by Tammy | Feb 1, 2011 | Kimchi, Street Food, Top Posts
There’s arguably no food more recognizably Korean than spicy cabbage kimchi. But what is quintessentially American? Few meats are more so than bison. Hunted nearly to extinction in the 19th century, the American buffalo was brought back from the brink of...
by Tammy | Nov 15, 2010 | Korean Food 101, Korean Recipes, Street Food, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
I found a Danish Æbelskiver pancake pan at William-Sonoma some time ago. I kept staring at the catalog, scratching my head trying to figure out why the pan and its baked contents looked so familiar. Then I realized I was looking at the perfect pul-bbang pan....
by Tammy | Sep 25, 2010 | Modern Korean, Street Food, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
Korean fusion cooking is not a one-way street where Westerners tinker with Korean dishes to make them more appealing to Westerners. Koreans also have “fusion” recipes, in which they have Korean-ized either Western or Japanese dishes. One of the more recent...
by Tammy | Sep 3, 2010 | Featured, Festival, Globalization, Kimchi, Street Food
Among the more than 80 caterers, mobile and brick-and-mortar restaurants, and food-related vendors at the second annual Eat Real Festival in the San Francisco Bay area were two Korean “taco trucks,” a nouveau hanshik restaurant, a ramen restaurant serving...
by ZenKimchi | Jun 29, 2010 | Featured, Street Food
I think Roboseyo or Fatman introduced me to this. We were on a mid-town street food excursion, when they said we had to try this HoDdeok 호떡 (pronounced HO-dock with a very hard /d/ bordering on a /t/). I like HoDdeok. My first impression of these sweet molten...
by ZenKimchi | Jun 22, 2010 | Featured, Street Food
I just noticed these in Insa-dong. Actually, I didn’t notice them in Insa-dong. We were so rushed with doing street food munching video footage for SBS that I didn’t investigate this further until I downloaded my pics at home. If I had been paying closer...
