Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts

Friday, November 14, 2008

Korea











In a world where you can shop all nite and the exchange rate is really good, Korea is my new favorite place in Asia. Don't get me wrong, the Japanese are good at snacks and the chinese have good dim sum, but nothing sat better in my stomach than a bowl of rice and kimchee and ginseng honey tea.

Plus where else will you find an apple carved like a cup, filled with fresh apple juice and sochu?

I learned that Duk Bok Gi, rice cakes, were my favorite snacks. And that only really fresh kim chee is served with Mandoo. I also sadly learned that homemade kimchee is a dying art because it costs too much to make it at home.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Le Grand Chef


On Korean Air I got to watch this crazy Korean movie called "Le Grand Chef". It was the most dramatic cooking Iron Chef like drama movie I think I had ever seen. Two men who are grandchildren of the apprentices to the Royal Chef of the last King of Korea are competing for the Royal Chef's knife. But of course wierd truths are revealed and lives get changed!

The food moments though make this movie totally worth watching.

Check out the trailer or beginning or whatever this is....