A couple of weeks ago, I was invited by the folks of Total Art Festival to check out their place and their wares. One of the people who invited me was Sarah Lee of Seoul in the City–a blog you should put in your cue. TAF is not a festival as much as it is a hangout. It’s a venue for artists of all types, including...
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It’s now legend how Suji Park almost singlehandedly started the brunch trend in Seoul a few years ago with her popular brunch spot Suji’s. She’s the reigning “Queen of Brunch.” And she’s not let me live it down that my team put her restaurant at 2nd place in 10 Magazines best brunch stops in...
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It’ll be a while before I can blog about everything, and some places are just out of the scope of this site. So I’ll link to the Flickr sets I organized of the 2010 trip to New York. Remember that you can see all of the collections and sets on Flickr. I have all pictures divided by month, individual foods and...
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I’m not too subtle about my love for the W Hotel at Walker Hill. I used to make fun of bleeding-techno-edge-modern places-out-of-Sprockets places like this, but I have been hooked on it since my first experience there. It’s the first W Hotel built from the ground up as a W concept. Most others in the world are...
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Last year ZenKimchi had reported on the very first Korean BBQ Cook-Off event in Los Angeles, California. Specifically in L.A.’s Koreatown district. It was a packed and popular event with an estimated 10,000 attendees. Although Korean BBQ has been around in California for decades since the start of large scale Korean...
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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, which I say is...
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