1.What is your name and where do you live?
Catherine Tan, Singapore.

2. What do you do and how many family members do you have ?
I’m an event organizer and dance teacher.  There are 6 people in my family, including me.

3. How often do you cook Korean food following my recipes?
Quite often recently! Maangchi is one of  my must-read references when trying out new recipes.

2 kinds of tofu side dishes

myeolchi bokkeum (dried anchovy side dish)

bulgogi

ssamjang (soybean paste dipping sauce) and vegetables

gyeranmari (egg side dish)

4. What are your favorite Korean dishes? Choose 3, please!
Kimchi Chigae, Bibimbap and Japchae!

5. What’s your best Korean dish, the one that everybody compliments you on when you make it?
Japchae (stir-fried noodles with vegetables and meat) :)

I’m going to be showing people how to make perilla leaves kimchi and spicy, stuffed cucumber kimchi. Outside of Korean culture, perilla leaves are not a common ingredient, so I hope my small efforts will contribute to promoting healthy Asian cooking to the American mainstream.

Ever since I posted a video on how to make perilla leaf kimchi on YouTube, some of my readers have surprised me by growing their own in their garden! I don’t have a yard here, so I make an annual trip to Queens for perilla leaves. This year I was too late and I missed the perilla leaf lady, so for the demo I’m going to bring perilla leaves from the Korean grocery store.

If you’re interested in coming to Asian Feastival, let me know. They’re going to give me a promo code for my readers, so you’ll get a discount on the ticket price. A portion of the ticket price will go directly to the New York Food Bank, which is a something I believe in - the proceeds from the New York Kimchi Festival were donated to them, remember?

Click here to view the embedded video.

This event will be sponsored by the 2 Korean food ingredients companies that sponsored my New York Kimchi contest this year: Sempio and Assi. I’m very proud to get sponsorship from the companies like these.

This is going to be a terrific event that all Korean food lovers from around the world can participate in. Around the world! Yes, I’m serious!  : )

A total of 20 winners will be selected and the winners will get prizes from Sempio and Assi. 10 winners will be selected by our esteemed judges and 10 will be chosen by your votes!  To enter, all you have to do is to upload a photo of Korean food made with my recipes.

Categories

1st category – People’s Choice: The prizes will be sent to the winner’s house by Sempio
This category opens today!
Submit a photo here. Submissions will be open until Sep 25 (12:00 midnight EST), and then I’ll open the gallery to voting on Sep 27. The winners will be determined by popular vote.

2nd category – Judges’ Selection: The prizes will be sent to the winner’s house by Assi
This category is already closed!
I’m going to choose 50 photos from my photos page and submit them to a panel of judges. They’ll choose 10 winners. I’m going to choose the 50 photos from the most active cooks, photos that really lingered in my head for a couple of days and the most favored by my flickr readers.

An important message regarding winners

The purpose of this event is to encourage all people who love Korean food to cook at home and share their food with their friends and family.

I wish I could give all participants a prize, but I can’t! I want to pick the winners as fairly as I can but some points are impossible. We can never know if the winners’ food is really delicious or not. Maybe someone who didn’t win made the most delicious food. And maybe your camera is not great, so your photo is not great.

I know that there are limitations to this kind of contest. What I’m saying is that please please don’t get discouraged even if you are not a winner. Promise me! : ) You should always be proud of your food, and enjoy it with the people at your table.

If you’re interested in learning how to take better food photos, our judge Andrew Scrivani has some great articles on The New York Times Diner’s Journal about food photography including How to Take Photos of Food and Four Manual Settings You Need to Know for Shooting Food. His Q&A sessions (#1 & #2) also have lots of tips.

