Posts by: kcadmin
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Weekly K Roundup: Heejun Han, Korean BBQ chicken, and More
Amsterdam is now home to a North Korea-themed restaurant. There’s an nine course menu, featuring options like roasted oysters with smoked mackerel, and traditional Korean BBQ. [The Daily Meal] North Koreans who seek refuge in South Korea have found that with asylum comes a slew of other challeneges. [Business Week] Japan is getting involved in […]
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Guest Recipes: La Kocinera’s Napa Cabbage Salad with Oranges, Spicy Shrimp, and Rice Wine Vinaigrette
Katie Klein’s got another awesome recipe for us! In addition to making some delicious gimbap, she’s a whiz at Korean fusion. Check out her use of napa cabbage in a unique and creative new way. Napa Cabbage Salad with Oranges, Spicy Shrimp, and Rice Wine Vinaigrette We all know napa cabbage as the light, crunchy […]
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Guest Video: Sunny Sauce’s Bibim Naengmyun
We’ve got a new installment of Sunny Lee‘s beautiful and seriously appetizing food videos. This time? Bibim naengmyun, a classic Korean summertime favorite. Traditional naengmyun is a cold buckwheat noodle dish served in a refreshing radish kimchi broth. Additional ingredients include julienned cucumber, slices of Korean pear, a boiled egg, and slices of boiled beef. […]
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Weekly K Roundup: Kimchi Quesadillas, Korean Film Festival, and More
This intriguing article takes a look at the changing face of North Korea. [Korea Times] D.C.-based Freer Gallery’s Korean Film Festival starts this Sunday and runs through June 13. [Washington City Paper] Snag Chef Roy Choi’s incredibly addictive kimchi quesadilla recipe here. [Gourmet] Todd Park has been officially named the new U.S. Chief Technology Officer. […]
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Korean and Chinese Fusion Cuisine
Korean and Chinese food fusion has resulted in a few fantastically delicious dishes, most notably, jajangmyeon, jjamppong, and tangsuyuk. These popular favorites are ubiquitous in Korea and Korean communities in the US, with entire restaurants dedicated to serving just these one or more of these dishes. Lines are expected at some of the more popular […]
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Guest Recipes: La Kocinera’s Gimbap
We discovered Katie Klein (alias La Kocinera) through our Kimchi Chronicles Video Contest with her rendition of bulgogi tacos, and have been hooked on her blog ever since. A college student living in Texas, aside from exams and serious amounts of reading, Katie somehow finds time to whip up some amazing things in the kitchen. […]
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Weekly K-Roundup: Han Heejun, Food Trucks, and More
Food trucks only seem to rise in popularity, and this comprehensive article gives us some insight about what exactly it takes to get started in the meal mobile biz. [Wall Street Journal] Food shipments to North Korea are to be used as a critical leveraging tool to reopen talks regarding the country’s nuclear program. [Seattle […]
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Guest Blogger: Take Thou Food’s Doenjang Jjigae
Doenjang jjigae is a Korean kitchen staple that’s easy, delicious, and incredibly good for you. According to Sean of Take Thou Food, the secret to excellent jjigae is choosing a quality doenjang and anchovy stock. It may be a simple meal, but it’s one of the most flavorful of them all. Doenjang Jjigae Notice that […]
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Weekly K-Roundup: South Korea’s Economic Success, Chocolate, and More
To say that the fate of North Korean defectors is certainly bleak is quite the understatement. (Korea Times) Sisters Frances and Ginger Park opened DC’s first independent chocolate shop roughly 3 decades ago, and it’s still going strong. (Voice of America) There’s been increasing interest in South Korea as a model of economic success. (The […]
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Food: Korean Buddhist Temple Food
Temple cuisine is a unique dining experience in Korea. In accordance with Buddhist beliefs, temple food is primarily vegan, with a few guidelines. No artificial seasonings are included, and spices are also used very sparingly. There are 5 taboo vegetables: garlic, scallion, green onion, other onions, and wild rocambole, a type of Korean spring herb. […]
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Guest Recipes: Closet Cooking’s Dakkochi
During production of Kimchi Chronicles, street food made up a large percentage of our diets. A particular favorite was skewered food, all ease and convenience. Kevin Lynch of Closet Cooking shows us how to recreate dakkochi, Korean skewered chicken. His version incorporates his trusty bulgogi marinade recipe, and is served with a dipping sauce of […]
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Weekly K-Roundup: Kimchi Doughnuts, Kim Jong Il’s Birthday and More
Kim Jong Il’s 70th birthday, renamed ‘Day of the Shining Star’, was commemorated with a massive parade, complete with international skating show and thousands of “kimjongilia” begonias. (The Guardian) College dining halls, such as the one at Notre Dame, are picking up on the Korean food craze, and adding a few inspired selections to their […]
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5 Questions with Chang-Rae Lee
