Previous

Recent From Beverages

TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice

TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice Posted by on Jun 17, 2013

Recent From Food For Foreigners

Kitchen Hacking: Lasagna

Kitchen Hacking: Lasagna Posted by on Feb 7, 2013

Recent From Food Porn

A Day in King Crab Vegas

A Day in King Crab Vegas Posted by on Feb 20, 2013

Recent From Korean Food 101

Leek Doughnuts from the W Seoul Walkerhi...

Leek Doughnuts from the W Seoul Walkerhill Posted by on Jun 19, 2013

Recent From Korean Recipes

Recipe: Cilantro Kimchi

Recipe: Cilantro Kimchi Posted by on Apr 15, 2013

Recent From News & Media

Philippines, Day 5: Naga City

Philippines, Day 5: Naga City Posted by on Jun 19, 2013

Recent From Podcast

DalkGalbi and Other Gangwon Province Fav...

DalkGalbi and Other Gangwon Province Faves–ZenKimchi Foodcast Posted by on Jul 26, 2012

Recent From Street Food

TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice

TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice Posted by on Jun 17, 2013

Recent From Top Posts

First Full Moon Day and Energy Tteok

First Full Moon Day and Energy Tteok Posted by on Feb 27, 2010

Recent From Tours

The Dark Side of Seoul Tour

The Dark Side of Seoul Tour Posted by on Oct 2, 2012

Recent From Video

Video: How to Cook Filipino Seafood Beac...

Video: How to Cook Filipino Seafood Beach Style Posted by on May 24, 2013

Recent From WTF

Leek Doughnuts from the W Seoul Walkerhi...

Leek Doughnuts from the W Seoul Walkerhill Posted by on Jun 19, 2013
Next

Recent Posts

Another Reason Why Naver Sucks

Jun 19, 13 Another Reason Why Naver Sucks

Posted by in Commentary

Continuing from the previous rant. Naver participates in the same off-the-shelf lazy programming that many Korean web services do. Being the dominant player with lots more money, you’d think they’d know better. One of the many egregious boners they pull is using ActiveX for their services. ActiveX was brought about by...

read more

TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice

Jun 17, 13 TRENDWATCH: Sugar Cane Juice

Posted by in Beverages, Featured, Food Trend, Street Food

You can tell when a vendor has had some success at one of the many food expos during the year. It looks like sugar cane juicers hit it big. There are three major areas where I check for street food trends, Insa-dong, Myeong-dong, and Hongdae. I first saw this in Hongdae last month, and I saw it again last weekend in Myeong-dong....

read more

TRENDWATCH: Schneeballen

Jun 17, 13 TRENDWATCH: Schneeballen

Posted by in Featured, Food Trend, Junk Food & Treats

These have been popping up in various places around Seoul. They originate from Rothenberg, Germany, one of my favorite places in Europe, but I had not seen them when I lived in Germany. It does look like they do have some copycats jumping on the trend, though. They come in different sweet and savory flavors. I got one that was...

read more

Why Naver is the Worst Food Blogging Platform

Jun 17, 13 Why Naver is the Worst Food Blogging Platform

Posted by in Commentary, Featured

Outside of Korea, you may not have heard of Naver. Inside Korea, it dominates the internet. Seventy percent of it. It’s like Google–but evil. A recent article came out on how Naver’s business model is not to acquire innovative start-ups but to blatantly copy their innovations. Also, unlike Google, in order to get...

read more

Philippines, Day 4: Boarding the Bicol Express

Jun 12, 13 Philippines, Day 4: Boarding the Bicol Express

Posted by in Featured, Nothing to do with Korea

Another traveling day. We packed our things and went back to Goodchow for breakfast. I went for the Longsilog. ___silog is a breakfast of a main, fried rice, and egg. The “long” in my Longsilog was sweet garlicky longanisa sausages, which I could eat every day for breakfast.       We drove to the ferry terminal and...

read more

Game of Thrones Pop-up Restaurant

Jun 11, 13 Game of Thrones Pop-up Restaurant

Posted by in Events & Holidays, Featured

We did it! The Game of Thrones Pop-up Restaurant happened last night at Magpie Brewing Company, and it was a success. Thanks all of you who turned out for the event. As you saw, I was extremely busy the entire time either cooking or cleaning. Wish I had more time. But it seems like the food was enjoyed, considering how little we...

read more

Video: How to Cook Filipino Seafood Beach Style

May 24, 13 Video: How to Cook Filipino Seafood Beach Style

Posted by in Featured, Nothing to do with Korea, Video

We had bought some large prawns and crab at a local seafood market. At the beach, our friends took our bounty to an outdoor kitchen to cook them up. The methods may seem a bit odd to you, but you wouldn’t believe how great it smelled. I could smell it even when I was editing the video. And the end results would blow your...

read more

Philippines, Day 3: Buco Beach Party

May 23, 13 Philippines, Day 3: Buco Beach Party

Posted by in Featured, Nothing to do with Korea

My love affair with buco. And we enjoy some great food on the beach. Oh–and BATS!!

read more

BCD Tofu House – Los Angeles

May 23, 13 BCD Tofu House – Los Angeles

Posted by in Featured, Restaurants

Bukchang-dong (or BCD) Tofu House has been one of the most popular Korean restaurants for years. I believe it’s one of those rare Korean restaurants that was born in America and made its way back to the Motherland, Korea. They have 15 locations in and around the Los Angeles region, New York, New Jersey, Seattle, and Seoul....

read more

Banchan: Hansik’s Dead, Jim

May 20, 13 Banchan: Hansik’s Dead, Jim

Posted by in Featured, News & Media

The doctor has officially pronounced it. The government’s Korean food globalization campaign was an expensive failure.  Well, maybe not a total failure. It did enrich the pockets of a lot of charlatans with government connections (we weren’t one of them, DARN those sour grapes!). I remember people calling us out on the...

read more
Close
Please support the site
By clicking any of these buttons you help our site to get better

Twitter

Facebook

Google+