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Video: Roy Choi of Kogi Taco Truck

Filmmaker Fridolin Schoepper created a video about Roy Choi, the much celebrated chef who started the whole Korean taco and food truck craze. Chef Choi will be part of The Avant/Garde Diaries, a show curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys.

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Trendwatch: Self-serve Beer Bars

Apr 06, 12 Trendwatch: Self-serve Beer Bars

Posted by in Beverages, Featured, Food Trend, Newsletter

I’d been hearing about self-serve beer bars not only opening but exploding in Seoul. These types of bars exist in other cities around the world, but it’s a very new concept in Korea, and it’s catching on quickly. Import beers are becoming popular with young Korean adults. FTAs with countries have been coming...

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Re: Michael Hurt

Mar 20, 12 Re: Michael Hurt

Posted by in Who's Who

I’m posting about this because he said it was cool. It hasn’t been announced much publicly on the K-blogosphere. Stalwart of the Korean bloggers, one of my mentors, and one of the pioneers of Korean street fashion photography, Michael Hurt (Yahae, Feetman Seoul, Metropolitician), suffered a stroke earlier this month...

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Yonhap Feature: Visitors learn to make their own Korean dishes

Here is my latest feature article for Yonhap News.  I started working on this in Seoul then finished it when I came back to New York.  I am introducing a few different options for people who are considering a Korean cooking class in Seoul.  The table below didn’t make it to the article, but I thought some of you might find...

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Restaurant: Korean BBQ Plus!, Concord, Calif.

Feb 23, 12 Restaurant: Korean BBQ Plus!, Concord, Calif.

Posted by in Featured, Globalization, Restaurants

Serendipity brought me to this restaurant on the east side of the San Francisco Bay area. I had an appointment with friends in Concord early one February morning. By noon, our meeting was over, and I was hungry. Rather than waiting until I returned to more familiar territory to eat, I followed my instinct — and my insistent...

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