To say that Chang-Rae Lee is well known in the Korean American world is a serious understatement. The award winning author and Princeton professor has written 4 widely acclaimed books, and the most recent, The Surrendered, was a nominated finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In addition to being an exceptionally talented writer, […]
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13 Korean Food Trucks We Love
In the past year or so, Korean fusion has become an insanely popular food trend. It seems that virtually every week, there’s a new truck popping up, serving the latest iteration of kimchi tacos, bulgogi sliders, and other delightful fusion fare. At this rate, there could be a danger of overexposure looming on the horizon, […]
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Jean-Georges’ Simply Chicken at Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden has recently revamped its concessions stand, with the help of major chefs in New York City, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten. His new stand at the Garden is called Simply Chicken, and it’s serving a great selection of chicken-based dishes. From a chicken hot dog with kimchi relish and spicy mustard, to a grilled […]
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Weekly K-Roundup: Street artist David Choe, Big Bang World Tour, and More
Your dose of what’s going on in the world of Korean food and culture, right here. This week, Ahn Cheol-Seo, the founder of South Korea’s most successful software company, announced his plans to launch a nonprofit dedicated towards fighting rampant socioeconomic inequality in Korea. (New York Times) When Korean street artist David Choe painted murals […]
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Comfort Food: Budae Jjigae
Budae jjigae is an interesting dish that combines American and Korean flavors pretty deliciously. It’s a combination of an eclectic array of ingredients: hot dogs, canned ham, spam, gochujang, ramen noodles, kimchi, mushrooms, and other ingredients such as seasonal vegetables, rice cakes, and tofu. It’s a hodge podge of a dish that has been incorporated […]
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Weekly K-Roundup: Girls Generation on Letterman, Kimchi’s Health Benefits, and More
Your dose of whats going on in the world of Korean food and culture, right here. Opening a bakery is de rigeur in Korea, especially with the wealthy, which has provoked some furious debate over the nature of entrepreneurship in the country. (The Economist) Kimchi, along with other similar fermented foods such as sauerkraut, is […]
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Guest Video: Sunnysauce’s Japchae
Sunny Lee, winner of the Kimchi Chronicles Video Contest with her awesome manduguk video, unsurprisingly also has a few other choice food videos under her belt. Lee, who pursues photography and video in her downtime, also counts cooking as one of her main hobbies. We’re excited to share a recipe video she put together on […]
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Guest Recipes: Milk & Mode’s Miyuk Guk
This week we’re featuring Carol Han of Milk & Mode, who works in fashion as a creative consultant, and moonlights as a food/style blogger. Milk & Mode is equal parts delectable eats and enviable sartorial finds. Check out her take on Marja’s miyuk guk, an incredibly healthy and tasty seaweed soup that’s traditionally eaten on […]
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Kimchi Chronicles Contest: Winners!
Thank you to everybody who entered the Kimchi Chronicles Video Contest! It was a blast to watch all of your videos, we truly enjoyed each and every one of them. Unfortunately, there could only be 3 winners (and a few honorable mentions), and our team of judges, consisting of Marja Vongerichten, and individuals representing CJ […]
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Kimchi Chronicles Contest: All of the Videos!
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Kimchi Chronicles Video Contest! Here are all of the great submissions we received, in no particular order: thesquishymonster, pajeon thesquishymonster, yukgaejang thesquishymonster, grilled steak with kimchi butter junpower010, kimchi jjigae and japchae suburbanminimalist, tofu/ kimchi fried rice/broccoli roasted in heavy cream lakocinera, bulgogi […]
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Food: Crew Lunch at Hahoe Doenjang Maeul
When filming in Andong, we did some serious damage at Hahoe Doenjang Maeul, a family-run restaurant serving up some of the best bulgogi we’ve ever eaten. The secret? Homemade doenjang (fermented soybean paste) that the Chung family has been perfecting for over 19 generations. Along with Yeon-Hee Chung, the matriach of the family, we sat […]
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Around Seoul: Namsan Tower Locks
Locks are an international symbol of love. From the banks of the Arno in Florence to Namsan Tower (N Seoul Tower) in Seoul, it’s a widely recognized custom for couples to attach padlocks to public fixtures and throw away the keys to show their love for each other. At Namsan Tower, home to some of […]
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Guest Recipes: Beyond Kimchee’s Bindaetteok
We’re very excited to announce the launch of a new series on the Kimchi Chronicles blog! Each week, we’ll be featuring some great Korean recipes from writers all over the blogosphere. We’ll make it our goal to supply you with the internet’s freshest Korean dishes. For our inaugural post, Holly from Beyond Kimchee is sharing […]
