18 Responses for "Street Peeps: Birthday Party!"

1. lovelyprincess September 9th, 2008 at 11:00 am 1

   Whoa! They look “old” to be in middle school. I’m shocked!

2. WhatIsInTheFood September 9th, 2008 at 11:20 am 2

   Can you tell where tehy got the cake from?

3. 수경 September 9th, 2008 at 11:55 am 3

   cuteness… ^^

   haha i wish i was so young again, and i can do those silly crazy things again

4. lovelyprincess September 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm 4

   whoa….They look old for middle school girls. I’m shocked!

5. lovelyprincess September 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm 5

   I may not be in middle school, but I’d stillgo out and be silly like this. Middle schol people aren’t the only young people in the world. Maybe they think so, but they are not.

6. joanna September 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm 6

   wow they’re so stylish for middle schoolers

7. FMS September 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm 7

   LP — I don’t think they think they’re the only young ppl in the world. They just posed for a pic, man.

8. FMS September 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm 8

   #2 — Says “Paris Baguette” on the box. One of them probably bought it on the way to meet each other, and they’ll go eat it in the restaurant they probably headed off to. Most restaurants these days will let you bring a cake for dessert.

9. lovelyprincess September 9th, 2008 at 3:48 pm 9

   Of course. People have been taking cakes to restaurants and bars here like forevr.

10. ExpatJane September 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm 10

    1) They don’t look that old. None are balancing on heels way too high and they’re all pretty casually dressed. Typical teenagers, in my opinion.

    2) They look like they’re out to have fun (but I do question the fashion angle here…I’m not really seeing anything interesting - but I live in Seoul, sooooooooooooo…maybe I’m just dead to it.)

    3) Paris Baguette - that’s where the cake is from. That’s on the box. Actually, everyone doesn’t eat cake in restaurants and bars. It’s a tad bit tacky.

11. lovelyprincess September 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pm 11

    Maybe everyone doesn’t, but I see TONS of people taking cakes to bars and restaurants to eat. Just wait until Christmas Eve and you’ll see. Also, lots of people do the same for birthdays or couple anniversaries.

12. Maximus September 9th, 2008 at 11:45 pm 12

    The attitude of celebrating someone’s birthday is good. Like that.

    One thing that is pretty standard, though, is the Paris Baguette cake. They are good, don’t get me wrong, but you don’t see much variety, i.e. somebody doing the cake, for example. Question is, 1) does it have to come from PB to be considered “good/nice” since is a “brand”; 2) is it a matter of “fitting the group”, i.e., as we know, in Korea everybody must do the same; or 3) it’s just lack of option?

13. FMS September 10th, 2008 at 12:07 am 13

    Well, there are all different kinds of cakes one can buy. I don’t know if there’s much more/less variety of cakes in Korea than anywhere else — Korea has a lot of bakeries, many of the them large, nationwide ones. I don’t know if say, the US, has even as many as Korea, actually.

    Since people generally don’t hang out at home and often celebrate by having to pick up a cake somewhere (and seeing people walking around with cakes going somewhere is very common), you actually have lots of options in terms of cakes being ready to walk out the door, from Paris Baguette to Crown Bakery to Tous les Jous, and then there’s all kinds of smaller chains and independent ones as well. Then you’ve got Baskin Robbins or Dunkin Donuts or Coldstone — cakes just sell well here.

    And if you get into Christmas/New Year’s, the cake action is intense in a way that it isn’t in the west. In short, Koreans consume a LOT of cakes to commemorate all kinds of occasions.

14. vivi September 11th, 2008 at 2:26 am 14

    THEY seem2be just hanging out together as freinds.. on the way they got those fun accessories ,which they must have thought for fun photography.. and yea well that was fun ..they are casually dressed giving the damn attitude.. but looks cool and trendy and overall it looks fun of the day.. Hope they had a great time!!

15. cjlatina September 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am 15

    I love wakkie glasses, and I am liking the girl on the left’s orange sandal heel shoes.

    Also do anyone know where I can get a Korean baked cake or Japanese baked cake in the Bay Area by or in Oakland, Ca.

    I have always wanted to try a Korean or Japanese baked cake.

16. cjlatina September 11th, 2008 at 1:06 pm 16

    I swear I don’t have the Tourette disorder my comments weren’t showing up at the time I was leaving them.

    So FMS please delete some of my comments…..Good lord this is embarrassing.

17. FMS September 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pm 17

    Haha — I’m sorry. It’s just a funny side-effect of having installed a new list of words that puts comments into moderation mode automatically, where I have to approve them.

    The funny thing is that it’s an over-aggressive list I received, and “ass” was on it. Since “glasses” includes “ass”, all your posts got flagged. I’ve delete the duplicates, as you’ve requested.

    Sorry about that — we’re just working on finally putting the proper anti-spam and spam comment protection in, and it was a bit too aggressive. All the words it’s watching for now are not parts of normal words anymore. So you can say “glasses” again now, anytime!

    Thanks for being patient with us. And no — you don’t have Tourette’s!

18. lovelyprincess September 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm 18

    I think the best bought cakes in Korea come froma place called Hans Patisserie. I think it may be a small chain, because they aren’t on eevry corner like Paris Baguette. Paris Croissant has good stuff too. Still, homemade cakes made by my Mom and I are my fav!