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I love food. During my time in Korea, I have been collecting recipes and anecdotes about Korean food. I also have been working on survival techniques for westerners living in Korea.
In this journal are recipes for cooking Korean food in Korea or abroad and recipes for recreating western food with Korean ingredients.
But mostly, it's about enjoying life.
SUBJECT KEY Christmas Chronicles - Trying to celebrate Christmas in Korea
Drink - Imbibe me
Event - Special events involving special Korean foods
FFF (Food for Foreigners) - Recipes for foreigners living in Korea
FP (Food Porn) - Pictures for stimulation
Fusion - A mixture -- or clash -- of cultures
Junk - Junk food
KFC (Korean Food Concept) - A blog entry explaining a type of Korean food
Kimchi - Something about kimchi
KR (Korean Recipe) - A recipe for Korean food, duh!
Miscellaneous - Stuff, stuff, and stuff
News - Korean food in the news
Out There - What others are saying
Rest (Restaurant) - An entry about a restaurant in Korea
Street Food - An entry about a street food concept or adventure
Tip - A survival tip for living or visiting Korea
Video - A summary of a video on the site
WTF - A feature on anything unusual that has to be investigated further
Sunday, October 16, 2005
(Rest #1) Sh-wing!
Sh-wing is a small restaurant in Apgujeong that serves American-style buffalo wings. It is one of our favorite spots.
Because it's far away from most of us, we tend to go only once every one or two months. We usually go during their all-you-can-eat wings time slot.
The staff there is great, especially the spunky waitress who runs the place.
They have made some changes in the past year. New wings have been added to the menu, including Oriental BBQ and Garlic Teryaki. I like them, and they break what used to be a monotony of hot, hotter, and hottest choices of flavors. They have also recently changed their dipping sauce from ranch to blue cheese (yea!).
Still, their claim to fame is a wing flavor called the "Krazy Korean." These are particularly evil. It's not that they're hot -- they're sneaky. Many times a person will eat one and not think it's very hot. So he eats two more. Then the volume on the heat starts turning up at the back of the tongue and travels to the lips, where the victim starts drooling uncontrollably and tries to drink beer and suck in breath to allieve this new suffering brought upon him.
It is our tradition to start each night of wing-eating by eating at least one Krazy. It christens the evening. The beer flows. We help ourselves to more wings and more dipping sauce. And we watch the pretty women walk by outside. It's a great evening.
There's also a good video from November 2004 of Sh-wing.
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