Patbingsu from Haap Haap My favorite dish at Haap is the patbingsu: homemade, sweetened red bean over finely shaved ice mixed with milk and a bit of citron. It is topped with the softest dollop of potato rice cake I have ever had. Haap 070-4209-0819 www.haap01.com I am planning a Seoul Eats Meetup this Saturday at 5pm to have Temple Cuisine and then go to Haap. It will start from my cooking school. We'll go dutch and dinner and dessert should be about 10,000 won. If you can make it e-mail me at seouleats at gmail dot com
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This was sent by one of our tour guests, Dina Fan (Thanks Dina!). She says that this is one of the hottest (I mean coldest) things in Taiwan and Singapore right now. My friend Kratai says it is really popular in Thailand as well. The peanuts are on the bottom and above that is the flavored ice. Hmmm...I can't say it looks very appetizing. 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.
With Summer about to be in full force, I am looking for ways to cool myself down. The best way I have found is with something cool and refreshing. My blood is not 2 parts mulnaengmyeon (chilled buckwheat noodle soup) and 2 parts Korean ice cream and patbingsu. The other 6 parts are just my regular diet of rice, soup, soju, beer etc- not necessarily in that order. These days, I have had a pressing question in my brain: what is the origin of patbingsu? The debate on the internet goes that it has roots in Malaysia or China and then we have Koreans assert that it is uniquely Korean. Of course, there are variations of this snow ice dessert in other countries, but if you look at the classic patbingsu. You have fruit cocktail, sweetened condensed milk, corn flakes, and ice during summer. Could this been a dessert to have started during ancient times? According to the Korea Herald, during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), " Seobingo ― the government office in ch...
Man oh man, it has been a busy week. Our company is finishing up our move to our new fifty person studio in Insadong after a month of reconstruction. I will post pictures of the place soon. I am in love with the area, because I am right down the street from Changdeokgung. After working all day my staff and I had dinner at BBQ Bossam right down the street. This place specializes in slowly roasted pork belly. It was so good. After dinner, I took a walk into the hanok village (Korean traditional Houses) and I found a wonderful raspberry shaved ice cafe. It is was very simple: shaved ice, raspberries, and raspberry juice- red beans on the side. It also came with a piece of corn! The cafe, Margot, was attached to a Buddhist monastery and they were kind enough to give me a tour if their facilities. I wondered a bit longer into alleys near Insadong and I was surprises to find a new tent restaurant mall. This place had like 20 small snack vendors in a newly constr...
Last week I had a chance to meet up with Jenny and Steve who were in town to visit family and to find some good Seoul Eats. Jenny is the writer of the blog www.hummingbirdappetite.blogspot.com She takes amazing pictures and I love her food sensibility. Apparently, she's also a very diligent blogger because she already has the posts up about these restaurants. Hmmmm....so you should visit her blog so you can see a different perspective on the same meal. I decided to take them to a restaurant that I had not been before, but I had heard a lot about from my fellow bloggers in arms: Fatmanseoul and Paul Ajossi. We met up at the Ginko Tree House in Hannam for some stuffed roasted duck. You can read Paul's review of the restaurant here. Here is Jenny with her husband Matt. The duck arrived at the table after being cooked for three hours. The pan was smoking hot and sizzled for a good 20 minutes after arriving. The skin was perfect. It was as crisp as a Beijing style duck but w...
Jeonju, capital of North Jeolla province and former capital of the Baekje dynasty sits in the middle of the fertile Honam plain in an area also known as the rice bowl of Korea. The south-west corner of Korea is occupied by the Jeolla provinces and in my slightly biased opinion, home to the best Korean food in the country and therefore the known universe. Good, wholesome, traditional, regional cooking at its finest; food that has fed countless farm workers for generations and now serves up delicious, mouth wateringly good food to me. Jeonju however, in amongst the swathe of other cities, towns and villages offering delectable dishes in these provinces, is particularly light on ethnic food. Foreign food if you prefer. We have traditional Australian food (via the USA) in the guise of 'Outback Steakhouse' and when you need a big burger and a goldfish bowl full of alcohol, TGI's can step in and fill your foreign belly and offer a welcome respite from Korea (just hope it isn'...
