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You’ve been told it’s difficult, that it takes years of practice to make perfect, that only select humans known as Ajumas can achieve the zen-like state of flow and oneness with the universe that leads to its creation. LIES! Anyone can make kimchi – it’s shockingly easy. And you don’t have to make it in [...]

Stafford has done it again.  Go check out his recipe for roasted duck sandwich.

Yukhoi is where it’s at!  Don’t let its reputation as an iffy selection at the wedding hall buffet line stop you from enjoying its sweet pleasures. There’s few foods in the world that feel as luxurious as an elegant serving of Korean-style steak tartare, and even fewer that are as easy to make.  But while [...]

Figs are one of the great treats of fall. These inflorescence are actually not fruit at all, but collections of tiny inward-growing flowers that form the “fruit”.  This shows up oddly in the etymology of the Korean name: 무화과 means “no flower fruit”. There are flowers that contain fruit, but we can’t see them until [...]

Hardtack (also known as pilot bread, pilot crackers, ships biscuits, sea bread, and sometimes less nicely as molar breakers, tooth dullers, sheet iron, or dog biscuits) is one of the most notorious foods in history. Because the ingredients are so basic and it lasts so long, it has been a food of choice (well, or [...]

There was a recent article in the Korea Times about vegetarian restaurants in Seoul, and they’ve come up with some solid suggestions like Sosim at the Anguk intersection north of Insadong. It’s great to see some coverage of smaller or lesser known restaurants (they haven’t included the big bad daddy of them all, the Buddhist [...]

Do you have a traditional Turkish coffee pot? 혹시 터키 커피를 끓이는 전통 주전자를 가지고 있나요? Traditionally, the coffee pot is copper, narrow necked, and has a long wooden handle. You can buy them online, or rummage around near 동대문 and see if you can rustle up something. Fatman will revel to you a secret [...]