There is fire on the Hipster Seoul Tour This is Iron Man Hipster on the Hipster Seoul Tour This is an OG Korean Hipster Lots of Fun on the Hipster Seoul Tour As Seoul has become a more popular destination for tourists, the real Seoulites have had to move to adjust to rising rents and food prices. In the hip district of Mullae-dong, artists and machinists have taken residence to transform the area to a cool art village with urban art pieces, art studios, restaurants and cafes right next to machinists transforming steel into industrial works. It will show you the cool, undiscovered area of Seoul as we dine at famous restaurants and eateries. This is a 3 hour tour. Food and drinks are included.  Highlights  *See a hipster art village  *Try Great Korean Food: Korean Pancake, Fried Chicken, Barbecue and dessert  *Learn about Korean Culture through stories and fun drinking games Tour info Tours cost 80 USD a person (minimum 3) and starts from M...

Wow, another epic food week. Our food tours have been hopping nonstop and I have tried all sorts of great food and met great people from around the world. I feel quite blessed to be able to do a job as this and that so many are enthusiastic to come meet me and our team. In the last week, I have met people from Singapore, Australia, USA, and Canada that all came to Korea for the food.  Some of the cool things we saw were a cool plate that let the kimchi juice flow down and make a rose. Lots of great street food like the eggie bread thing. Is also got some Chinese moon cakes that had some beautiful writing on top. At Brew 3.14 (my pub) we made some tomato pie to the dismay of my chef. It's been a good week I must say. My chef also made some quiche at our pub and they have been a big hit.  Ok, back to work. Thanks for reading.  Dan

Written by Daniel Gray Picture from various sources. Click on the pictures to find the source Korean Food in Hawaii With all this talk about "globalizing Korean cuisine" I think that we need to give props to those that are already doing it their own way. These Korean chefs are striking out on their own and localizing the food or promoting dishes that the locals already find appealing. One of my guests called me the "Taste Whisperer" because before I start the tour I ask food related questions and try to find the taste that people are searching for. I do that or I try and pick dishes that are exciting and delicious for them. Now each guest is different and it is a kind of a game for me to try and pick dishes that will excite them. The last few months have been fun because we have been getting a number of Hawaiian visitors on our tours (I don't know who has been recommending us, but thank you!). These guests had tried Korean food- or they thought. They ev...

Here are two of our guests Dustin and Cindy on a food tour with Marcus. They really enjoyed themselves (according to their blog post). They were in Korea to adopt their baby boy. I hope they are all doing well. Here is the post: Since we’ve been through this before, Dustin and I knew that after meeting our child for the first time it would be nearly impossible to concentrate on anything.  Yesterday I just kept replaying our time with Malia in my head.  I looked at our photos about 1000 times.  Luckily, we had made plans ahead of time for last night.  So, after some shopping in the afternoon we went to find our guide for the food tour we had prearranged.  We went through a company called O’ngo Food Communications ( www.ongofood.com ).  Our guide’s name was Marcus.  We began the tour at 5 and got back to our hotel around 10.  It was absolutely phenomenal.  We learned more about Korean food culture and just Korean culture in general last ni...

O'ngo Food Communications is the official tour operator working with KOTRA for 2011 Seoul Food, convention being held at the KINTEX Exhibition center in Ilsan. This event will be held from Tuesday, April 26-29th. We have been working with KOTRA since January to help plan this event. The Seoul Food Exhibition is the oldest and one of the most popular food conventions for industry professionals of its kind in Asia. It has brought producers and buyers to Asia since 1983. O'ngo Food Communications will be offering our tours and cooking classes such as our popular Night Dining Tour to visitors to Korea so they can experience Korea through Cuisine. Find out more about our tours on our website at  http://www.ongofood.com/?page_id=4 . 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 Join the Seoul Eats Facebook Group Page to keep to date with the ...

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...

Seoul Fish Market I got a question the other day from a reader of Seoul Eats: "Dan, is there any place that I can get fresh salmon or salmon sashimi?" Yes! The Noryrangjin Fish Market. As you probably know my company does a regular fish market tour.  These days, I have noticed that more and more vendors have salmon for sale. They have it sliced up for sashimi with the vinegared red chili paste (cho-gochujang) and they even have fillets for sale. The vendors will debone the salmon for you- which is a plus, so all you have to do it go home and cook. There are smoked salmon in the cases (no...not really smoked, but chemically smoked) and you can get lots of salmon for cheap there. Not bad on a bagel with cream cheese, a squeeze of lemon, sliced white onion and capers...yum. The guy in the picture there is a hoot. He's a natural born salesman and he won't let you go until you buy something from him. He'll have salmon for sale- just ask him for a discount or ...

You'll also see me in the video. Here's Alice's write-up: Forgive me for the puntastic title. I couldn’t help myself. (To all my MAS students, I offer you my utmost apologies for breaking our cardinal rule). Garlic. Fire. A touch of chaos. The trifecta that best describes Korean BBQ, in a nutshell. We landed in the semi-arctic tundra of Seoul and headed straight to Myungdong, an insanely busy shopping area that makes Times Square seem like a nursing home. The ever so gracious Daniel Gray, a food blogger and Korean cuisine expert, whisked us through the endless crowd to a traditional Korean barbecue restaurant. Finally. This was the meal I was looking forward to. We were in my motherland, and we were about to chow down on some inherently social food. A perfect way to kick off the visit. .... One thing that I’d love to see at Pei Wei is a version of a Korean BBQ lettuce wrap. Chef Eric mentioned that they are toying with the idea, and I’m going to keep pushing for ...

You can subscribe to my youtube channer at Delawhere's Dan :  http://www.youtube.com/user/delawheresdan I am at Chugun Nakji in Seoul and we are eating live roasted octopus. It's over by Insadong down the alley across from McDonalds to the right. It's spicy and delicious! 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 Join the Seoul Eats Facebook Group Page to keep to date with the latest events.