Recently I was nominated by Saveur Magazine as one of the Best Food Blogs in the “Most Innovative Video” category. As a Korean food blogger, I’m very honored and happy to be included to the one of the six contestants! ooh whoo! Korean food is known around the world!
Ever since I was nominated I’ve received many emails [...]
Hi everyone,
I wanted to tell you about a new contest put on by the Korean Presidential Council for Nation Branding and YouTube. The purpose of the contest is to promote Korean food around the world through video recipes on YouTube.
You can find the details here, but basically you need to make a video of your [...]
No wonder Costa Rica is known as “the most user-friendly country in South America.” Transportation is well connected everywhere. Restaurants and stores are on every corner, US dollars are taken in many places, and many people could speak English! The country is very easy to travel if you follow the directions of your travel [...]
Hi, everybody!
If you are my long time reader, you will probably know who Reinier is!
He will be visiting New York next week! I’m so excited about meeting him now!
I am going to take him to my favorite Korean knife-cut noodle soup place.
If you like to join us, let me know by leaving your comment here: [...]
Some photos of good food that I had are blurry, so I can’t post them here, but these are I ate while I traveled in Costa Rica:
Ice cream made with cactus flower. The beautiful purple color got my attention. I had this ice cream twice!
Tamale wrapped in banana leaves
casado: typical Costa Rican meal consisting of [...]
My 10 days trip to Costa Rica was awesome! Whenever I travel to any place, I always think that I could live there forever. Costa Rica was not exceptional that way.
People in Costa Rica are very genuine and friendly. Their food is good and most of all, so many people can speak English there. I [...]
Hi, everybody,
My trip to Boston was very fun. I was happy and excited to have a part in a movie! It wasn’t difficult for me to act.
It was thrilling to be surrounded by smart, passionate filmmakers. Even though it was cold, they worked so hard. The lighting person had to hold up the lights for [...]
Hi, everybody,
I’m leaving for Boston soon this morning.
One of my long time blog readers, my website supporter, and Harvard film student Paul Whang invited me to act in his film. I met Paul about 1 1/2 years ago at my LA meetup. He volunteered to be my cameraman at that time.
Recently I got an email from [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center to teach Korean cooking.
First, I was very surprised to see the well-equipped kitchen. Whatever I needed, they had: hundreds of stainless steel bowls, butane gas burners, non-stick pans, food processors, lots of different size pots, steamers… Oh, except for 2 items: a rice cooker and [...]
I sometimes think Maangchi is not me but kind of 3rd person!
So I’m calling myself “Maangchi in …”
As I mentioned before, I have been interviewed by Korean radio broadcasting companies and newspaper reporters.
Some readers told me that I was on the Korean news on Monday night. Here’s the clip from KBS (Korean Broadcasting Company). If [...]
Do you remember Jia Xin? Her mom Jenny says,
“Jia xin just turn 4 this 3th of jan 2010. Already Nursery 2 class. Btw, let me introduce another fan of jjajangmyun…. Taa… raaa.. he s my son, Jia xin’s brother, 2 years old.His name is Xiang bin. Well,i can say both of my kids are fans [...]
Hi, everybody,
You might be wondering why some people are leaving illegible comments on my website, or if you have Korean fonts installed, you might wonder why there are so many Korean comments these days?
Dakshana Bascaramurty wrote about me in The Globe and Mail last week, which is Canada’s biggest newspaper. Ever since then I’ve been getting [...]
I received an email from my long time reader Cynthia on New Year’s Eve. She said, “… Maangchi, did you delete my photos on your website?.. My photos are gone..”
I didn’t remember what photos she emailed, so I searched her emails in my Google email account that I saved. I usually save all important emails.
I [...]
These days I’m often surprised at my readers’ cooking skill when I see some of the photos of Korean dishes they send. I sometimes feel their dishes look much more beautiful than mine! And I see their improved cooking skill.
A couple of days ago, Alex Lee emailed me some photos of Korean dishes that he [...]
If someone says he or she loves backpack traveling, they’re instantly a friend of mine. Then if they say they would rather stay in cheap hostels than luxury hotels, I know we already have a lot in common. Yes, I don’t want to be stuck in a luxurious hotel surrounded by rich tourists.
I met lots [...]
Guatemala doesn’t seem to have many Asian tourists yet, so I got a lot of attention wherever I went. When I walked around the streets, I found most people stopped to look at me! Especially when I was browsing the local market in Coban, I heard a Mayan lady, holding her little baby on her [...]
Guatemala is known as a country of corn and their staple foods are corn, tomatoes, peppers, beans, tomatillos, sweet potato, and squash. You can hear the clapping sound of women making tortillas in every corner of town. They take some dough and rub it to make a ball between their palms and spread it by [...]
