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 [...]

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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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A strange sighting turns into romanesco bacon soup

Photo by Anna Waigand So there I was, passing through the produce section of my Home Plus when this bizarre vegetable caught me eye. It was a mass of little cones of green spirals that rose up to form a pyramid, and it was named after a famous journalism blogger so I took a closer [...]

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One pot prawn head soup

Photo by Anna Waigand Buying whole seafood at the fish market is great, but it leaves you with a lot of strange odds and ends that as a beginning chef I’m tempted to just throw out. But whenever I’ve asked anyone or searched online for what to do with the leftovers the answer is always [...]

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Soup or Sauce?: Chinese food inspires a foreigner nothing fight

Photo by Anna Waigand The two bowls arrived together with two large spoons. Large enough that I would call them soup spoons, but this is where Anna would begin to disagree. We were at a Chinese restaurant on the top floor of an all electronics mall near the famous Yongson Electronics Market. We’d spent the [...]

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Korean Customs: The Soup Place

This is going to be the start of a new series on Seoulful Adventures. Traveling to any country involves learning the customs of the culture, and invariably many of those customs will revolve around food. Koreans have many customs and traditions when it comes to food and drink, and we are slowly learning them. Some [...]

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