A few things have bring floating around this week. The big one, even getting tweeted by the Blue House, is this jaw-dropping video of Seoul by independent filmographer Brandon Li. He also has a directors commentary, and he’s putting together some classes to...
Kevin is a second generation Korean-American student contemplating dropping out of medical school as his passion for the culinary world increases, much to the dismay of his traditional parents. I’m sure Chef Hooni Kim could relate. I’ve gotten a sneak peak...
Yes, this actually happened, more than once. Even with more global awareness of world cuisines, there are still restaurants that advertise nachos when they’re really serving chips and dip. Some still serve them with whipped cream, likely because they saw a...
Namyangju, east of Seoul. Picked some strawberries, visited a spider museum, had some amazing bulgogi and not-so-amazing sweet potato spoon pizza. This package took egregiously long to film–around 15 hours. I was a bit miffed. I liked the country restaurant....
I’ve discovered that my little pieces for Arirang’s “Korea Today” are on YouTube. I’ll go ahead and post them. This is the most recent one. We went to the neighborhood of Guro in southern Seoul. It’s a gritty neighborhood that...
Seriously, I’m planning to return to that Chinese restaurant for that sweet and sour octopus. It was light and perfectly flavored. It tasted like American Chinese sweet and sour. This was a long shoot, especially at the Latin American...
