also
it is very common but there are other
traditions that families follow but
for me it's just those two last year i
celebrated
lunar new year i think in new york
because i was on the shoot with sarah
husso actually
but this year is going to look very
different because there is a four
people limit the government mandated a
strict
social distancing and limited groups of
four
only so they are advising us to not
meet in big groups during the holidays
so in order to stay safe i'm probably
just going to
stay home with my mom and brother also
abe is going to be done with quarantine
very very soon so you guys will be
seeing him on joan day
and his birthday falls on this harley
holiday weekend
so i want to do something special so i'm
gonna have to plan that out but
i'm just going to spend time with my mom
and brother we have about a week until
harley and my mom and i wanted to go
shop for some gifts
because this is the holiday here
it's bigger than christmas actually and
whenever you go shopping
there are big boxes and gift sets of
ginseng skincare toothpaste
oil spam even there's so many
to choose from so my mom and i are going
to look around
and buy gifts for our friends family and
co-workers
that's the plan for today i already
started receiving hard
gifts such as fruit baskets ginseng
and fish so i'm very excited to eat
everything
and so yeah i want to give back to the
people that i
love and care about and yeah make sure
that they feel loved during
this time because it's definitely
looking very different this year
all right let's go shopping quick ootd
before heading on
out this spot is actually where
we have the best lighting in this
apartment it's just i don't like this
messy background but um i did it for
the lighting but today i'm wearing all
black as
usual my favorite i mixed a bunch of
different black
fabrics so it meshes well together my
mom
is done getting ready as well so let's
head on out
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here they have a little section where
you can register
your gifts oh my gosh
it's free if you spend over three
hundred dollars
oh these are all the gifts that people
bought
what is
yeah bigger than christmas thanksgiving
well actually we have our own version of
thanksgiving which is true
but yeah all the gifts are on sale right
now
all everything's like 50 off
40 off buy one get one free
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wow
here we have ginseng one plus one
very good deal so many choices
here we are at the corner where they
have all of the
baskets and boxes we have some han gua
over here these are traditional korean
cookies we have more
ginseng over here
some tea extract so right now in korea
the tart cherries are really popular
because it helps you fall asleep
because they have like this natural
melatonin inside
but i want to give them free oma let's
get this you're going you got hannah
we have some oils
spam oil and spam
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we have the fruit deals whoa
this is the best
is
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good morning everyone it's the day after
we went shopping for some gifts and
basically afterwards we
shipped all of the gift baskets to our
friends and family
and co-workers so hopefully they receive
it soon but this morning my mom
wanted to share her telco recipe because
it is a lunar new year's her life
special so
we thought we would share a taco recipe
with you it's very simple
if i can make it anyone can make it so
let me share with you guys the
ingredients
you'll need rice cakes and dumplings and
our favorites are from pbgo this is not
sponsored we just really love the
dumplings from pbeegle
for the base we're gonna need some meat
you'll need some water
you'll boil this for about 20 minutes
and then add your salt
pepper and garlic and at the end we like
to crack some eggs and also
add some seaweed
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and finally we're going to add the egg
and seaweed
eating takuki is a tradition here in
korea they say that if you eat a bowl
you gain a year like you get a year
older
so even though i'm 29 i am
31 here in korea thanks to
the takuk happy new year
happy new year i hope you guys enjoyed
this honor special i'll see you guys on
monday
have a journey
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