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Kimchi is now an endangered species!  It’s a cabbage crisis! Well, not all kimchi.  Just one of the hundreds of distinguishable varieties out there.  But hey!  It’s the important one!  The most basic of all baechu kimchi is going the way of the dodo.

That’s the only explanation we can think of for this piece of reporting: Top seven gross Korean dishes selected by foreign staff at the Korea Herald All we can say is that intern reporter Ryu Jeong-hyun needs to learn what actually constitutes news.  Hint:  polling your foreign colleagues about what Korean foods wig them out [...]

How can something that is 80% a good idea end up going so very wrong? The Cafe formerly known as Sobahn has reopened as Bibigo*. Along with Zen Kimchi, Fatman was involved in some early test marketing for both Cafe Sobahn and the new Bibigo concept. A concept that was really, roundly panned for having [...]

Tipping the fat hat to Brian in Jeollanam-do, who has already put up excellent posts on the subject here and here, the JoongAng Daily reports that the Korean government has had to do a wee bit of backpedaling on the whole “drunken rice” thing, thanks to some Netizen tongue-lashing: The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry [...]

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It’s been a hard decision to make, but Fatman finally has to listen to our concience.  It’s been bothering us for a long time, but we’ve thought it over and are happy with our choice. FatManSeoul is going vegan! That’s right . . . there will be no more of this: or this: and certainly [...]

Been a long time, hasn’t it? You probably thought we were never coming back! But we’ve finally fixed our technical problems, and are back in action . . . there’s more delicious foodblogging to come!

A lot of you out there are probably getting a message about malware on this site, and we wanted to let you know we’re in the process of fixing the problem. Our apologies! We’ll have it up and running like normal as soon as we can.

Fatman doesn’t usually take other reviewers to task for their writing. After all, everyone has different taste preferences and perceptions. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. But seriously, Korea Herald . . . On the Border is authentic Mexican cuisine?!? Are you out of your ever-lovin’ mind??? It isn’t until halfway in the article [...]

There’s nothing that makes Fatman angrier than being promised a “Death Burger” that will light our mouth on fire as if we’d just french kissed Satan and finding out that at best all we’re going to get is a “Mild Indegestion Burger” that’s more like a peck from a petulant djinn. Andrew Salmon and Zen [...]