Here is some dakgalbi I made at home recently. (Tamar1973 photo) Chuncheon dakkalbi, spicy grilled chicken a.k.a. dakgalbi, is one of my all-time favorite Korean foods. I enjoy reading blogs about day trips to Chuncheon, a “smaller” city in northeastern South Korea. I found the following blog post as I was surfing away a minor…
Korean-style pillows from Suwon
If your bedroom or living-room are begging for some Korean-style flair, check out VintageJamie at Etsy.com. Jamie Choi, aka VintageJamie, only uses natural fibers such as cotton and linen for all her pillowcases. Her home is also dog and cat free, so allergies should not be an issue. The Suwon, South Korea-based seamstress sells pillowcases…
Koreans invent “salt sensor”
Photo from ROK Rural Development Administration. The Chosun Ilbo reports that South Korea’s Rural Development Administration has invented a portable “salinity sensor” to test the salt concentration of soups and other liquid foods. After some additional testing in Korean hospitals, government officials hope to make it available to the general public within a year at…
Food, Dessert and Alcohol in South Korea
Food, Dessert and Alcohol in South Korea Some high points of the article: 1. Portion sizes are smaller in Korea than in the USA. (Actually most of the world keeps their portion sizes smaller than we do in the USA, but that’s a topic for another day.) This is because Koreans are heavily into portion…
Starburst Contradictions Kilt
What is a Scotch-Korean? Is that like a Soju-American?
Inspiration for the ‘Chuncheon Alfredo’ video
Tamar1973 photo My dual inspirations for my Alfredo sauce, as seen in the video “Chuncheon Alfredo” were “five-alarm minestrone” from Venenzia restaurant in the northeast South Korean city of Chuncheon and Cajun chicken fettuccine Alfredo by Johnny Garlic’s. (See my behind-the-scenes post on Chuncheon Alfredo.) Before Food Network came along, Guy Fieri was known in…
Chosun Ilbo: ‘It Bag’ Fever Gives Way to Individualism
The Chosun Ilbo newspaper posted an article on Aug. 21, informing us that the Korean penchant for using purses as status symbols has come to an end. Sales of luxury handbags have dropped by 50% since January 2009. Top designer Anya Hindmarch recently said the age of “it bag” is over and consumers have begun…
Seoul Eats: Talking about Seoul Food
Seoul Eats is one of my favorite ex-pat blogs out of South Korea. I’m not the only fan apparently, because it was featured in an article published in the Korea Times a few weeks ago. I discussed the article in this blog post and highlighted one of the Seoul Eats articles in my review. How…
Behind the ‘Innovations With Kimchi’ video
Tamar tries her hand at lip-synching I had thought of making this entire video as slide-show with voice-over, which is the format of two-thirds of the video. That would have been a quick way of introducing several meal ideas in which replacing sauerkraut with kimchi could create a healthy, tasty and unique meal. I designed…
Berry-infused shaved ice dessert a sweet treat in sweltering heat – INSIDE JoongAng Daily
I can’t imagine a bingsu without the sweetened red bean paste, which would be properly called patbingsu. I have eaten all sorts of Korean foods but the very idea of sweetened bean paste sets my teeth on edge and makes me cringe. As an American who loves her Tex-Mex re-fried beans, it’s anathema to me…