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ZenKimchi Korean Food JournalZenKimchi Korean Food JournalExplorations in Korean food, including great photos, recipes, and survival tips for living in Korea 
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OngGi Mandu ? Fresh Dumplings
2008-05-05 13:30:00 A mandu shop opened up near my work to add a slight bit more variety to the dearth of places to eat in that neighborhood. It’s a shop the size of a closet called OngGi Mandu ?? ??, and it looks like it’s a franchise. Now, in the past few years, people in Korea have been ... More About: Restaurant , Fresh
Korean Beef Producers Coping by Innovating
2008-05-02 03:14:00 I know it sounds cold. But protecting the Korean beef industry through silly measures as saying that boneless beef from the U.S. is safer than bone-in is bound to not last long. It sounded like a desperate charade and still does. Full importation of U.S. beef will continue this month for the first time since 2003. ... More About: News , Beef , Coping , Producers
Chinese-Korean or Korean-Chinese?
2008-04-27 04:17:00 SFoodie, from SFWeekly, talks about JjajangMyeon and Tangsuyuk in San Francisco. In Korea, we know this as Korean -style Chinese food. In the post, Brian Bernbaum calls it Chinese-style Korean. So which is it, any of you with any opinion on the subject? More About: Out There
More Vids of Larvae and Live Octopus
2008-04-23 04:42:00 Gilad and Dawna from It’s Korea Now have posted some videos of them eating Beondaeggi ??? (Silkworm Larvae) and picking and eating their super fresh seafood in Busan. Here’s a sample: More About: Video , Live , Vids , Octopus
A Few Words on Acorn Jelly
2008-04-22 03:31:00 Wan Yan Ling, the Grocery Ninja at Serious Eats, explores the controversial questions about Korean acorn jelly (DotoriMuk ????) that everyone wants to know. And come on, you know those questions have been itchin’ at ya. More About: Words , Out There , Jelly
Epicourageous is now Seoul Eats
2008-04-22 03:10:00 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).
Annalog Does Dalk Galbi
2008-04-22 03:04:00 Our good videographing friend Annalog recently posted a video of eating Dalk Galbi ? ??, chicken stir-fried in vegetables, spicy sauce and squishy chewy rice cakes. More About: Video
?They Taste Like Nuts, But They?re Juicy Inside?
2008-04-22 03:02:00 Joshua from An American in Geoje and his friend Michael recently had a very ZenKimchi experience dear to my heart. They went to what seems like a makkoli bar and randomly tried the food there. Makkoli bars are shamelessly traditional–to the point that the guys were served Beondaeggi ??? (Silkworm Larvae) in lieu of ... More About: Inside , Taste , Nuts
Cold Sesame Noodles with Kimchi
2008-04-16 07:32:00 Courtesy of Blake from Serious Eats. More About: Cold , Out There , Sesame , Noodles , Kimchi
Pinkberry Settles
2008-04-16 07:28:00 Korean-style frozen yogurt trendsetter Pinkberry has settled with the state of California for claiming that its frozen yogurt-like product was actually frozen yogurt and for making unproven health claims. For those of us who live in Korea and deal with slam advertising of “well-being” pizza, coffee and even cigarettes, we say, “What’s new about that?” Now, excuse ... More About: News
Mmm? Korean Space Food
2008-04-11 05:03:00 (image from The Korea Times) I can’t believe I have met someone who is up in space right now (literally… I know too many who are up there figuratively). So this is the food that Yi So-yeon has brought with her and has likely already made for herself and the Soyuz crew. Starting clockwise from the left: ... More About: Food , Space , Korean
VONS Chicken and Beer
2008-04-08 05:29:00 A little shout out to the town of Gyeongju, the cradle of the Silla kingdom. While I was visiting the future in-laws for the first time, they wanted to introduce me to this chicken place, VONS. They swore by it. VONS makes both fried and smoked chicken. They ordered the smoked that night. It was ni-i-i-ce. ... More About: Beer , Chicken
Gochu Poppers
2008-04-08 03:31:00 [NOTE: I wrote this for the April 2nd edition of Expat Living in The Korea Herald] PDF of the article Out of all the adapted recipes I?ve written about in this column, this has to be the tastiest by far. I was surprised that it turned out so well. It?s so simple yet so addictive. A staple American ...
Go Green? Tomatoes
2008-04-08 03:25:00 [NOTE: I wrote this article for the March 26th edition of Expat Living in The Korea Herald] PDF of the article Expect to get funny looks. We are heading into the early throes of tomato season. We are so early that many tomatoes at the market will be green. I have been given quizzical comments by grocers ... More About: Green , Tomatoes
Authentically Unauthentic Irish Stew
2008-04-08 03:22:00 [NOTE: I wrote this article for the March 13th St. Patrick’s edition of Expat Living in The Korea Herald] PDF of the article Here?s a little disclaimer before we start. None that follows is traditional. It is far from authentic. It is nothing like your Irish grandmother?s food. Yet it tastes good, and that?s all that matters, ...
