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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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My love affair with buco. And we enjoy some great food on the beach. Oh–and BATS!!
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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....
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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...
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Everyone’s crazy about Choco Pies in Korea. Even North Koreans are. There is a lot of pride taken in this confectionery. It’s assumed in Korea that the Orion company invented this type of treat. That’s why articles like this irk me.
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Asian cuisine, and Korean food in particular, is notoriously difficult to pair with wine. Even wine-lovers agree that beer is easier on the palate, as it combats the ever-present chilli peppers and compliments the potent flavours without neutralising them. What’s more, wine doesn’t play a large role in Korean dining culture. Even...
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