Food Porn: Baru Revisited
Last year, my concept of Buddhist temple cuisine
Posted by Tammy Pesto Butter is a classic compound butter but you can replace the basil pesto with kkaenip pesto for an exotic Korean-style spin. You can easily...
My journey of eating away a whole chicken is complete (for now). I hope this series at least showed you different possibilities of Korean (-related) dishes you can get...
Posted by shinshine This started from my realization that the last bag of shredded chicken meat I had wasn’t enough to make anything substantial. Still, I didn’t want to go back to...
Posted by shinshine Today is chobok (초복), marking the first of boknal (복날), which are the three hottest days of the year by lunar calendar. Although chicken is popular in Korea all year...
Posted by shinshine It seems that the growing popularity of Korean chicken in recent years has amounted to a “cult of crunchy, spicy, perfectly nongreasy chicken“ which is only getting bigger with the quest for...
I have seen this pop up in a few places this month, and the cafes are popular....
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Everyone’s in vacation mode, and I think we’ve been a little guilty of it ourselves at ZenKimchi....
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The Korea National Tourism Organization has come out with KoreaTaste.org, a site dedicated to Korean food. It’s...
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Chris in South Korea (not pictured above) hits the streets and gives us a firsthand account of...
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We’re bringing back the ZenKimchi Newsletter. We’ll have the most popular posts from the blog plus tips...
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Before you head off to the beach for the weekend, in person or in mind, here’s what’s...
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Word has spread through the social media networks that Taco Bell Korea is having a sort of...
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On July 6 for the sixth straight year, an animal rights group led a protest in front of...
July 8 2010 / View Comments / Read More »According to Yonhap News via reports through the official North Korean state media, Pyongyang has more than 150 beer houses and growing. The official North Korean beer, Taedonggang, has modernized its manufacturing facilities with computers. You may remember it from this surreal advertisement. It’s actually gotten some international recognition, including an international standard quality certificate...
July 1 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Last year, my concept of Buddhist temple cuisine was floored by a visit to Baru soon after it opened. I recently returned, this time with a better camera. I am still blown away by most of the food there. The fruit and veggie chips are everyone’s favorite. This time around, they served a meatless Gganpunggi,...
July 30 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Here’s a little clip making fun of Hollywood producing movies just for the marketing tie-ins–using Pinkberry. Remember Pinkberry? I don’t know. I’m in Korea. The fro-yo craze died here years ago. I think only three Red Mangoes exist on the peninsula now. [HT to Mr. Reader. From slashfilm.]...
July 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Popular expat-owned bookstore What the Book? has moved from its location in a basement off of Hooker Hill to the second floor of the building next to Burger King and the post office in Itaewon. It opens on July 8th. Gonna have to change my landmarks....
July 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Brian out of Jeollanam-do recently did a cell phone pic dump from his time in Korea. One notable pic was what was actually considered palatable in a school cafeteria. Seriously thinking of teaching a course in Korea on basic sandwich rules....
June 27 2010 / View Comments / Read More »I’m trying not to show my bias in this. Seoul has had a love-hate relationship with its own street food. Even though they are heavily patronized by citizens, the government...
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The Korean has translated and posted two columns by food writer Hwang Go-Ik about his love for dog meat. He addresses some...
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The Korean government is working overtime to convince Americans (and all foreigners) of the superior benefits of Korean cuisine. Even before the...
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Continuing their series on great amateur photography, authentic French bakery Guillaume will feature Paul Colin Redmond’s exhibition, “Days in India” at their...
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According to Dan, there are 5 spots left for the dalkgalbi cooking class, run by ZenKimchi sponsor O’ngo Food Communications, this Saturday....
June 23 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Korea House will be holding a royal court cuisine cooking class on Saturday, July 24th at 3:30 p.m. The class will last around two hours and includes a tour of...
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