I hope we’re all enjoying the last days of summer on this gorgeous first morning of September. Weather folks are predicting rain in Seoul, but it’s a turquoise blue outside*. Oh jeez, am I seriously talking about the weather? Let’s get to some banchan before I start sharing ultrasound photos. Asian Feastival. New Yorkers. It’s [...]

I love adding shiny new toys to the blog, but I’m wary of toolbars. They can get clunky, intimidating and eventually useless if not designed well. I’ve experimented with ones like the BuddyPress one, and it just wasn’t working. So I’m playing with this Wibiya toolbar at the bottom, and I’m having fun with it. [...]

You lucky folks up north! I just got word that Suji’s has opened its first full deli at Ilsan’s Hyundai Department Store Kintex. One less reason to miss home. If you’re like me and live in a far off location from Ilsan, like Anyang, you can still make your own corned beef. Ilsan peeps, please [...]

Harper’s Bazaar (Korean edition) came out with its September edition in all its thick perfumed glory this week. They had a feature where they asked expat professionals in different fields about living in and visiting Seoul. ZenKimchi longtime friend Michael “Feetman Seoul” Hurt is in the article. I’m at the end of the piece. My [...]

Grace Young, known as a wok evangelist, has won many awards including the IACP Le Cordon Bleu International Cookbook Awards for her first book The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing and her second book The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and [...]