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... by ZenKimchi | Jan 2, 2018 | Diary
This is one of my personal posts. Super personal, so don’t expect any Korean food talk here. It’s also going to get a bit bleak. This started out as a personal diary in 2004, and I still use it as such. I took a quick glance at my 2016 post. That was a bad... 
by ZenKimchi | Mar 16, 2017 | Diary, Featured
I arrived in Korea in 2004. I already had an interest in the country because of a couple courses in Korean history I took. The plan was to stay a year, but when that first year was up, I looked at all the change happening around me. This was a part of the world where... 
by ZenKimchi | Dec 31, 2016 | Diary
Everyone’s talking about how 2016 was such a bad year. I agree with that. In my personal/professional life, I didn’t have a great year as well. I’ve been silent about some of these stories because it’s taken me a long time to process them....