Eskimo Rice 에스키모밥: it's a new lobster flavored snap and it has my vote for new trendy snack. It's a little spicy but with a surprising buttery flavor. I also love the lobster shape. Pretty good. #snack #nongshim #seouleats #koreafood #foodporn #love #instagood #beautiful #food #korea #instafood #instatravel #travelgram  #goodeats #foodblogger #푸드스타그램 #맛스타그램 #맛있어 #좋아요 #냠냠 #데일리 #맞팔 #데일리 #맛있다 #먹스타그램  Follow me on social media @seouleats.com

It is all the rage these days and I am trying to figure out why. I mean they do have a savory, sweet flavor with a more of a buttery taste than honey. I guess that could be it. I mean it does taste a bit like Outback's Honey butter. Maybe it's nostalgia or something but these little guys are all sold out everywhere. Convenience stores are putting out signs that say, "we don't have them" to stop having to answer the question if they do.  I guess Korea just likes food fads and the mad dash to get them. I mean look at Churros and softserve ice cream.  Dan

  These days I feel like I am always running around for work and meetings and such so I have just a little time to grab some food and go. I try to eat as healthy as possible, but sometimes I like indulge in some junk food. One of my favorite goto snacks is pumpkin rice cake (hobak tteok). Nakwon tteokjip in Insadong packages them individually so it is like an energy bar. It has a slight pumpkin flavor and also black and red beans, chestnuts, peas, and some dates. It's a great snack to have and it is pretty healthy. Nakwon tteokjip is pretty creative with their tteok selection. I recently had a cheese rice cake. It looked like cheese even if it didn't quite taste like it. They also have daechu, black raspberry, mugwort, green tea, and black rice. Good stuff and they are made fresh every day. Another snack I have is gukhwa bang. It's an ice cream sandwich that is in the shape of a flower. Inside there is creamy ice cream and there is a chewy layer of rice cake an...

Songgi Mushroom These days, I am into snacking and I love carbs. It must have something to do with the exercise that I'm doing. I try to run a couple of days a week so my metabolism is a bit quicker than it was. So...I can snack and go and not worry so much. But being busy with a couple different projects I haven't had many full meals. I eat and I go. So here are some quick bites I have had in the last couple of days. Up first is Songgi mushrooms which are considered to be the highest quality mushrooms in Korea. A box costs 100-120,000 won and I think you might get 8 or so. While I was stopping by in the morning to visit my favorite monk, Dae Ahn Sunim, she insisted that I have a few of these mushrooms. They were cooked simply -just steamed, yet they had a wonderful punch of flavor that felt like an endorphine high. Lovely stuff. I recommend you try them. Pumpkin Rice Cake Another thing I've been eating a lot of are pumpkin rice cakes. I think they are much bet...

My ice hockey playing, Nascar loving, computer geek of a sister has a pretty cool, fat cat. Here is the cat dreaming of cheetos. I am submitting this to Cheetos.com . I hope they will pick it up! 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 is a random snack from Paris Baguette. They are thin, flakey bread sticks that have parmesan and shrimp flakes. They taste interesting- like Korean shrimp chips. I can't say that I was in love with them. Dan

Cup of Spicy Chicken How about a cup of fried boneless chicken chunks tossed with tater tots and fried rice cake? at Hong Cup in Hongdae,  Kim Ji-yeon is doing just that. The sauces are homemade, the beer is cold, and the cozy place is great for a quick late night snack with friends. Oh, and the price? It’s only 2,000 won for the small cup of chicken and beer is also 2,000- you can add a shot of soju to make so-maek for only 1,000 more. She even has a cheddar cheese chicken up on the menu (3,000 won)- I’m going to have to get that next time. Hong Cup Mapo-gu Seogyodong 365-16 070-8777-9158 Go out Hongdae Station Exit 9 (formerly 5) and make a left. At the main road make a right and walk to the road. Cross to the other side and make a left at Tony Moly down the little alley. It’ll be 2 minutes up on the left. 2,000-4,000 per person

Korean Garlic Snack Koreans love their garlic (end their speling arrors^^).

Poop Bread! Filled with creamy, mashed red bean Happy Monday everyone! Sorry, but this picture was just screaming for a disgusting byline. I have suggested they fill the bread with chocolate, but they just gave me a look that said, but "we always fill them with red bean. Melted chocolate wouldn't taste good." I guess they didn't get my joke.

