Smitten with Strawberries and Dumplings

In college I was known for cooking, a lot. And more specifically, baking. It calmed my nerves, soothed my mind, and, half the time, let me play with dough. Photo by Anna Waigand This week, a past roommate of mine (who is getting married this weekend and I’m incredibly sad that I can’t be there [...]

Read Full Post »

Lettuce wrap salad with fish

Photo by Anna Waigand Inspired by a sunny street-side market and the serving style of galbi and samgyeopsal, I decided to make a salad eaten as a lettuce wrap. For those of you who haven’t had galbi in Korea, you grill meat at your table. The most common way to eat it is to make [...]

Read Full Post »

My new late-night health obsession

When out for a night on the town (or in our apartments) in college, the night would undoubtedly end in some greasy, salty, sugary and/or buttery scavenger hunt. Whether it was found in the oven, at 7-11 or, God forbid, the BK Lounge, it happened far more often than I would care to admit. I [...]

Read Full Post »

Hot spine for a cold night

Last night during a night out on the town for Andre’s birthday, we came across a new Korean dish: Pig Backbone Stew. Wanting some food, we had two rules: it needed to still be busy at 12:30AM (we didn’t want to walk in somewhere that was about to close) and it could not have chicken [...]

Read Full Post »

Incheon: A Lunar New Year’s gift

Lunar New Year’s must have given us good luck because Incheon was just the escape from Seoul and city-life that we were yearning. The first thing that you notice upon arriving at the beach is the swarms of ajummas crowding the street (there is one main drag by the beach) yelling, waving their arms, knocking [...]

Read Full Post »

Free advice for opening an Italian restaurant in Seoul

After another night out at a mediocre Italian restaurant in Seoul and after cooking up our own spaghetti at home, I’ve decided to offer this list of totally free advice for anyone planning on opening an Italian restaurant in Korea. 1. Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes, please buy something other than spaghetti. It [...]

Read Full Post »