Feed Your Face
2008-04-01 07:24:00 The main site may be in April Fools mode, but this post is no joke. Kim at Socius in Daejeon reports that The Face Shop is planning to launch a line of kimchi-based cosmetics that take advantage of the lactic acid and antioxidants in the “super food.” On top of that, the Chosun Ilbo says ... More About: Feed
GOOD Magazine: Make Way for Bibimbap
2008-04-01 03:09:00 Sushi is so ’80s. GOOD Magazine lists its top ten replacements for sushi as the next big food trends. Bibimbap ranks as #6. More About: Make , Good
Korean Celebrity Restaurants
2008-03-28 03:20:00 Cathy Rose A. Garcia and Han Sang-hee at The Korea Times have written an article detailing some major celebrity-owned restaurants in Korea, such as the super hyper health conscious Gorilla in the Kitchen from Bae Young Joon (still trying to be Korea’s freaky Michael Jackson), frequent Itaewon denizen Hong Suk-chun’s three restaurants in said neighborhood ... More About: Celebrity , Restaurants , Out There , Korean
The Seoul Podcast is?Podcasting
2008-03-28 02:48:00 It took a few months of setting up. We are proud to announce that the new Seoul Podcast is up and running with its inaugural episode “Reverse Culture Shock” with special guest panelist Karl from the original Seoul Survivors. Enjoy. -- ZKFJ More About: Podcasting
Eat the Cookies, Not the Steak
2008-03-27 03:50:00 Joe at The Joshing Gnome was highly disappointed (understatement) about his experience at the Seven Springs steakhouse. -- ZKFJ More About: Restaurant , Cookies , Steak
Iron Chef for the Nintendo
2008-03-11 01:51:00 Oh, this will be not be pretty… -- ZKFJ More About: Nintendo , Chef , Iron
Eating on the Green Line?Supplement to SEOUL Magazine article
2008-03-10 03:38:00 My latest column hit SEOUL Magazine this month. For a couple of months now, I have been given two pages instead of one and have been asked to include more specific places to go. It’s a bit daunting because I work until 8:30 during the week, Seoul is thirty minutes away by subway, and the ... More About: Article , Green , Supplement , Line
Slashfood Does Samgyetang
2008-03-10 02:14:00 Joe DiStefano of Slashfood talks about the restorative powers of the ginseng whole chicken soup, Samgyetang ???. -- ZKFJ More About: Out There
AskMen?s Top Ten Spiciest Foods
2008-03-06 23:46:00 AskMen.com has posted an article on what it thinks are the ten spiciest foods in the world. Don’t worry. Korea’s on there. -- ZKFJ More About: Foods
The Looming Food Crisis
2008-03-05 03:20:00 A Choson Ilbo article is again pointing out that South Korea is unprepared for the worldwide grain shortage, especially when compared to Japan. Japan has gone out and obtained swaths of cropland bigger than Japan itself to help it withstand any grain shortage. Korea has very little in stores, way less than the FAO recommends. ... More About: News , Food , Crisis
How to Pump Up Slumping Fast Food Sales??
2008-03-01 02:05:00 Make it taste better! At least that’s one of the reasons that The Asia Pacific Post gave for the turnaround in fast food’s profits in South Korea this year after five years of decline. Oh, and breakfast. Basically, it says that chains like Lotteria and McDonald’s are finally having good business again. They tried to get the well-being ... More About: Food , Fast Food , Sales , Fast , Junk
Grits in Korea
2008-02-27 03:17:00 This is a blog supplement to my article appearing in The Korea Herald this week. Wow, it’s taken me two and a half years to get around to sharing one of the finds that was one of the reasons for starting the Food Journal. During the short stint where I tolerated–lived–in Seoul, I lived down the street ...
The Obligatory Space Kimchi Post
2008-02-25 15:53:00 I had mentioned a while back that researchers were working on space-friendly kimchi. So when they finally came through with a product, I thought, well, okay–old news. But the unveiling of space kimchi is getting this story some more legs. It was in The New York Times this past weekend. Some part of me, though, feels ... More About: News , Space , Post , Kimchi
Ne, Ne Chicken ????
2008-02-24 15:05:00 I was really craving fried chicken one night. Oh yeah, I had come across a post about BBQ and had written something about it. So, I came home and said I wanted some chicken. Fried. Eun Jeong wanted to try a new place that had opened and was advertising. The celebs ... More About: Chicken
From ?Hallyu? to ?Illyu?
More articles from this author:2008-02-23 03:20:00 Wow, The Korea Times beat me to it–at least in publication date. I mention a little bit in my next SEOUL Magazine article about Japanese food culture starting to spread in Seoul. Yes, I know, Japan is right next door, and it’s taken a long time–but there’s some fussy history there that kinda slowed things ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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