Something Korean

With buddhist monks and other foodies ceaselessly at work spreading their recipes and cuisine philosophies by teaching and writing, no wonder more Korean foodies are dashing to uncover the secret of the temple food formula. As a tradition, the buddhist monks have had their meals that way and stayed healthy without any bodily trouble. Sticky rice, nutritious fruit, herbs and grains, use of scarce..

I am always partial to the soft cushion in the mouth that is produced with those little gooey “pearl”s at Amavin Bubble Tea. I'm talking about a small wayside parlour and the facade is washed sky blue, where the little pearls are busy being swallowed in line along the thick straw, down- down touching the inside of your mouth and stomach. Inside the parlour it’s rather dim but take-away seems to ..

This is a place where (costing around 10000KRW) a single plate of broiled pork with salt, Sogeum-gui, are shoulder-to-shoulder with local and global food and exotic snacks in the 1st basement of Galleria Cheonan. Boiled rice coupled with the chewy beef (and bean sprouts) keep our inside from food going watery. Other types of cooked meat cost a similar amount of KRW; and speaking from my experien..

This gym, named Curves Sanghyeon Club, is on the fifth floor of Wonhee Castle Plaza Building B in Sujigu, Yong-in. By nature it’s a sunny place, incorporating the LED-lit circuit far from windows on the far side of the door. At the entrance you encounter the small, open office with a tiny desktop computer for employees, console and an additional monitor to gauge the day’s entrance. You go straig..

All sorts of bunsik (Korean snack) are there in the roadside eatery Uri Halmae Tteokbokki in Sanghyeon-dong and anyone Korean and non-Korean should enter here to sample the generous menu of fried food and tteokbokki. There is Rose Tteokbokki (yes, part italian) and Garaetteok (which is bar rice cake) Tteokbokki. The latter is the most popular but the rose is smooth on the tongue, not too hot and..

I regularly visit my favourite reading room to study and people there sometimes very kindly offer those yellow cans of sikhye. Any sikhye signs are about giving you freedom in the mouth and the throat. It is not alcoholic and it is more savoury and lighter than any other beverage. I will provide its recipe, which is historical and quite interesting, later.

Shall we deign to devour the endearing baekban in Eunhye noodles? Located in Baebang on the outskirts of Asan in Chungcheongnam-do, they serve up delightful rice and jjigae (call it baekban) with next-to-homemade seasoned radish(mu-mallaeng-i). Also for Korean foodies, kaennip, the quintessential and all-knowing sesame leaf Korean side dish will definitely more than tickle your taste bud. Seatin..

A linguistic perspective of pansori-madang of sugungga below, just one sentence modified! 들어가며 소리꾼과 장구 치는 고수가 관객과 함께 세 방향에서 몇 시간 동안 아니리(소리)와 너름새(몸짓), 발림(몸짓연기), 추임새를 주고받으면서 흥겹게 ‘썰’을 푸는 구비문학 판소리는 2003년에 유네스코 세계 문화 유산으로 지정된 한국 중요 무형문화재 5호이다. 긴 토론 끝에 영문으로는 Pansori Epic Chant란 이름으로 정해졌다고 한다. 글쓴이의 개인적인 의견으로는 1인극 오페라(monodramatic opera)라고 이름짓는 게 낫겠다 생각한다. 유네스코 무형문화유산으로 정해진 판소리라는 이름씨의 뜻은 ‘여러 사람의 모인 장소’라..

Beginning Cross the dignity of wearing silky, black horsehair fresh from the Korean pastures with the sophistication of Western top hats, and you get this brimful of Eastern elegance. History. Going back in time around 3000 BC the first official records of hats appear, but 3250 BC ago a Bronze Age man’s body with his bearskin cap was found in a mountain in Europe. Jumping forward about 100 years..

On a nice day this week my Mum and I made a visit to Yangpyeong Art Museum. Towering over us was a rather large mass of dark red and grey. When we were inside, there were 4 exhibitions going on at once, two solo on the ground floor and two group. Going up the stairs we directly faced the whitewashed rooms of scattered artworks authored by women artists and likewise, based in Yangpyeong, mostly s..