Yesterday was Pepero Day and I think you must all be coming down from the sugar highs of cookie sticks dipped in chocolate. I just noticed my buddies' Pepero Day and it is hilarious! Check it out! Check out more great videos over at Eatyourkimchi.com Come take a cooking class or take a Culinary Tour in Seoul! http://www.ongofood.com

Be sure to buy your pepero! If you work at a public school, you'll probably receive tons of these chocolate sticks. Keep the boxed ones from Lotte and give away the rest. (Size doesn't matter on pepero day. Skinny is best). Want to learn more about Pepero Day look here^^ Pepero Day is coming! Look at those huge boxes to the left! Even the 7/11 is getting ready for Pepero Day Don't forget to get your pepero gift pack for your girlfriend, wife, or friend!

photo by Lunalil Here is a repost on pepero Day 11/11 or November 11 th is Pepero Day in Korea and there is a very good chance that you will receive a couple of boxes of these long thin snacks on this day. The classic pepero sold by Lotte is a thin biscuit stick that is dipped in chocolate. Over time these have evolved into thin pretzel wrappers with chocolate inside (called Nude Pepero), Almond Chocolate, Strawberry, Blueberry, Nude Lemon Cheese, and then huge peperos that are the length of an adult’s arm. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the number of these strange thin snacks that swarm the Korea landscape on 11/11. So how did it start? The Lotte Confectionary Company introduced Pepero to Korea back in the 1980s. Many people believe that the company invented this day to increase their sales. If the Lotte Company did do this then it was a huge success. It sells almost two-thirds of it’s yearly total of these snacks in the two months before November 11 th (Source: Lina Yoon Wa...

Hotteok Hotteok is Korea's Boston Creme Pie and it's one of my favorite snacks when it gets colder. It's a simple recipe. You put a little sugar, cinnamon and ground up peanuts into a risen dough disk and then fry it up in some oil. It's very much like a donut, but chewier. My favorite place to get it is out Anguk Station Exit 4 past the palace. There is an old grandpa there that's been doing it for years. It's good stuff and his is slowly cooked with little oil. Delicious. The Hotteok Truck Hotteok Grandpa

What is Making Korean Children Fat? Health classes are moving a few Korean students in a healthier direction this summer. For an hour a week, students participate (voluntarily) in a workout or dance session. According to a recent article in the JoongAng Daily, students of all levels are participating in such a program to fight childhood obesity. Even though an hour a week hardly suffices as exercise, it's progress. In 2007, the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development reported that one out of every 10 Korean students was obese. Not only did this figure increase with age, boys also showed higher rates of obesity than girls.  Currently,  obese students are increasing at a 1 percent rate annually. Although Korean food is relatively healthy, a number of Korean students remain overweight.  With such a strong emphasis on studying, many students are shuttled to after-school classes. Rarely is there time for dinner until late at night. To curb hunger pangs, stud...

Apparently, Koreans do. Too bad, they ain't that good (pretty dry and lacking in cheezy flavor).

Just a little snack before studying. The strips of sweet potato are cut super thin and then fried in oil so they are very crispy.

This Cute Little Shop always has a huge line. In English it is Mamae Cup Chicken. It's 1000 for a small cup and 2000 for a large cup. I believe they recently changed the name to Lee' cup of Chicken. They mix pieces of crisp chicken and fried rice cakes in a sweet and spicy chili sauce and then layer in tater tots and top this with honey mustard. Here are the ladies hard at work assembling the Spicy Cup O' Chicken. Here is the finished cup. Just grab a toothpick and go for a walk. Location: Right down from the main entrance from Sookmyeong Woman's University.

So Lunalil introduced me to Nutritional Yeast on popcorn. I know it sounds awful and hippie-ish, but man-man is it good. They are like crispy, cheezy flakes that give the popcorn a cheezy, nutty flavor and it is totally addictive. The popcorn is supposed to be made on the stove or in a microwave with a drop or two of tabasco sauce. If you are going to make it in the microwave, you are supposed to just use brown lunch bags. Add a bit of oil, salt, tabasco sauce and then fold over the top and staple it with two staples. This is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying the pop secret bags of popcorn.