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March 10, 2010

The Chocopie Slam: Or How to Drink your Coffee through a Korean Chocopie

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Written by: Daniel
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Instead of the Tim Tam Slam, I’m going to do the Chocopie Slam. I take a Korean Chocopie (a chocolate moon pie that has marshmallow inside) and I’m going to bite off the ends and suck coffee though the cake part and then eat the how thing. It’s like an instant wake up because you’ll have sugar and caffeine jolting through your system! HAHAHA



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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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