The 7th International Seoul Rice Cake Festival

I want to thank everyone for participating in the Rice Cake festival held by the Institute of Tradtional Korean Foods on May 8th and 9th. I think it was an overwhelming success and the festival really showed Korea in a positive light all over the world. I wanted to post some media that I found on the net.

First of all, I would like to thank Robyn Lee of Seriouseats.com for her coverage and for Rachel Yang for coming to the event. Secondly, I would like to thank Dr. Yoon Sook-ja, Hyang Soo-Hyang, and all the people at the Institute for Traditional Korean Food for holding the event. Also, I would like to thank Terry Rah for her help. I couldn’t have done this without her. And I can’t forget about Maureen O’Crowley, Chef Paul Schenks, and Chef Ciarian Hickey for their hospitality.

Again, I would like to thank everyone that participated in the event. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Here are some links

Seriouseats: http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/05/photos-from-the-7th-international-tteok-fair-seoul-korea.html

http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/05/photo-of-the-day-penguin-tteok.html

Robyn’s Photostream of the Tteok Fair http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/sets/72157617977333801/

Robyn’s article thanking Seoul and all the players involved:

http://www.roboppy.net/food/2009/05/thank-you-seoulites.html

The Korea Time’s Article on Rachel Yang:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/05/178_44859.html

The Joong Ahn Daily’s Article on the Fair:

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2904663

Dan

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Daniel

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.