This is our old chef Shawn making mandu (dumplings) at O'ngo Culinary School and telling us about Korean girls. He's a good guy and good chef. He cooks over at 50 in Apgujeong. www.ongofood.com Subscribe to my youTube Channel to see more of my video projects.  http://www.youtube.com/user/delawheresdan Come take a cooking class or take a Culinary Tour in Seoul! http://www.ongofood.com Pictures are taken either with my Panasonic DMC-G2 Camera with 20mm Lens or with my iPhone 4G

Chef Shawn as a Cabbage Patch Kid

O'ngo Food Communications has been doing cooking classes for tourists and expats in Korea since February and they have been going pretty well. To date, we have taught over 300 people how to cook Korean food. When we started our cooking classes, we rented out cooking studios. Later, we converted our office into a cooking school. At the beginning of July, Korea House was kind enough to loan us their cooking studio to hold our cooking class. Now next month we'll be moving into our new 50 person cooking studio in Insadong- it is being built right now. It's been quite a rollercoaster ride so far, but I feel we have a great team assembled and a great cooking program. These are some shots from the last cooking class. The menu for that class was Dakgalbi, Cucumber Kimchi, and Seafood pancake. We had a full class of 24 people. Chef Shawn did a great job of teaching the class. His calm and humorous attitude helped everyone get along in the class. All the ingredients and the class...

Chef Shawn has been testing tteokbokki at the O'ngo Cooking Studio in preparation for our class tomorrow. The first version is the traditional soupy version topped with some sesame leaves. He added pineapple for sweetness. The second version is more of a crispy variation with red chili paste. I liked the second one more. Tteokbokki: Rice Cakes in Red Chili Paste Sauce Topped with Sesame Leaves and has Pineapple Crispy Rice Cake with Red Pepper Flakes and Sesame Seeds They are like Tatertots, only better.

Bossam Bossam, Spicy Turnip Kimchi, and White Kimchi Bossam up close The Menu is: Bossam, Turnip Kimchi, White Clam Sundubu Soup. Dessert will be provided The class will be held in Haebangchon (near Noksopyeong Station Exit 2)on Saturday, April 17th at 3:30pm. You will first go to a traditional market with Shawn to buy the ingredients. Then you will go to a nearby cooking studio to watch him give a demonstration on how to make the different dishes. You will be able to help participate in making some of the dishes, but it is mainly a demonstration. You will get a recipe book on how to make your own dishes at home. The class will be taught in English and dinner will be provided.The class will last 2 and a half hours and there are only 8 spots available for the class. The class will cost 40,000 per person and that includes the class, recipes, dinner, and dessert. Contact Dan Gray at seouleats at gmail dot com for more information. You can confirm your spot by sending payment...

You can sign up to take a cooking class with Chef Shawn next Saturday April 10. First, you'll go to a market to buy the ingredients and then you'll go to a cooking studio to see him make the dishes and then eat. The menu is: Andong Jjimddak (Spicy Soy Sauce Chicken) Gyeran Mari (Rolled Omelet Side Dish) Geotjeori (Fresh Kimchi Salad) Dessert: TBA We will meet at Noksopyeong Station Exit 2 at 11am. The cost for this is 40,000 won and you'll get a recipe book and lunch. You'll have a chance to help make some of the dishes as well. If you are interested, please e-mail me at seouleats (at) gmail (dot) com . There is a limit of 8 people for the class. The class and lunch will last between 2-3 hours. Dan

Since I have met Shawn, we have been very close. It must have something to do with his creativity and love of food. Recently, we've been working on developing cooking classes for people unfamiliar with Korean foods. To start, we did a series of videos with Shawn adding a twist to popular Korean dishes. In the video he made Kimchi Dubu Lasagna and Sundubu Flan. Here's Chef Shawn As you can see he has cut the tofu really thin and then put minced meat flavored with Kimchi in between. Oh, just because I'm excited to use this new Blogger function, click the link below to see more pictures of Shawn's Food and information on how you can take a cooking lesson with him.