Here is our November Schedule for Cooking Classes. Classes will start at 10am on Saturdays and the cost on Saturdays will be 55,000 won per person. If you pay in advance via bank transfer, the cost is 50,000 won.* Classes will be taught in English by Chef Hyejin and after the class there is a market tour. You'll first see a demonstration of how to make the dishes, then you'll make your own dish. After the class there is a market tour. O'ngo Korean Culinary School is located conveniently in Insadong. 11/5 Pork Mandu (Korean Dumplings), Cabbage Salad with chili sauce 11/12 Radish Kimchi, Braised Soy Sauce Chicken (Andong Jjimdak) 11/19 Sundubu stew and Bean sprout salad *No refunds for cancellations not made 48 hours in advance or guests that don't show up will be charged for the class. Please be courteous to those that would like to take the class. Sign-up form: <p>Loading...</p>

Here is a video of our food tour made by one of our guests. Thank you Mark, for making this. You did a great job! Cheers, Dan 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.

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...

Sushi Dinner Party in Seoul at O'ngo Culinary School The first dinner party was a success and we would like to thank everyone for coming out. Here are some shots from the sushi party with chef Marcus. Hmmm...I wonder who would be interested in learning how to make sushi. Cheers, Dan Sushi Dinner Party in Seoul at O'ngo Culinary School Sushi Dinner Party in Seoul at O'ngo Culinary School Sushi Dinner Party in Seoul at O'ngo Culinary School Sushi Dinner Party in Seoul at O'ngo Culinary School

Here is the sign for Fermentation Trail-abration. The crew has all done a great job preparing and they have lots of great prizes for everyone. You can even win a gift certificate for our cooking classes or tours at O'ngo Food Communications. Oh, and our awesome soy sauce pickles  http://www.seouleats.com/2011/06/soy-sauce-pickles.html 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...

Tuna Roll When we found out that the newest member of our O'ngo Culinary School team, Marcus, used to be a sushi chef in America- we knew that we would have to have a sushi dinner party at our cooking school. Marcus will be churning out excellent hand rolls and sushi rolls at our cooking school with fresh fish from the seafood market. He'll be demonstrating and then serving Maguro Nigiri Sushi, Ebi Nigiri Sushi, Sake Nigiri Sushi, California Rolls, Spicy Tuna Rolls, Alaska Rolls, cucumber rolls and much more. The sushi will be accompanied by miso soup, edamane, gyoza, yakitori and fresh salads. Dinner will come with one complimentary cocktail we'll be making makgeolli watermelon cocktails, Soju Appletini's and we'll have beer, wine, and sake for sale at reasonable prices. Sorry, but at this party there will be no BYOB. This special dinner is 35,000 won a person. You can bank transfer your money to our bank at SC Standard Chartered SC (제일은행) Choi Jia (최지아...

The reason that Jia and I decided to start a culinary school and a culinary tourism company was that we wanted to share Korean food and culture with others so they would in turn share what they learned from others. One of our students at our school, Kim Forge was one of our earliest students and she took all of our cooking classes and tour offerings. This multitalented teacher is a professional curler and a cooking instructor in Australia. She recently sent pictures of her teaching her Australian High School students how to make Korean seafood pancake and turnip salad. It looks like they had a great time. Kim thank you so much for sharing Korean food with others. Here is what Kim said: Hi Daniel, It’s  Kim  Forge from Australia emailing (I am using my work email this time). I want to thank you for sending me more resources on Korean cooking for my Food Studies students. I have meant to email you for some time, but have left it until now. My year 10 students loved making t...

My buddy Susanna and her lover, Sugan, are a wonderful couple- except for one thing: they are ultra competitive. So competitive in fact, that when they signed up for our Intermediate BBQ cooking class, I was a bit worried. I didn't know if this class might get a bit too heated (pun intended).  They were perfect students during the lesson part of the class, but when it came time to cook, they were very focused, words were exchanged, and there were a few elbows thrown.  In the end, they made an array of well presented side-dishes and bbq meat dishes. They had asked me who won the competition. I told them it was a tie. They wouldn't take that as an answer, so I was asked to critic honestly.  You'll have to ask Susanna and Sugan what I said. If you are interested in signing up for Korean cooking classes, contact us at www.ongofood.com or e-mail at ongofood at ongofood dot com Cheers, Dan

Luxury Italian Cooking Class and Lunch with Chef Sebastiano Where: O'ngo Culinary School (www.ongofood.com) Cost: 60,000 KRW Date: April 27, 2010 at 10am Buongiorno! If you are interested in learning real Italian cuisine from a world class Italian chef, then you should come join on on April 27th. Our energetic chef, Sebastiano, has worked in top restaurants in Rome and moved to Korea in 2007 with his Korean wife and their son, and joined the Grissini Beinnale chain. He is currently the chef at the famous Antonio in Cheongdam and has his own line of Italian meals with Pulmone. The class will start with a demonstration and tasting of a classic Italian seafood dish and balsamic chicken entree, and then we will have a hands-on cooking workshop of puttenesca pasta. After the class we will have lunch together to enjoy the real Italian food. Ingredients will be on sale after the class for those that would share their lesson with their family. Class will start at 10am and finis...

