Category: Who’s Who

My partner in culinary crime, Daniel, has changed his site from Epicourageous in Seoul to Seoul Eats. It looks like it’s going to concentrate more on food events and actual places to eat in Seoul, an area that I woefully come short on (considering I live slightly outside Seoul).

Joe at The Joshing Gnome was highly disappointed (understatement) about his experience at the Seven Springs steakhouse.

The Korea Times has a small interview with the young Australian chef Paul Schenk and his inspiration in Seoul.

It’s funny how I stumble upon new Korean food blogs. Do a search on Google, and you don’t find many at the top of the search. I found these blogs through another blog about women in Asia.

Chocopie is an English language blog written by a Korean woman living in Seoul. She hasn’t posted in a long, long while, but it’s full of Korean foods and snacks through a Korean point of view.

Grilled_Aubergine is a blog that seems to have existed for a short period. Written by a woman who worked for a broadcasting company in Korea, she documented great Korean food with great pictures.

Rachel Lynn Seoul is not exclusively about food, but she writes a LOT about it. She’s an English teacher and seems to have adapted well to the heathenist lifestyle many of us in Asia share.

NOW… I need your help…
PLEASE, tell me about any Korean food blogs you come across. I try to hunt them down, but it’s becoming harder than Rachel Ray trying to cook without a can opener.

And then there were four…

Wow! A year ago I started the Food Journal to try to fill the void left by Fat Man Seoul. Now I see there are four English language Korean food blogs residing in Korea.

(If there are any other Korean food blogs inside Korea that I haven’t featured, please tell me.)

My Korean Kitchen does what I wish I could do here. It is a practical “step by step” recipe guide. Sue uses great photography and creates great food. Check out the bossam. Then the doenjang jjigae. Oh, and she cooks with oysters too. Mashikita! (Eun Jeong, are you reading this?)

It started when her husband told her he wished there was a site to explain Korean ingredients to foreigners. So far, it’s mostly been recipes for Korean food — and they’re great. She’s filling a too long empty void on the Internets. We have needed My Korean Kitchen for a long time.

Thank you, Sue!

I was looking at one blog that linked here, and it linked to another food blog. The Daily Kimchi. It’s fairly new, started in June 2006. And it promises to be one of those great must reads in the growing realm of Korean food blogs.

I like Gdog’s humor and fresh eye. He’s already posted about things that I’ve been meaning to post for a long time, like Two Two Fried Chicken, my first fried chicken experience in Korea that obliterated my cultural prejudice from Southern fried chicken.

It’s great that Gdog came to the country with cameras blaring. He’s pointing out a lot of stuff I had gotten used to, taking pics, and giving an entertaining read.

Gdog, don’t let yourself get jaded, man. Hold on to that fresh perspective and publish more observations on why this country never lets us get bored.

Mary started popping up at eGullet, talking about Korean restaurants. I was curious about her blog that she was plugging oh so subtly.

Let me tell you this. She has a cool blog. Mary herself is a freelance restaurant reviewer, and she has pictures and stories about her travels through Seoul and other parts of the world.

The section I find most interesting is the “Articles” page, where she posts the restaurant reviews she has written for the Korea Times and the Korea Herald.