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Gamja jeon- Ah, glorious, glorious potatoes. They are a culturally important root crop with a hundred variations across the globe. In their cooked form, they are called poutines, fries, mashed, twice-baked – and many, many more. In the realm of Korean food, potatoes or the gamja are often used as secondary ingredients to many…
The Korean-Chinese fusion dish tangsuyuk is both a visually-attractive and tasty dish that is sure to excite food aesthetes. Tangsuyuk, translated as sweet and sour pork. The pork is first deep fried (twice, as with many Korean fried chicken dishes), with the thickened sweet and sour sauce poured over the fried goodness. The vegetables in…
Gwangjang Market Have you ever felt so dizzy and sick of wandering the busy malls and wanted to experience a whole new level of shopping? If you wanted to travel back to the time where the old, rich Korean culture is flourishing, Gwangjang Market is the perfect place for you to explore. It is one…
Budae Jjigae The names of Korean dishes are pretty straightforward: one-half of it would usually refer to the star ingredient and the other half on the type of dish (guk, jjigae, tang and bap, among many others) but budae-jjigae is different. Budae (부대) means ‘army base’ in Korean – one of the rare, if not…
The rich broth of this luxurious Korean food is what makes galbitang a winning dish for many. A bowl with kimchi and a steaming bowl of white rice are surefire dishes to win the heart. In Korea, this is usually reserved for special occasions as galbi is particularly expensive. Despite this, galbitang is a…
Even though you cannot find a Disney Land in Korea, still, you can enjoy amazing rides, and unforgettable experiences from this amusement park like you’ve never seen anywhere before. The largest amusement park in Korea, Everland, is home to many breath-taking rides, amusing attractions and of course a zoo and water park. It has so…
In Chuncheon where dakgalbi is a specialty, some of the restaurants serve it to you in a huge, round cast iron pan where the restaurant mistress then comes over to your table after the pan has been properly heated and mixes it all up together. Chuncheon is a quite little tourist town home to the…
Are you on for challenging hikes? The treasures and the views that Jeju Island’s Hallasan Mountain is definitely worth the sweat and long way. Hallasan Mountain is standing proud and tall at the very center of Jeju Island. Designated as a national park in 1970, there are 368 parasitic volcanoes called Oreums (peaks) around the…
The Garden of Morning Calm, the oldest private garden in Korea which derived its name from a great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore’s description for Korea as “Land of the Morning Calm” during the Joseon Dynasty, is one of the must-see places you need to check out, whether you love garden and flowers or just looking…
If the world regards kimchi as the representative Korean food, it is only natural that this highly-nutritious and super addictive fermented dish is made in to kimchi jjigae, a stew, which Koreans love. Kimchi, the fermented staple in a Korean cuisine spread, is considered as one of the healthiest food in the planet due…
The tangerine season is probably the best time of the year for orange lovers. In this season, everybody’s favorite oranges are never as delicate and as sweet. With that, Jeju is a perfect pick for this celebrated season. Let’s go through the orchards in search for the glorious fruit. This inexpensive yet very enjoyable activity…
The requirements for dongchimi is pretty straightforward: radish, korean pear, ginger, garlic cloves, red chili peppers, and green onion. The radish is primarily fermented in a water-based brine and this brine, in turn, is used as part of many of the known Korean dishes such as naengmyeon. Like many other Korean dishes, dongchimi was…
With many vegetables as supporting characters to bulgogi jeongol, the crowd-favorite pan-grilled beef transforms into a delightful dish that’s perfect to share with friends over lengthy conversations in the dead of winter. That’s quite an image, but bulgogi jeongol, translated to Korean barbeque in a hot pot recipe, is more of a poem-inducing creation than…
If you love the cold winter season so much and would prefer challenging winter treks, the best place to go to is Seorak National Park where snow would not melt even after a long time, keeping \ the mountain in its preserved, snowy state. That’s why it is called Seorak because it is derived from…
Kkakdugi |깍두기 Kimchi is a very well-known Korean side dish, and arguably the country’s representative food. But kimchi has many varieties and kkakdugi or cubed radish kimchi is one of those. In the same way, there are several different varieties of radish around the world and the Korean radish is characterized mainly by its rotund…
The yangnyeom Korean chicken is perhaps one of the most successful Korean food ever to invade the foreign market, at least in Southeast Asia. In malls across SEA, one would find Korean chicken stalls and restaurants marketing these unbelievably crispy chicken dishes coated with sticky, spicy sauce, together with other flavors of deep-fried chicken goodness. …