Salmon Salad So...you might have noticed that I haven't been eating outside as often these days. It is partly because I have been busy with work, but mainly it is because Chef Hyejin cooks a delicious lunch for us everyday. Yesterday I had a salmon salad with balsamic dressing, doenjang stew, daktoritang, and soy sauce pickles. Everything was absolutely delicious and much better than what I could get at many restaurants. (Maybe we should open up a restaurant.) Here are some shots of the food. Cheers, Dan Daktoritang Soybean Pickles

After many discussions about how to promote Korean food and tourism. Our company, O'ngo Food Communications  partnered with Kyunghee University and Big Farm: a Agri-tourism compan y to form the first Korean Culinary Tourism Association in Korea with the International Culinary Tourism Associatio n. Here is the announcement: 4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd #440 Portland, Oregon 97214 Congratulations to the Korean Culinary Tourism Association, established as of March 15, 2011. Selected as President of the Chapter is: Jia Choi, PhD, with the following as Founding Members: Jia Choi, PhD President of O’ngo Food Communications Daniel Gray Vice President of O’ngo Food Communications and Partner at O'ngo Food Communications  Taehee Kim, PhD Professor at Kyunghee University Eungeum-ju An, President of Big Farm; An Agri-tourism company Erik Wolf, President/CEO and Melody Johnson, Community Manager of the International Culinary Tourism Association send their warmest welcom...

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...

Bibimbap This Saturday, March 19th we'll be having our dolsot bibimbap and bean sprout soup 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 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 advance you can send us a bank transfer at Standard Chartere...

장 소 : 온고프드 커뮤니케이션 ( www.ongofood.com ) 참가비용 : 60,000원 Buongiorno! 세계적인 이탈리안 쉐프로부터 정통 이탈리안 요리를 배우기를 원하시는 분들은 3월 24일에 열리는 쿠킹 클래스에 참가해 보세요. 매우 열정적인 쉐프 세바스티아노는 로마에 있는 최고급 레스토랑에서 일을 하였으며 2007년 한국인 부인과 아들을 데리고 한국으로 건너와 Grissini Beinnale 체인에 합류하였습니다. 쉐프 세바스티아노는 현재 청담동에 있는 유명 레스토랑 안토니오(Antonio)를 총괄하고 있습니다. 쿠킹 클래스는 먼저 쉐프의 시연을 본 후 쉐프가 직접 요리한 클래식 이탈리안 해산물 요리와 발사믹 치킨 요리를 맛볼 수 있는 시간을 가질 예정입니다. 시식이 끝나면 푸테네스카 파스타를 직접 만들어 볼 수 있습니다. 수업 후에는 직접 만든 요리와 쉐프의 특별 메뉴로 점심식사를 하게 됩니다. 또한 집에 돌아가서 가족 또는 친구들을 위해 만들어 볼 수 있도록 필요한 재료를 소량 포장하여 저렴한 가격에 판매할 예정입니다. 수업은 오전 10시부터 12시 30분~1시까지 진행될 예정입니다. 온고 푸드 커뮤니케이션은 인사동에 위치해 있습니다. 수업은 영어로 진행 될 예정이며 경우에 따라서 약간의 이탈리아어와 한국어로도 진행될 것입니다. 이메일과 전화로 예약할 수 있고 더 궁금하신 사항이 있다면 아래 연락처로 연락 주시기 바랍니다. ongofood@ongofood.com Tel : 02 - 3446 - 1607 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...

For those looking to learn the finer points of Korean cuisine, O'ngo Food has started Professional level cooking classes taught by the extraordinary Professor Jia Choi. Professor Choi has a PhD in food and nutrition and specializes in Korean food history, table setting, and cooking. She worked as a food stylist for many years before she started O'ngo Food Communications. I truly feel blessed to work with such a professional person. Jia is fluent in three languages: Korean, Japanese, and English so she has taught people from all over the world. Here she is with 4 chefs from Japan from the Fuji Mien Hotel in Japan and they are learning a range of different dishes. In this particular professional class they learned about the different sauces then they made several side-dishes, chicken and ginseng soup, braised beef ribs, and kimchi. These were the dishes they wished to make in order to introduce these flavors in their own hotels. The chefs were amazingly skilled and th...