Apr 6, 2012

I love seafood and in Korea there’s plenty of variety throughout the year. Portions are huge with large tanks of live fish, shellfish, sea urchins and crabs on display on many streets outside the restaurants.  Cooking your own shellfish is certainly fun too. My local branch of the seafood franchise restaurant 바다사랑 (Sea Love) in Shinchon near...

Oct 10, 2011

By Tammy Quackerbush Napa Valley winery Chateau Montelena on Sept. 6 marked the beginning of the harvest by inviting San Francisco-based Korean food truck Seoul on Wheels to feed tourists and employees. For three midday hours, Julia Yoon and her Seoul on Wheels team served complimentary bulgogi (made with ribeye steak), chicken, spicy pork and tofu Korean...

Aug 27, 2011

  By Joshua Hall My father was in Seoul for two weeks. Many people’s first experience of Korean cuisine is Korean barbecue. However my father doesn’t eat red meat which gave us perfect excuse to show him some Korean cuisine less known to foreigners. We went to Nolboo Duck restaurant 놀부 유황 오리 in Jamsil (잠실). Reservations are essential...

Jul 20, 2011

By Tammy Quackenbush On July 10th, a Sonoma Winery and San Francisco based Korean restaurant held a wine and food pairing event as part of the Outside Lands Festival. The Outside Lands Festival is a three-day festival of music, food and wine held in Golden GatePark, San Francisco. As part of the lead up to the event on Aug. 12-14, the organizers and Chow online...

May 27, 2011

매치를 한국음식과  멍게 비빔밥 이탈리아와인 바르베라  다스띠 On a recent trip to Tongyeong and Geoje-do we took several bottles of wine to pair with local dishes. Geoje Island (거 제도) is famous for it’s seafood and one specialty is myeonggae (sea squirt) bibimbap. We had a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc first as it was a hot...

Feb 3, 2011

한국음식 돼지고기 소금구이,  갈 매기살 매치 이탈리아 화이트 와인 트레비아노 세 미용 섞다 2007 Guisti E Zanza Nemorino Bianco Toscana IGT (Trebbiano / Semillion) I finally got to try this famous Galmaeggisal restaurant in Mapo. Joe from ZenKimchi and I went along with a journalist from an Australian food magazine. The food...