About

Thanks for stopping by to read Seoulful Adventures. This blog was about our year in Korea teaching English to adorable Korean kids. We lived in Korea from September 2009 to September 2010. While we weren’t teaching we were eating everything we could find and trying to figure out how to keep experimenting at home despite our tiny kitchen. We’ve finished our year in Korea, but we are continuing to travel, cook and write. Our new adventures, and selected archives from this site, are now at Just A Rough Draft. So go over there to see what we are up to now.

Here are some of our favorite posts. You can see a video from one of our fun adventures at the cafe where 30 dogs run free, and all over the tables, or you can watch the world’s most disgusting fish be cleaned at Korea’s largest fish market. If you’re in the mood for some food you can check out our favorite recipes for home-cured bacon with cinnamon, salt and pepper calamari, or our hot and cold Korean salad. And if you’re in the mood for some adventures, you can check out our culinary wins and losses in Tongyeong and Incheon or our near-disaster attempt to bake without an oven.

Andre Francisco

Photo by Anna Waigand

I’ll be bringing you reviews of the greasier side of Korean food – deep fried everything, stand up stalls, and anything resembling bacon. I’m a Minnesota native that wishes I was from a state with a better food reputation than lutefisk and tater-tot hot dish. But I’m proud of my heritage of wild rice and the Minnesota State Fair where you can get anything you want on a stick. I recently graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, so I’ll be doing some more traditional journalism pieces about the world of Seoul. I’ve done some traveling, but this is my first time to Asia. I don’t usually cook from a recipe, but my promise to you readers is to shape my tendency to overcomplicate meals into something simple enough for you to enjoy.

You can also follow me on Twitter at AndreFrancisco or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Anna Waigand

Photo by Andre Francisco

If Andre is all about the greasier side of Korean food, I am everything but. I want to experience Korean food in all it’s glories as well as see how to make good, old American classics from anything in a Korean grocery store. My goal for the year: how do you bake without an oven, flour or any pantry staples?

I recently graduated with a degree in Theatre from Northwestern University. I have a strong interest in the arts, including photography, so you’ll be seeing Seoul mainly through the lens of my beloved Nikon D90. My mother has been a travel writer her entire life, so I hope to follow in her footsteps and make you, too, want to travel to Seoul or at least catch a delicious glimpse into what our life here is like.

You can follow me on Twitter at messieme and see my pictures on Flickr.

And make sure to follow the blog on Twitter at foodandseoul. If you have any questions or comments leave them below or send us an email at seoulfuladventures [at] gmail [dot] com.