www.walkingslowly.co.kr You can get directions here: http://www.walkingslowly.co.kr/store/store_view.asp?page=1&seq=4 Just say Cheongdam Sagaree. Here is a great cafe in Apgujeong that is totally high end and amazing. It's all about the interior which has high ceilings and an modern feel to it. The cafe has a variety of drinks on the menu such as coffee, tea, wine, beer and they have food such as spaghetti, fruit, and cake. My favorite thing there is the patbingsu. The patbingsu here is very simple. It's not buried in candy, whipped cream, red bean, and other junk. It has a scoop of icecream over red bean covered with some roasted soybean powder, set on shaved ice. The ricecakes are very delicious and chewy. Check it out! Dan
By Daniel Gray www.seouleats.com There are things that I miss about American Summer. I miss the jangling sound of "Pop Goes the Weasel" that drive little kids to beg, steal, or borrow change and then sprint towards roving truck dispensing frozen confectioneries. I miss huge cups at the 7-11 that I could fill with a mixture of exotic frozen Slurpee blends like Super Sour Watermelon, Arctic Blash, and Blue Woo-Hoo Vanilla. And I miss big hulking salads topped with the summer's plenty. Even though there are no Slurpees, ice cream trucks, or big salads in this country, there are plenty of other ways to chillax (chill and relax). As the Seoul sun has been heating up these days, I've made it my mission to find foods that fight the heat wave. Here are my top ten suggestions. 10. Kongguksu 콩국수: Kongguk is a chilled soy milk noodle soup. Traditionally, it's a refreshingly hearty bowl filled with wheat noodles, soy milk, cucumbers, and ground peanuts. There are variations...
During summer time you can find patbingsu (shaved ice with red bean) on the menu of almost every single restaurants and coffee places in Korea - even in Mcdonald and Burgerking. As each outlet tries to serve its own style of patbingsu, so they come up with multifarious new patbingsu's such as wine-bingsu, coffee-bingsu, and fruit-bingsu. While I enjoy these new styles of bingsu, it was getting hard to find old traditional style patbingsu. Surprisingly Japanese hamburger store 'Freshness Burger' serves very plain, yet tasty, patbingsu. However, it is not Korean style. There is no fruit, corn flakes, nor ice cream. This patbingsu comes with only shaved ice, red bean, condensed milk and small cubical rice cakes. Unlike most patbingsu places, which use canned red bean, its red bean is cooked in the outlet. So it is home made style. The red bean is not mashed and keeps its shape in the patbingsu. One of my friends comes to this place only for this red bean. The only thing I didn...
I haven't uploaded pictures in a while, so I figured I should go ahead and do that. Here are some shots that I've been holding and waiting for the right moment to upload. I'm on day four of the master cleanse(yes, I'm doing it again) so I have been romanticizing about food for the last couple of days. First up, this is a Korean Tuna Sushi place that I went to. The food was pretty and pretty good. Carol insists that Hubble is a cat and a girl, so here is my dog in a sailor dress. I think he's posing Delicious Chocolate from Passion in Hangangjin. Mignon has some tasty salads. Here's a chicken one that I got. Mignon is behind Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon, up the hill from 3 Alley. Zaza's Tea Party. Speaking of which she is having another one on Sunday at the Orange Tree. Anyone want to go? I'm cooking. I'm making Curried Egg Salad Sandwiches, a 7? layered bean dip, and some sort of wrap (I haven't decided) Potato roasted in Soy Sauce...yum. Chef Meili...
The pretty little coffee house 'Coin' wasn't the place we were looking for. It was too modern and western while we're looking for traditional Korean patbingsu(sherbet ice with red bean). Anyway we gave it a try since we were tired of walking down the narrow Samchungdong street because of the steamy hot weather. The first floor and second floor were just a very plain coffee house but surprisingly there was an attic, where we were told to go. Climbing up the steep staircase, you can find a cozy attic with only one table for four people. There was a roof garden outside of the attic and the view from the garden was fantastic. We ordered Green tea Patbingsu and Black bean Patbingsu for 4 people because we're told that one patbingsu was only enough for two people. Actually I think four people can share one patbinsu since it's quite big portion of it. Green tea patbingsu was refreshing from green tea ice cream and not too sweet and it came with nuts, while Black bean p...
Our mission to find the best patbingsu in Korea was a success. We started out the day at 먹쉬돈나 (mok schwei don na) which translates to Eat, relax, pay and go for Dukbokki. He had the Seafood, cheese, noodle, and ugly dumpling ( 못난이) dukkbokki and it was outstanding. It came served in a big communal bowl and it was comfortably spicy. The dukkboki sauce was delicious- not too sweet or spicy. Then to wash this down we went to Cafe de coin which is up the street. There we got the large green tea patbingsu and the blackbean patbingsu. Ok, I'm very particular when it comes to my Korean sundae. I don't like all the goop they put in there. I like a centralized taste. The green tea patbingsu had ample amounts of red bean, almonds, peanuts, green tea icecream and rice cakes. It was one of the best ones I've had. The black bean patbingsu took the take. I figured it would have black beans or black sesame beans, but it had the distinct flavor of coffee. It was like an iced frappucino wit...
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