by shinshine | May 4, 2011 | Korean Food 101, Korean Recipes, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
[media-credit name=”shinshine” link=”http://www.shinshine.com” align=”alignnone” width=”700″][/media-credit] Many Koreans call yangnyeom gejang a ‘meal thief’ (밥도둑; bap do duk), a dish so delicious that the... 
by ZenKimchi | Dec 11, 2007 | Korean Food 101, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
I pass by these restaurants with the giant crabs on them all the time in Korea, and I’ve seen them in Japan. I haven’t gone to one yet because they are prohibitively expensive. I’ve had what Koreans call dae ge 대게, or big crab. That was from a street... 
by ZenKimchi | Oct 11, 2007 | Korean Food 101, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
Here we go again with the marinated crab. This was a restaurant that specialized in SundaeGuk 순대국, and I was going to order it. Then I saw on a handwritten sign “Marinated Crab Lunch” (Kei-jang Jeong Shik 게장 한정식). Had to try that. I know my mom would die... 
by ZenKimchi | Mar 30, 2007 | Korean Food 101, Top Posts, Top Posts - Winter
These are one of my first loves in Korean food. Whenever we went out for galbi, I pushed for the restaurants with the best GeiJang 게장, raw split crabs smothered in a gochujang mixture. Eun Jeong tries to make it look dignified, but, like eating ribs in the South,...