Tikal
My 2 week trip to Guatemala was done successfully. I could not check my email, Youtube, and my blog comments everyday. Maybe every other day when I found an internet café, I could only approve the comments, but no answer. Approving comments took about 1-2 hours. It was impossible to answer everybody’s questions.
I found [...]
Hi, everybody,
I’m packing my backpack to leave for my 2 week backpack travel to Guatemala tomorrow! Ooh whoo! : ) 2 weeks travel is not that long, but my heart is beating now because of too much excitement!
I will try out authentic Guatemalan food as much as I can during my trip, and [...]
On Saturday Oct.24, I took bus number 166 to New Jersey with one of my readers Kristi to go to our meetup place. Our meetup place was not a fancy restaurant but a huge Korean shopping center!
It was only 20 minutes ride from Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan and the round trip tickets were [...]
As I mentioned through my twitter a while ago, I am the one of the winners of the “Blog Korea, visit Korea” competition. The prize LG netbook (LGX12) arrived at home a few days ago.
iphone and netbook
The cute and small computer was packed tightly enough to be unbreakable even if it were dropped from a [...]
So many people have asked me about shopping for Korean ingredients – they don’t know what to buy, or how to choose the best ingredients. So this meetup is going to be a trip to a big Korean grocery store in New Jersey. We’ll have lunch in the grocery store cafeteria (it’s pretty good!) and [...]
Last week I met Mr. Gowman in a restaurant in Koreatown. I didn’t know I was being interviewed by him until he said “Oh, I forgot my tape recorder.” Which freaked me out! I usually don’t like to be interviewed, I like to make friends.
But I found out he’s a very nice man, and very [...]
I watched Bobby Flay’s kimchi making on his show, Boy Meets Grill on the Food Network channel today.
All I can say is OMG OMG! If you guys saw it together with me, I’m sure we would all make a loud voice “OMG.”
First he chopped the whole cabbage crosswise, without first splitting it lengthwise, and put [...]
Hey everybody, happy Sunday!
This is a little present for all of you. I’ve been using a photo taken from my hwajeon video as my computer desktop background for a long time. The flowers were so pretty and I thought I would share with you guys. So I made a few sizes and here they are.
Download, [...]
Hi, everyone!
Thank you for leaving your introductions here in the forum!
I love to read your fascinating stories about what made you interested in Korean food and Korean culture. I didn’t mean to teach Korean culture when I started this website, I just wanted to share my Korean recipes. But now I see that everybody has [...]
I went to Flushing yesterday to do some grocery shopping. On the way home I remembered that last year at this time I bought some sesame leaves from a woman on the street, I thought I would stop by and see if she was there this year.
I’m not sure this is the same lady as [...]
I went to my friend’s cottage in the Catskill mountains, located in upstate New York, about 2 hours driving from New York City. There were about 20 guests and I found all good homemade food! It was a July 4th party and my friend prepared delicious bbq and side dishes.
I brought Korean style marinated galbi [...]
Jennifer from The Pickle Club TV contacted me and asked me for an interview about kimchi. She came to my New York meetup 30 minutes early and brought a jar of kimchi.
I thought it was hers! She asked me to taste it and give my opinion. Jennifer stayed for the rest of my meetup and [...]
Hi, everyone,
Here’s what happened at the June 20th meetup last Saturday:
It was a great success even though the weather was rainy.
I was surprised to see many people appeared on time, around 12:00 pm at the Sony Plaza in Manhattan. As I said, nothing could stop us from meeting!
As usual, I didn’t have to worry about finding people because [...]
Hello everybody and New Yorkers!
Let’s do another meetup in New York City on Saturday, June 20th, around 11 or 12. This time will be a little different. Bring one Korean dish that you made. I’m going to bring some prizes for the most delicious dishes. I’m also going to bring rice, kimchi, and bulgogi so [...]
Hi, everybody, I received an email last year from a man named Chris living in Germany. He said he changed his diet to Korean food and lost lots of kilos! He made his own Korean food following my recipes. I was very surprised but happy!
I encouraged him to tell people about his success and [...]
Today I’m opening a new section on my website offering Korean cooking classes in New York.
I’d like to thank all of you for offering suggestions and support on my blog, by email, and even twitter. Wow, so many people spent some time giving me good advice! I’m very thrilled! I really think posting my favorite recipes [...]
If you have looked closely the food photos on my website, you may already familiar with the name Reinier.
Reinier lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He’s been very busy cooking Korean food these days and sending me the photos. He introduced himself on my website, “hi,… i was recently interested in Korean cuisine when we ‘accidentally’ got [...]
