This just raises my hackles. I’m sorry for being political again on a food blog, but sometimes you can’t separate food and politics. And I think Americans need to know, especially my fellow progressives commenting on this issue, what is behind the mad cow hysteria in South Korea. Now, let me point out ahead of [...]
You’re Tellin’ Us to Do WHAT?
Restaurants in Korea are getting a taste of what expats receive on an annual basis: sweeping changes of rules done quickly with little organization and thought and no guidelines on implementing them. They’re upset and baffled by the new regulation requiring them to label the origin of beef on each menu item and side dish. [...]
Watched Shikgaek
I watched the first episode of Shikgaek Tuesday night. I’ll keep watching it for the food, even though it suffers from the same awkwardness and, well, either the show misses some cogent points, or I’m missing them. The Joshing Gnome wrote a post about it: Shikgaek is dumb Shikgaek (식객) is, for those of you [...]
ZenKimchi is Flickr-ized
I’ve shelled out the money and set up a Flickr account. For weeks I have been uploading and organizing every single picture I’ve ever taken in Korea. Seriously, it’s very organized–by restaurant, by food type, by month. I hope you can use this as a one-stop food porn source when it comes to Korean food. [...]