Are you a buyer coming to Korea on November 7th to the 11th for Korea Food Expo? If you are we have a special Night Dining, Business Networking Dinner for guests, courtesy of the Korea Food Expo. The cost of the tour is free and you'll be able to able to enjoy a wide variety of Korean foods and Korean alcohol while meeting other buyers and exhibitors at the Korea Food Expo. Instead of going to a stuffy, business dinner this is a way to meet people in person in a fun and exciting environment. See the sign-up sheet below. For an overview of our night dining tour, you can see the video (note: the COEX tour is a little different because of the location). Daniel Gray O'ngo Food Communications View thi...

Here is an e-mail I got from a guest that was in Korea to adopt a Korean baby. They had joined our food tour and they were really wonderful guests. It was great meeting you all! Dan Hi Dan, Stacie, Evan and I (along with new baby Leah) are back in U.S.  We wanted to say again what a great time we had on the night time foodie tour. Thanks, Mark P.S. Attached is a pic of Evan on the tour as well as a pic with us and Leah.

A guest of ours on our Night Dining Tour posted a video! Pretty cool^^ Check it out here 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.

I was asked by KTO to write a few articles on the topic of Korean food for their website, Koreataste.org . Here is my latest on the culinary tour for the LSG Sky Chefs. I was lucky enough to be invited to the culinary tour for the  LSG Sky Chefs . These chefs were to getting a 36 hour crash course on Korean cuisine by attending cooking classes and then travel to a fish market, a kimchi factory, a soy bean farm, and to do a restaurant tour. These chefs manage the food for most of the major Airlines such as: Lufthansa, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Asiana Airlines, Swiss International Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Korean Air, and Aeroflot. The company manages about 30% of the worldwide airline catering market. This is a true boon for Korean food since these chefs handle the meals of millions of people flying around the world. 15 chefs from the company that handle different aspects of Korean food such as menu planning, frozen foods, localization, and product...

These are the fine doctors from Belgium that were brought over by LEO Pharm. Thank you so much for joining us on our night dining tours. We went to many different Korean restaurants while eating and drinking the night away. If you are in Korea and are interested in our tours, here is our website. www.ongofood.com

When Washington Post Reporter Michael Alison Chandler came to Seoul , I was lucky enough to help her with her story on the night dining culture. Through the course of several nights, her friends and I went exploring the streets and alleyways for the best eats in Seoul. Her story encapsulates the dining culture. Michael, thank you so much for your wonderful story. Here is an excerpt: Go here to read the rest Korean dishes, like superheroes, are traditionally granted special powers. Kam ja tang, a potato and pork-rib stew, is a hangover cure. Chicken feet will improve your complexion — just ask any teenage girl. And grilled eel or chicken soup with rice and ginseng are among the many dishes that servers will earnestly tell you are “good for stamina.” After a five-month stay in Seoul, I’ve decided that the last quality is not simply innuendo but a key survival skill if you live and work in this tireless metropolis, where even dinner can be an eight-hour marathon. Korea...

Jesus Loves Kimchi Yesterday at our cooking school, we had a special guest: Jesus. He came to our cooking class at 10am and then did our barbecue class at 2pm. Then because he enjoyed them so much, he joined our night dining tour that night. Jesus loves Korean food and Korean alcohol and partying like a Korean. Cheers, Dan Jesus Loves Bindaetteok Night Dining Tour

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.

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.

The last few months have been very busy for my company.   Our last project was to design culinary tours in Korea for tourist coming to Seoul for Korea Tourism Organization . I was lucky to be able to invite press for one of our tours so we brought in Chandra Ram from Plate Magazine, Brian Lio from Jetsetzero , Benjamin Jackson from Seoul Magazine and Yonhap News, and Cho Jae-un from the Joongahn-ilbo newspaper . We were so lucky get such a talented group of people together and I think they enjoyed themselves. Here are two articles written by Jae-un Cho from the Joongahn-ilbo Newspaper. Thank you so much Jae-un! Dan From farm to market, culinary tour offers a return to the basics ‘This is the real Korea that foreigners often don’t get to experience.’ -Daniel Gray December 11, 2010 Blocks of meju (dried fermented soybeans) hang at Jeolgol Farm By Cho Jae-eun YANGPYEONG, Gyeonggi - A glop of freshly cooked soybeans turned into perfect, golden squares of meju (dried fermen...

Bottoms up! Korean Soju Shots I just wrote an article for Koreataste.org which has been kind enough to ask me to write for them on a regular basis. The site is one of the best sites I have seen so far for Korean food. It's new (It has only been open since August 15th), but it has a wealth of content on the site. I wish that I could make Seouleats that organized. Anyway, I'm a writer and I'm happy to write for them. Here is an excerpt of the article. Jump over to their site to read the rest. Please vote (Give a Thumbs up!) and leave a comment. It makes the site administrators (and me) very happy. When our company, O’ngo Food Communications ( www.ongofood.com ) started our night dining tours, our concept was to introduce real Korea to tourists and have them experience the culture through the cuisine. It has become our most popular tour with over 200 participants. We start our tour around the shops of working class people around Kwangjang Market. As night falls, t...

Last week's Mandu and bibimguksu was a big success and we had 9 people come to our cooking studio to learn from Chef Shawn. This week's menu on Saturday, July 17th is: Spicy Black Soy Sauce Chicken (Andong Jjimdak) Rolled Egg Omelet Side Dish (Gyeran Mari) Seasonal Salad We originally planned Samgyetang, but we do not have enough pots to make the dish. This dish will be scheduled when we move to our new cooking studio in Insadong. The class will be held at  O'ngo Cooking Studio in Gangnam-gu. Chef Shawn will first give a demo on how to make the different dishes and then you'll get to make your own lunch. Class will start at 11am. The cost is 55,000 won per person and this includes lesson, food, and drinks. The market tour is 5,000 won extra and the tour starts at 10am at Daechi Station (Subway Line 3) exit 3. You can RSVP by e-mailing Daniel Gray at seouleats at gmail dot com or by calling at 010 6661 7769. O'ngo Cooking Studio is located near Gangnam-g...

When Rudy Maxa of Rudy Maxa's World Came to Seoul, the General of Kwangjang market played him a show. This guy has been at the market for many, many years and he always goes around and plays the saxophone. He's a very nice man- possibly a bit off, but very nice.  You can see great characters like him on our Night Dining Tour.

Corn Sandwich from 7-11 Here's the stuff Look at those luscious chunks of corn Jack is a genetics professor and while he was in Seoul for a conference, he decided to go on one of our Night Dining Tours. After the tour, we went to the 7-11 to get some ice cream (Jack loves ice cream). So here he is talking about his experience with a corn ice cream sandwich that has chunks of corn. Yum.   http://www.seouleats.com/p/korean-night-dining-tour.html ,

Makgeolli in a suggestive jar Go Here for more information on the tour

Last Thursday, I took a group of foodies out for a night dining tour.  They decided that they wanted to have some live octopus, so that's what we did. It was a great time and it was a lot of fun trying to watch them pick up the squirming, slippery, moving pieces of octopus. I'll be running Night Dining Tours on Wednesday-Saturday Night if you would like to join, Cheers, Dan Plum Wine Live Octopus Tempura Spicy Fish Soup