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 [...]

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NYT’s Korean restaurant review reviewed

Our friend Emmy (@emmysp) has sent us another great catch from the New York Times’ coverage of Korean food in the city of world cuisine. The review is of Manhatten’s Madangsui, which the article calls one of the finest places to eat Korean in the city. I immeditaly trusted the reviewer and the restaurant because [...]

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Jagalchi Fish Market Part 2: The Shrimp That Season Themselves

Photo by Anna Waigand. Coming from the Midwest, I didn’t always get the freshest of seafood (except for whitefish livers in Bayfield, Wisc.). But the ring of restaurants around the towering Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan offered many opportunities to get fresh seafood whether you wanted it caught that morning, raw or still alive. After [...]

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Internal Organs: It’s What’s for Dinner

Photo by Anna Waigand We were feeling good until we noticed that our meat had come in tubes. There are plenty of meats that come in cylinders, like the common sausage sizzlers in Korea, that are undaunting to eat. But if you just hollow out that cylinder, they become much more unusual. Photo by Anna [...]

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Drink, Drank, K-Drunk: Drinks in a bag, classy or crass?

Nothing says classy like a drink in a bag, but at Vinyl in Hongdae it’s the hot item on the menu. We first read about Vinyl on SeoulEats.com and decided to give it a go. Photo by Andre Francisco We stood in a long line of mostly foreigners all looking at the menu: a half [...]

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Drink, Drank, K-Drunk: Magic Soju

Photo by Anna Waigand Most foreigners don’t particularly like soju. Koreans drink it for any and all occasions and often when even people from Wisconsin would question whether it’s time for a drink. The national liquor just tastes like watered down vodka, but not watered down enough to not burn. So when we heard from [...]

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