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Posts made in July, 2008
At my local E-Mart, they’ve been selling sea snails (Golbaeng-i 골뱅이) next to the shrimp. I had looked at them a few times but frequently passed them up. Then one evening, one of the staff had steamed up a bunch and was trying to get shoppers to try it. My impression was that Korean...
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Fatman Seoul was the original inspiration for the ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal.
Well, my friends, it has been revived by none other than Michael Hurt, creator of The Metropolitician, Bomb English, and, well, FEETman Seoul.
This is a good day in Korean food.
[Original Fatman Seoul]
[New Fatman...
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Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler, published an article about food in Seoul in The New York Times, along with some video. Daniel Gray of Seoul Eats is prominently featured. WOO HOO!
Oh, and ZenKimchi gets a blurb, too.
[Choice Tables - The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately,...
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Recently, I talked about the experience of bad service at this seafood restaurant. Nonetheless, I did take pictures of the dish that they told us was squid MulHui but obviously wasn’t. I was too busy taking pictures to pay attention to the fuming of Eun Jeong across the table. Then I realized,...
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I’ve gone back to trying to watch “Shikgaek,” or as the English blogs now call it, “Gourmet.”
Call me a curmudgeon. The food porn on the show just ain’t doin’ it for me. They show many things that look pretty, usually in concentric circles, but little of it looks...
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