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August 15, 2009

Okinawa eats

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Written by: Daniel
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A small selection of pictures from a recent trip to Okinawa. The pictures fall into 3 categories. The first is called “Traditional Okinawan food”, not too many of these. The second is called “A little bit silly”, like the snoopy one and the third is called “We have them in Korea!”

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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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2 Comments


  1. Daniel Gray

    wow! thanks for the post rob. it looks great. hey are you planning on anything for October's Groove?



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