Aren’t you about oversatiated with not only year-end but decade-end reviews and lists?

Come on, you can take one more.  It’s wafer thin.

Here’s a quick rundown of the year in Korean food and the ZenKimchi universe.

January

• Made a reuben with homemade corned beef and homemade sauerkraut
• Cooked what we think may have been a street pigeon
• Kogi truck starts making the news

February

• The “Stuck in the ’80s” hosts get nastied over a care package of Korean snacks

March

• Government wants to change ddeokbokki to topokki
• Dokdo Is Ours mocks it
• Pizza School’s super carb bomb spaghetti pizza

April

• Found a horse meat restaurant in Anyang–and it actually tasted great!
  
• Bizarre Foods: South Korea premieres on the Travel Channel.  Eun Jeong and Dan Gray eat turtle.
• Eun Jeong gives some Doenjang Jjigae secrets
  
• Ricetard
  
• Chef Ben cooks for Woody Harrelson and the cast and crew of Zombieland

May

• Tomatillo’s Cinco di Mayo party–or Westerners Will Wait 3 Hours for a Taco
  
• ZenKimchi Dining debuts
• KBS documentary on Korean food with ZenKimchi, Fatman, Seoul Eats and more shows on Korean TV
  
• BBQ on the DMZ
  
• Serious Eats visits Seoul

June

• ZenKimchi on Arirang TV
• Steve Ward contributes his first piece to ZenKimchi
  
• Decent frozen foods start showing up at the big boxes
  
• W Seoul’s Kitchen rolls out its contemporary Korean menu

July

• Joe and Eun Jeong are one of the featured couples in a Korea Herald article
  
• Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie: South Korea premieres on public TV stations in the U.S.
• Urban rafting
• Found pierogies at a bar in Anyang
• Korea Times article features ZenKimchi and the other food bloggers

August

• Bette Midler makes kimchi
  
• Joe featured on the cover of Groove Magazine
  
• Top Chef 6 starts with Chef Ben’s buddy Eli as one of the contestants.  Ends up in the top five.
• The godfather of Korean food writing, Andrew Salmon, contributes to ZenKimchi about the new spicy burger from Burger King.  Turned out to not be consistent across franchise locations.
• Expat fave “Star Chef” Kim cooks for a week on EBS
• “The Korean” broaches the dog meat controversy

September

• North Korean naengmyeon ad
  
• ZenKimchi Dining is in the Korea Herald
  
• Joe writes a piece for Newsweek Korea.  There’s also a Korean BBQ festival in L.A.
• ZK contributor Tammy makes Sesame Leaf Pesto for the cameras
  
• Three Sheets gets drunk in Seoul

• “Dragon Egg” bread in Insa-dong

October

• Gourmet Magazine makes Kimchi Quesadillas before going permanently off the presses
  
• Pierre Gagnaire comes to Seoul
  
• Japanese Braised Pork Belly–one of the most decadent dishes ever to exit our oven
  
• Worlds collide: Chef Ben cooks at Star Chef
  
• Got married
• The Miele Guide gives Korea a better rundown in 2009

November

• Cafe Sobahn — which may be going overseas as BBGO soon
• Travel blog Gadling comes to Seoul
  
• Chatjip debuts
• Fatman disappears, vows to return
  
• Hanspoon gourmet club
• 10 ways to survive a Korean winter

December

• Pizza School’s rib pizza
• ZenKimchi on American radio
• Contributor Shinshine debuts on ZenKimchi
  
• Christmas cakes 2009
• Chubbo debuts on ZenKimchi
• Tammy debuts on ZenKimchi
• ZenKimchi reviews 2009

Here’s to hoping that 2010 and this entire decade will be much better for you and for all.

Tags: 2009, All Korean Food