Hi, everybody,
I’m planning to hold some Korean cooking classes in Manhattan. Right now I’m deciding what to teach and developing a teaching plan. Do you have any suggestions for me? If you were going to take a Korean cooking class, what would you want to learn in it? What kinds of foods would you want [...]
On Feb.16 at 7:00 pm at a restaurant in Garden Grove, Los Angeles, I got together with 11 of my viewers.
“Oh, Maangchi!”
“Wow, wow!”
“I was worried about today’s weather because it has been raining all day. I drove more than 50 miles to come here!”
“I can’t believe I’m sitting with Maangchi!”
I gave my camera [...]
Hi, Californians!
I’m visiting my mother in LA soon, so I’m planning for a meetup between Feb 15-20. If you want to join, please email me at maangchi@gmail.com and let me know your preferable meeting date, time, and place, as well as your name and phone number. Don’t worry, I won’t give this information to anyone [...]
Mr. Clyde is a cooking guru that I met through YouTube. He is living in Jacksonville Florida. We have never met each other but I think he’s one of my good friends! Who says internet friends are not genuine friends!
Whenever Mr. Clyde posts his video, he emails me. I always give him 5 stars! Whatever [...]
On Dec. 13, 2008 I met up with some of my Canadian readers and viewers in Koreatown in Toronto.
I arrived there before 11:00 am and one by one they showed up at the restaurant. I noticed who was there for the meetup right away because they seemed to recognize me before I recognized them.
“Oh~ Maangchi, [...]
Hello, Torontonians!
I’m planning Toronto Meetup on Saturday, Dec.13, 2008 at 11:00 am
(from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm).
I’m going to visit Toronto soon!
We are going to a Korean restaurant all together.
Don’t expect me to cook at this time. : ) I have no kitchen to cook there.
If you want to meet me or other blog readers, [...]
My second cookbook is now available for sale. The first one was very popular, so I made another with all my recipes from the last year. You can download the .pdf e-book for free, or buy a full-color printed one on the Createspace website and on Amazon.com.
I also made a book that contains books one [...]
I went to Chinatown this afternoon. It was a very exciting and pleasant visit as usual. I bought these items.
Chestnuts, ginkgo nuts, air vacuumed sticky corn, green onions, Asian chives (buchu) shrimp, thin noodles, Chinese black bean sauce, a can of bamboo shoots, and fresh pork belly! And a dozen live blue crabs!
I cooked the [...]
I made this sushi using the fish on the left (forgot the name but it’s pickled and tastes is like mackerel), avocado, seasoned and cooked eel, laver (kim: nori). I bought these fish at a Japanese grocery store.
On the lettuce, the red stuff is a pickle that I made with beets. Its actual color is [...]
I was interviewed a few days ago by Ms. Jinhwa Jo (조진화) who is working for Korea Joongang Daily News in New York. She let me know the article is already on today!
You may not understand what it says because it’s written in Korean.
It’s all good things about me! Check out my face! I interviewed [...]
Hi, Everybody,
I think I should let you know that I updated my jjajangmyun recipe.
I made my jjajangmyeon by following my own recipe a few days ago because a few people pointed out their jjajangmyeon turned out too bland.
I exactly followed the measurements in the recipe and found out some were wrong! I don’t know what [...]
I was so happy to find this store yesterday. It’s at 91 Mulberry St in Chinatown. The closest subway is Canal St.
I saw many Korean ingredients (hot pepper powder, paste, seaplant.. etc) sold at a cheap price. They even have the short grain rice that I eat! I bought some dried noodles and Chinese egg [...]
Mila was my guest for my next video, maeuntang. She brought some food with her, and we had lunch with maeuntang, some side dishes, and what she brought.
In the front is kong namul (soy bean sprouts) and gaji namul (eggplant). Center is beets, kimchi, and ge jang (crab). Behind that is carrots and maeuntang.
We had a great [...]
I went to Lower East Side Pickle Festival a while ago. People brought their homemade pickles made with so many different kinds of vegetables. It was a hot steamy day, but the tasting of the free sample pickles was enjoyable. Some pickles were not well made, so its taste was kind of soggy. Pickles should [...]
Last Friday I went to Hagi sake bar which is located on 152 West 49 street Manhattan, NYC. They serve beautiful and delicious food along with sake. We had to wait for 1 hour to get seats! It was full of customers, most of them Asian. Here is what I had:
They serve sake [...]
Hi everyone! I made a new discussion forum for my website here: http://www.maangchi.com/talk/
When I first started making Korean cooking videos on YouTube, I was really interested in helping people learn how to cook Korean food. But YouTube comments are so short, so I made a blog to keep in contact with viewers. Then I added [...]
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