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October 6, 2009

Fish and Chips

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Recently I cooked fish and chips for just over 100 kids. We, the 3 British native teachers at my school, were granted the extraordinary opportunity of organising an event day, which translates as a day off teaching formal classes.


After mere minutes of thinking, the idea came to us. Fish ‘n’ Chips. What could be more British? Well lots of things actually but we are going for the easily digested stereotypes and not the realities of what being British actually means, for the stereotypes are still closer to the realities than the perceived stereotypes.

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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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