by ZenKimchi | Nov 17, 2018 | Diary
Tomorrow’s our third annual neighborhood Thanksgiving. Jian is really into it this year. When I was a kid, my cousin Matthew had a funny story he still repeats each year. It was his job when we were tweens to make the sweet potato casserole. He mistook a shot of...
by ZenKimchi | Sep 26, 2018 | Diary
Lately Chuseok and Seollal have been my “Bachelor Weeks.” I usually get tours booked, so I have to stay in the Seoul area during the holidays while the girls go visit the family in Gyeongju. My plans were thwarted this time. Nah, it’s all good....
by ZenKimchi | Jul 16, 2018 | Diary
It has already been four years since the last move. That move in 2014 was a big one. I had lived in that apartment and in Anyang longer than I’d lived anywhere in my adult life. So much history had happened there, including my marriage and the birth of my...
by ZenKimchi | Jun 16, 2018 | Diary
A week has passed. This is more of a personal post, so forgive the rambling. I decided to take the website off of “mourning mode.” It’s no longer black and gray. It’s not that I’m done mourning–well, I am. At this point in my life,...
by ZenKimchi | Jun 9, 2018 | Diary, Featured
We will hear a lot of tributes from the restaurant community about Anthony Bourdain. He’s always been identified as a chef first. That’s his tribe. There’s another tribe that has secretly claimed him since he started his travels in “A...
by ZenKimchi | Feb 18, 2018 | Diary, Featured
I wouldn’t have done this if not for my daughter, Jian. After all this time, the PyeongChang Olympics finally started. They had twice attempted to get the Olympics and got it on the third try. I actually hosted a video in 2011 that was supposedly shown to the...
