Taeyang is an entrepreneur who has owned and operated a small Asian fusion restaurant with a sushi/sake bar. He loves to marry flavors and textures from various parts of the world and tries to make them his own. He also founded KarFarm.com, and you can find him roaming around the San Francisco Bay Area or Southern California.
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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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I would like to deeply apologize, to all the ZenKimchi followers, for my long absence. I’ll be more diligent in posting more often. One of the representative Korean foods is 삼겹살 (samgyupsal), uncured pork belly, or the Korean bacon. As a matter of fact, samgyupsal’s popularity among Koreans would rival kimchi and...
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I will show you how to make a very simple recipe of stuffed cucumber kimchi called oi sobaegi.
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You loooooooooove bulgogi, but you don’t want to go out to a Korean restaurant. You’re still jonesing for some of that awesome Korean grilled meat, yet you don’t know how to make it at home. Maybe you think prepping bulgogi at home is more difficult than it really is. Well then, you have a couple of choices. You...
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Let’s test your ‘gringo-ness.’ When someone says sushi, what comes to your mind? If you said raw fish, then congratulations – you’re one of the truest of the true gringos. Sushi is the vinegared rice that the slices of raw fish, or any other toppings, rest on. Ok, then what do you call the slices of...
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Recently, a few of my friends have been asking me where to get the best Korean food in the South Bay (San Jose Area of California). It’s then when my drill down questioning starts, because some places make great soups while others make great meat dishes. It is very rare to find a single restaurant that does all types of...
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There is just something about pork smothered in spicy, sweet sauce, grilled over fire. The combination of fire grilled smokiness, mild pork, and honey-like spicy sauce is irresistible. Lately, I have been craving dwaeji bulgogi 돼지불고기 (grilled korean spicy pork) ssambap 쌈밥 (lettuce wrap). Sometimes dwaeji bulgogi is called dwaeji...
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Jajangmyun (자장면) is one of the national foods of Korea, you will not find one Korean person who doesn’t like it. Okay, that might be an exaggeration, but you get the idea. The said tasty noodle dish is Chinese in origin. However, it was created with Korean people’s taste in mind, by Chinese restaurateurs, in Incheon....
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I’ll admit, despite how it looks or tastes, it’s pretty hard to mess up Korean BBQ. Let’s call it Korean grilled meat, to be more accurate. The Korean meat marinade is not that difficult to make, either. The real art is in the type of meat and its preparation. Of course, there is the grilling aspect of the...
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You could say that kimchi is the Swiss Army Knife of the Korean food. It is almost always offered up as banchan on the dinner table, but it can be transformed into myriad of other dishes. One fine example of kimchi becoming the main ingredient in a dish would be kimchi fried rice. If you have some old rice in the rice cooker, some...
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