Hello everybody!
Recently CJ Foods contacted me and offered to send me some Korean ingredients as a way of saying “thank you” for spreading Korean culture and cuisine. It was very kind of them to offer, but after talking to them some more, we decided it would be more fun to set up this giveaway for my readers. This is CJ’s way of encouraging you to cook Korean food, because they know that not everyone can find Korean ingredients easily.
So, leave a comment on this post, and you’ll be entered to win a Korean cooking startup kit from CJ.
Please leave only one comment below, and then there will be 20 winners chosen at random by random.org. This contest is open to anyone in the world. Wherever you live, if you win then CJ will deliver this startup kit to your house.
The contest will close at midnight (New York time), December 15th and I’ll contact the winners through email. The winners need to answer me in 5 days, and if anyone doesn’t answer in time I’ll have to pick the next winner. So please, when you register for my website to leave a comment, make sure you use a current email! And be sure to check your email around that time!
The other cool thing about this startup kit is that a lot of the products in it are from CJ’s new Bibigo brand, which you’ll soon be able to buy outside of Korean grocery stores in the USA. I asked CJ about this, and they said Bibigo is just a new brand name for their Haechandle brand, which I have been using for decades and you may have seen in my ingredients section.
So, good luck to you! I hope you win!
Update Dec 23, 2011 – The contest is now closed, and the winners have been announced. Thank you for entering!
Korean food has opened up a whole new world of healthy eating for me. So fresh and nutrient dense. Now, with your recipes I can repurpose my Korean-restaurant budget into a Korean-ingredient budget!
All those yummy ingredients. I love korean food!
Thank you for all your great recipes. You have opened up whole new world of flavors I would not have tried if I had not found your recipes on youtube.
What a great giveaway! Thanks for spreading the knowledge of Korean cuisine!
I love your cooking videos, and I hope to make them when I have the chance. I especially want to make my favorite Korean dish, Kimchi jjigae! Thank you so much for showing us just how amazing Korean cuisine really is!
I love Korean food! Growing up in Hawaii, we had it often but now that I live in Kansas, we don’t get it as much as I’d like. I make a passable bulgogi but could use some help!
Hi Unnie!
Love your website and the recipes! :D I hope I win a kit!
<3 YJ
I learned to make kimchi through maangchi and now I am hooked. Thank you for all the great recipes. Hope to win!!
i grew up with korean friends who always cooked delicious food for me on the east coast. i’m finally trying to teach myself how to cook it on my own! this blog is awesome and i love your recipe books too. we are making bibimbap for christmas day, and i’m really excited to make my own kimchi! thanks for such a great blog!
I live in Canada but the past few months I have started appreciating the Korean culture a lot.
TV, music, language and cuisine, they’re all very interesting and cooking is already something I really like to do. I hope I win! Thank you for making such great videos! :)
I’m a kimchi chigae maniac! That’s the only Korean dish I know how to cook so far. Gonna learn how to cook other Korean dishes!
It’s hard to find nice, authentic food in Singapore and travelling to find the ingredients is a hassle as it cannot be easily found everywhere ! I hope I’ll be able to win this as I really have a lot of interest in cooking Korean food ! (:
OMG!!! i really want to try make corean food, but in my country its so dificult find the ingredients i hope i can win wish me luck everybody….
im a huge fan for corean dramas and every time i see the people eating i want to try the food please excise my poor english :D
Wow that’s a whole lot of ingredients from CJ! Hoping to win them so that I can attempt to replicate your recipes, ingredients for Korean cuisine are so difficult to source sometimes! ^^
I’ve been reading your food blog and finally got the courage to try to cook Korean food. It’s very yummy and thank you for hosting this contest. I wish everyone luck!! :)
oh my gosh, I hope I win this so that I can impress my Korean classmate. I have a secret crush on him. HAHA.
just last October, my mom died.. that means leaving me with all the household chores.. i’m a fan of korean dramas, im impressed with the presentation of food.. i started making bibimbap and then my dad started liking it.. my brother love spices.. we don’t have much money to buy korean ingredients..
I have learned how to cook so many Korean foods through your blog and I can now impress my Korean friends with the knowledge garnered from your site. Unfortunately I go to college (Cornell University) in a place that does not have a large Korean market which makes it hard to find the proper ingredients to make Korean dishes. I hope that I will win, but even if I don’t I still enjoy trying new recipes. Thanks for being an amazing woman and an inspiration! ^-^
I am a Canadian born Korean and have lost my voice for the language but not my appetite. Where I live I can’t find the proper ingredients to cook my heritage but when I visit the nearby city I go nuts! Maangchi has helped me reconnect to my childhood adding new flavours and I’m loving every minute of it! My favourite dish is naengmyuen and bibimbap.
wow, this is exciting! Wish me good luck!
