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Consider the fattiest cuts of bacon, three, no, four times thicker than normal, frying on a pan roasting with onions and garlic. As they cook, fat oozes out of the meat, self-greasing the pan. The smell of pork wafts through the air into your clothes and hair. You flip and cut these lardy strips of meat [ READ MORE ]
Foreigners living in Korea are divided between those who like kimchi and those who don’t. But nobody can claim to be a hater until they’ve tried it with bossam – tender slices of pork, often quite fatty, served with the sweetest, most delicious kimchi you could imagine. Well, perhaps you can’t imagine it. Kimchi on it’s own [ READ MORE ]
My travels across South America in 2007 and 2008 introduced me to some amusing store names and products. Fortunately, Korea has been willing to participate in the mayhem. This is a range of snack on sale in Lotte Supercenter – the Coca-Cola of grocery stores in Korea. The problem is the Dick Stick is disgusting, and [ READ MORE ]
So, what do you like to do when pay day comes around? Go shopping? See a movie? Buy something for your boyfriend or girlfriend? Drink away the remainder of your liver? Nothing? I once knew a guy who treated himself to a prostitute when his monthly cheque arrived on his desk. Compare that to what we [ READ MORE ]
Since the glorious emergence of Paul the Octopus, the World Cup soothsayer who successfully predicted all of Germany’s matches as well as the World Cup final, people around the world are beginning to realize what I have contended for years – that octopuses are intelligent creatures. In fact, the Discovery Channel once did a documentary about [ READ MORE ]
Korean dining is about as laid back as you can get. On a first date it would not be uncommon for your date to slurp up his or her noodles. Yelling across the restaurant to get the attention of a waiter or waitress is expected. Your cups and spoons don’t have to be in a specific [ READ MORE ]
Shabu-Shabu! Sounds more like an informal telephone greeting in the Middle East than a delicious hot pot meal in Korea. But then, this is not a Korean dish. It’s the Korean variation of the Japanese variation of the Chinese hot pot, which is believed by some to be the variation of a dish which originated [ READ MORE ]
There are two important things to notice when it comes to Korean beers. The first is they all (well, the Big 4 anyway) have exceptionally rubbish names, and, secondly, they all (well, the Big 4 anyway) are exceptionally rubbish (almost). When you think of the great Far Eastern beers, you are normally won over by their [ READ MORE ]
Last week, this website’s co-founder (I’d like to emphasize the word ‘co’ – for someone has been forgetting this of late) nailed his colours to the mast with a mouth-watering article about Galbi Jjim. To steal a quotation from the entry, Stu pleads that “if you’re coming to Korea, or if you’re here and haven’t [ READ MORE ]
Note: this post has been updated, as I erroneously reported one of the snacks in question to be fish eyes, not squid eyes. Please pardon the error. Forget chips and dip or pretzels — in Korea they have squid eyes and larva for barroom snacks. Here, every bar — whether it be a business lounge, or [ READ MORE ]