Cooking Classes at O'ngo Culinary School Saturday, April 2nd we’ll be having our banchan with doenjang chiggae cooking class at 11am at O’ngo Culinary School located in Insadong. This class is specially priced at 55,000 won per person. If you purchase 3 classes, it only costs 45,000 won per class (135,000 won). Classes carry over to next month. Our next month’s offerings are: April 2nd: Banchan (Korean Side Dish) Class with Doenjang Chiggae (Soybean Stew) April 9th: Mandu and Bibimguksu April 16th: Sundubu and Seafood Pancake  You can find us by going out Anguk Station (Subway Line 3) Exit 4 and walk 2 blocks and make a left after Young’s Music and Pizza Haven. We are on the 3rd Floor in the building across from Crown Hotel. You can sign-up by contacting us at ongofood@ongofood.com O’ngo Food Communications www.ongofood.com Jongno-gu, Nagwon-dong 55-1 Nagwon-dong Zip 110-709 02-3446-1607 Korean Bank Transfer Information: If you would like to send payment in ...

O'ngo Fish Market Tours O'ngo Culinary School O'ngo Night Dining Tours About 1 year ago today, Jia Choi and I decided to start to do cooking classes and food tours in Seoul. It seemed to be the natural trajectory in the line of work that we were doing. Jia is a professor of food culture and I was a food writer. When we started we had no idea of what we were doing and where it would go, but we believed in the cuisine of Korea and that it would be a draw for tourists. One year later, we are still around and we are doing well. We moved from renting out small cooking studios, to changing our office into one and finally moving into O'ngo Culinary School in Insadong. We are amazed that so many people have come to us to learn about Korean culture and cuisine. Many people have been writing reviews about our classes and tours on Tripadvisor.   To date there are 22 reviews and almost all of them are positive (Yay!). If you have been to a cooking class or tour, pleas...

O'ngo Culinary School In January and February, O'ngo Culinary School will be offering Saturday Cooking Classes for those hoping to learn Korean cuisine and meet other foodies. You'll learn Korean favorites such as Daktoritang, Bibimbap, Japchae, and Sundubu throughout the 2 month course. You'll get a deep understanding of the culture and the techniques of Korean cuisine from our award winning chefs. First, you'll see a demonstration from the chef, then you'll have a chance to make your own, and then you'll get to eat what you made. January 22nd: Dolsot Bibimbap and Bean Sprout Soup January 29th: Korean New Year's Class: Mandu Rice Cake Soup February 5th: OFF HOLIDAY February 12th: Sundubu and Seafood Pancake February 19th: Japchae and Spicy Pork The classes will be offered in English at 11am and at 3pm. You can sign up for 1 or all of the classes. There are 3 classes a month  and classes cost 55,000 a person per session, but if you sign up ...

Garlic Chive Butter with Red Chili Flakes In preparation for our butter cooking class next Saturday, we have been working on our butter recipes for the class. It's amazing that with just some cream you can turn it into luscious, creamy butter. Oh, and you also have leftover buttermilk so you can make biscuits and breads and pancakes. I'm really excited out our class next week. If you would like to join us, please send me an e-mail. The information on the class is here: http://www.seouleats.com/2010/09/monthly-cooking-classes-at-ongo.html Homemade Butter and Buttermilk

Back to Basics Cooking Class: Milk Dear Seoul Eats Readers, Our cooking studio in Insadong has been open almost 2 months now and it's going well. We've had guests from the Americas, Canada, Finland, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, etc. learn from our chef Hoya. Our Night Dining Tours and our Korea Taste and Tea Tours are also doing well. One thing that our guests have asked for were monthly cooking classes for people living or studying in Seoul. People have also been asking about healthy food classes and making food from scratch. For the month of October we are offering special classes for expats in Seoul. For the month of October, we are offering our "Back to Basics" cooking program. The theme for this month is Milk . We are offering a Wedneday Morning 10am and a Saturday Morning at 10 am program. You can sign up for classes a la carte or all four for a special price. Session 1 on Wednesday, October 6th or Saturday 9th: Butter Our chefs will t...

Dear Seoul Eats Readers, Thank you for messaging me and telling me that I need to do a meet-up soon. I'm sorry, but a lot of my time and energy has been going towards the cooking classes and food tours that I have been running on behalf of my company, O'ngo Food Communications. But, I can't forget about all the people who have read and have been supporting what I've been doing. Thank you so much for reading and getting involved. I'm so happy that there is such an epicurious community in Seoul. Our last couple cooking classes for pasta making and for temple cuisine were a big hit and we will be doing them again. Also, in June we'll have a brunch class, a healthy foods class, a beer making class, and a wine tasting class. I'll let you know more details soon. Here is our schedule for our cooking classes and tours can be found on our calendar page here. We have to have a minimum of 4 people to do our classes. Menus can be changed to fit what you would ...

Please stay tuned for the next batch of cooking classes, which will be held in our newly renovated cooking studio in Gangnam!

Hi Dan, Was looking around the net for information on Seoul eats and dos and found yours for my coming trip, 1st trip. It was very informative. Thanks for all the suggestions and reviews. Should be going to a few of your recommended restaurants. Also saw this little post on 1-day cooking classes conducted in English. Think it was a schedule of cooking classes through to the end of November conducted by Institute of Korean Royal Cuisine, unfortunately i'll only be arriving on the day the last class starts. Went on to the Institute's site but was all in Korean and my random clicks didnt bring up any course information. Wonder if you know of any other Korean food cooking classes also conducted in English that would be conducted in the week starting 30 November? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Have a happy gastronomic weekend! Regards, Gwen  Dear Gwen, Thank you so much for your comments. I'm sure that you can sign up for classes on that day. ...

You might have missed this on their website because it is a popup window and I disabled popups on my web browser. I'm going tomorrow. Anyone want to join me? Tomorrow they are making Bossam! Institute of Korea Royal Cusine 34, Wonseo-dong, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, South Korea 02) 3673-1122∼3 02) 3673-2647 food@food.co.kr