In celebration of Black Day, I joined my friend Diana for Jajamyeong. We washed this down with black bean tea and shared a chocolate cake for dessert.
For those that don’t know, Black Day is the holiday for singles in Korea. It is celebrated on April 14th by wearing all black and eating black noodles and other black foods. I guess it’s supposed to reflect the doom and gloom of being single in Korea.
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Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.
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I had jajangmyun goppeki (double portion) on that day… ㅠ_ㅠ Hi Diana~ I was surprised to see u on here… small world…