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

District: Vintage Cafeteria in Jongno 3-ga I'm always suspicious of the new big, shiny restaurants in the busy areas of Seoul. The trainwrecks are often they are the punchline of the pun: "What do you get when you combine a cafe, wine bar, Italian restaurant, beer, desserts, and waffles?" It was cold out and District was open, so I went in with my friends for a quick lunch. I was pleasantly surprised at their menu: shrimp pizza with truffle oil, chicken and broccoli cream spaghetti, and salad with fresh pineapple. Their citron ice tea has flavorful globes of frozen yuja orange- very refreshing and creative. Also, bottles of wine and alcohol aren't too expensive either (both start at 30,000). On top of that, the atmosphere is open and well decorated. Maybe restaurants are finally starting to get it: good food in a nice atmosphere at a decent price = business. Oh, just one little thing: they need to work a bit on service. Cute doesn't mean efficient. District:...

Jubilee Chocolatier I recommend going to Jubilee Chocolatier for a hot mug of their hot chocolate. They use high grade chocolate and they froth it up using their steam wand. It is delicious. Directions go out Jonggak Station( Subway Line 1) exit 4 and walk towards the river. It's on the corner. 전화 : 02-734-7337 주소 : 서울시 종로구 관철동 288 교원빌딩   *영업시간 - 평일 Open 7:30 ~ Close 23:00 - 금,토 Open 7:30 ~ Close 24:00

Finding White Balance I never knew how hard it was to do food styling until I started working on a new project to photograph 150 Korean foods and make them look good. Lighting is important and so is the color of the food. Every minuscule little detail must be in place. And the worst part of the whole thing is that often you have to use less seasoning to make the colors show through. Also, lots of the dishes have a bit of oil sprayed on it so they don't taste good (but it adds shine). Plus, you have to take tons of shots so by the time you are done, you're not in the mood to eat it anyway. Here are some of our test shots (sorry, I can't show the final ones). Dan Bibimbap Kimchi Fried Rice

Noodle Soup So, I'm curious: where did you eat over the weekend? Anyplace good or bad? I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was pretty busy with different meetings and cooking classes. I was fortunate to meet Mr. Jolly-Lebey, who is a well known food critic in France. He was a very kind and insightful man and he really liked the restaurants that we went to. I also had mugwort noodle soup at a place across from KTO. I don't remember the name of the place, but it was in a seafood broth and flavored with beef. Very nice. I went to Mamacitas- a new Mexican Place opening over in Apgujeong. The place has promise and they have good tequila. I had coffee and dessert with Mr. Benjamin Joineau at his restaurant, Le Saint Ex. He has excellent espresso and his apple tart was perfect with it. Le Saint Ex is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year so he has many dinner specials and contests this month. I visited Story of the Blue Star in Insadong- my favorite makgeolli place ...

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.

Faucher Family Christmas Lights in Delaware Dude! See! Delaware is famous! The Faucher Family in Delaware have built extravagant Christmas lights setups for 25 years now and every year my family would drive though the neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware to see all the lights. The brightest was this house and now they are being featured in Gizmodo!  They use 1,000,000 lights. It costs them $82,320 to light their house for the month according to Houselogic (find out how they do the math at their site). Merry Christmas everyone and yay for Delaware! Come take a cooking class or take a Culinary Tour in Seoul! http://www.ongofood.com