Today, February 20th, O'ngo Food Communications  and Seoul Eats will be holding a culinary tour and cooking class. First, the group will tour a local market and learn about some of the special ingredients that can be found there. Next, the group will go to a cooking academy to learn to cook Korean food in English from a Korean chef. This class is designed for novice cooks, tourists, and those unfamiliar with Korean food. The class will be taught in a systematic way so a beginning cook can go home and make all the dishes by themselves in under 1 hour. Each person will make their own dishes. The menu for the class will be: Appetizer: Potato Pancake (Kamja Jeon) Salad (Banchan): Beansprouts and Spinach Entree: Spicy Ginger Chicken (Daktoritang) Dessert: Persimmon Icecream *rice and white kimchi will be provided* M-Cooking Studio by Samsung Station Unma Market Tour Chef Eddie Ahn A graduate of the Cordon Bleu in London, England. Eddie has worked in restaurants all over the wo...

Eddy Ahn: Chef extraordinaire, foodie, and friend invited myself, Joe MacPherson aka zenkimchi  and a couple other foodies to the Hanspoon opening party. You can find about more about Hanspoon at www.cyworld.com/FSCG  and on their Facebook page We started out with a few Makgeolli cocktails. This one was a Makgeolli Pina Colada. Makgeolli pairs very well with different juices and flavorings. My favorite of the evening was a Omija (5-flavor berry) Makgeolli. Here are breads made with Makgeolli yeast. I loved the presentation. Here are some Pork Kimchi Lollipops: samgyeopsal (Grilled Pork Belly) on forks topped with kimchi. It was a wonderful hors d'oeuvre to start the evening. Here is Glass Bean Jelly in rice paper wraps flavored with sesame oil and roasted seaweed. Tangpyeongchae is the regular Korean dish, but it is usually very difficult to eat because the noodles are very slippery to eat with chopsticks. Wrapping them in rice paper is a great way make this dish finger f...