I have just started taking in Cooking as a hobby and I have a great passion for it now. I have been taking cooking seriously now for a few months and I am also signing up for some classes at my school. I love my Asian heritage and I adore the culture; especially their food! I found your videos on youtube and love the way you showcase the Korean food dishes and would love to try them for myself given this chance. Thank you for this opportunity to widen my knowledge of Asian culture and the culinary arts.
I feel in love with Korean food when I tried it out the first time with the stone pot bibimbap. It’s a tried and true dish that never fails. I’m glad to have found your Web site to learn how to cook splendidly, delicious Korean food. I’m going down your recipe index to try out at least each one once! Thank you for your gift to the world! =D
I really love koreanfood! I’ve been following your blog for a few years now. I try to get good ingredients here, but I usually have to pick something else to replace the actual ingredient.
But I love your food blog, and it’s good that you’ve become so popular. And this contest thing even if I don’t win. Good for you! you’ve don a great job inspiring people.
I love korean food very much and have tried few recipes you posted, that was fantastic! But getting the full ingredients are pricey especially in UK, hope i could be the lucky one! :)
Love your recipes and I love cooking your recipes (although my wife cooks them much better) I will be trying gamjatang next!! Please let me win
i never cooked korean food but love to eat it .it would be great to know how to make and maybe add a twist to it. sake
I LOVE your site! This is an awesome giveaway.
From the first day you post the video, I tried to join in but couldn’t make it. I didn’t know why, but I could only give up. Day after day, I still can’t forget your prize which attracts me a lot, so I tried to join in again today. It made me 3 times today to make it. I am so glad I finally can leave a message now and wish I have the chance to win.
Maangchi, you got to pick me. I am living in a small town and very difficult to buy the Korean ingredient. Choose me choose me choose me choose me choose me choose me.
You got to choose me !!!!
love your videos and korean food! thankyou so so much for all your effort, and if i win this prize i will definately make good use of it!
Hi Maangchi! I absolutely LOOOOVE your blog! I am adopted from Korea and I love learning about all things Korean, especially how to make the food! Your recipes are delicious and your videos are so well done. Thanks for all of the lessons. :-) –jenna
WOW! WOW! WOW! I’m so inspired by your youtube channel! I have always wanted to make, cook, and eat Korean home-made cuisine. One day I decided to search for “kalbi jjim” a korean braised short beef ribs on youtube because I wanted to learn how to make and cook the dish. The first youtube video I watched wasn’t enough for me. All of a sudden I clicked on your youtube channels and I didn’t want to leave all the videos. It almost feel like you were right in my own kitchen cooking with me. Like you mentioned that home-made Korean cuisine is the best because I have accomplished something that I have always dreamed about is making and cooking my own Korean cuisine. I should probably post all of my photos so all the fans can see what I’m making and cooking at home as well. I’m so proud of myself. I love your sense of humor! I hope to meet and cook with you someday. In addition, this is such a great opportunity that you are willing to give away this prize to your fans. It shows that you appreciate our support in your business. Another great step to be successful in your business. Walkinlove!!! :)
Hello,
I am newbie here. I love Korean food and Korean bbq food more.. I only know how to bbq korean short ribs meat. I want to learn to cook Korean foods since I know how to cook vietnamese and american foods already. Therefore, I want to expand to cook more variety foods for my husband and two boys. I hope that I win to start my love of cooking Korean foods… Have a wonderful day!!!
Hallo Maangchi =)
I found your website last month while looking for recipes for butternut squash. I made Hobakjuk and fell in love with it! It was fun making rice balls. I love how all of your recipes are very descriptive. This has become one of my favourite cooking sites to follow (or drool over the pictures) and I’ve slowly started to make more nummy Korean recipes. Thank you sooo much for making a site like this =3
Love your recipes and videos Maangchi. Have made your Easy Kimchi, and am expecting a couple of stone bowls so I can give Bibimbop a try. I used to love ordering Bibimbop or a Bulgogi Lunchbox at the delightful Korean restaurant in Princeton before I retired from the University. My good friend, Prof. Gwee-sook Kim and I frequently went there, and when she and her hubby went to the Korean Market she always brought me a jar of Kimchi. I missed that here near Pittsburgh where I retired to, so figured I’d better learn how to make Korean dishes myself. And you, Maangchi have been a terrific help in this regard. Keep on cooking and sharing how with us learners!
Absolutely love your recipes and videos! Fell in love with korean food at 18 when I lived in Louisiana at Fort Polk, lots of korean wives in the area at that time. My Husband also lived in Korea for a year in late 90’s loved learning to cook his favorite dishes with the help of your videos….hope to win the starter kit….but if not…..will continue to hunt down ingredients.
love your site!