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August 14, 2009
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Jung shikdang: Chicken Breast wrapped in chicken skin and served with a kimchi and nori sauce.

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Jung Shik Dang
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Reservations Recommended. They speak English.

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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.
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  1. Paula

    only Koreans would think of a way to make high-end cuisine look like SPAM… ^^

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    August 14, 2009 at 8:28 pm



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