Judges

Soo-Jeong Kang
was born in Seoul, Korea before moving to the US at age nine. She has her degree in photography from Parson’s School of Design and has been working in publishing as a photo editor for 20 years. She was a photo editor for New York Magazine, US News and World Report, and Newsweek and was the Director of Photography at Ladies’ Home Journal producing major food shoots before coming to The New York Times to become the editor of the Dining In, Dining Out section in 2002. She is currently photo editing, as well as producing multimedia pieces, for the Science and Health sections of the Times.
Soo-Jeong lives in Manhattan.

Pichet Ong
has been named one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America by Pastry Arts & Design and Chocolatier. His desserts, including those from Spice Market, RM, and 66, have garnered numerous “Best of” awards and he is a multiple nominee for the James Beard Award in several national categories. His work frequently appears in Bon Appétit, Food Arts, The New Yorker, Elle, New York Magazine, Time Out, People, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Out, Harper’s Bazaar, W, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He has been on Iron Chef America, Martha Stewart Live, CBS News, Emeril’s Live, and LX TV. Pichet’s cookbook, The Sweet Spot, has been hailed by The New York Times as “a standout and one of the most original dessert cookbooks in years.”
pichetong.com
spotdessertbar.com
villagetart.com
confessionsofasugarholic.tumblr.com

Andrew Scrivani
is a freelance photographer and blogger who makes regular contributions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek magazine. He is also the featured photographer in the new cookbook The Very Best of Recipes for Health by Martha Rose Shulman. Andrew writes about food and photography for The New York Times Diner’s Journal superblog and his own blog, Making Sunday Sauce.
andrewscrivani.com
makingsundaysauce.com
twitter.com/AndrewScrivani

Jeremy Zilar
is the Blog Specialist at The New York Times. Over the last four years, Jeremy has started over 160 blogs on nytimes.com. He works with writers and editors to shape and grow their blogs and assess the media and technical landscape they are a part of. He has also helped the Times embrace the culture of the web and adopt the tools and ethics of online publishing.
silencematters.com
twitter.com/silencematters

Prizes

Each category will have a grand prize, as well as a gold, a silver, 2 bronzes, and 5 runners-up.

Contest Rules

Are you interested in entering the contest?

Photos will be moderated, so please follow these 3 rules!

1. Your entry must be a photo of a dish made from a recipe on maangchi.com
   This is so that people looking at the photos can easily learn how to cook the item in the photo. Making modifications to recipes is ok, but please explain any substitutions in the photo comments, so we all can learn.
2. It must be your own photo
   Please don’t use someone else’s photo! : )
3. 2 photos per person
   Submit one or two of your best Korean food photos and make them good!

Photographers retain all copyrights, but allow the photos to be displayed on maangchi.com
You will always own your own picture, but I want to show it to people on my website.

Legal Disclaimer
The judge’s decisions concerning all matters related to this contest are final. Void where prohibited by law. Maangchi.com assumes no responsibility for late entries due to technichal issues. Shipping and postage will be paid for by Maangchi.com with sponsors’ help. Any tax, international or otherwise, related to the prizes is the sole responsibility of the winners.

1.what’s your name and where do you live?
My name is laury, and I live in rowland heights, California

2. what do you do and how many family members do you have?
well, I’m still currently a sophmore, but in June, I’ll be a junior in high school probably I’m the youngest fan you have ever had haha~ and there are only my parents and me in my family :)

3. how often do you cook korean food following my recipes?
all the time lol! I even print it out and bring it to the kitchen with me even though sometimes it’s a failure, it’s okay cause people learn from their mistakes hehe
you are right, Laurie! : )

gyeongdan

4. What are your favorite korean dishes? choose 3, please!
hmmm…that would be maejagwa (ginger cookies), bibimbap, and jajjangmyeon (black sauce noodles) <3

5.what’s your best korean dish, the one that everyone compliments you on when you make it?
ddukbokki lol. which is kind of funny cause that’s my boyfriend’s favorite food : )

I’ll be coming to Los Angeles for Chuseok this year. I miss my mom! I want to recharge my energy by talking and listening to my mom! : )

So I would like to meet some of my readers while I’m there. My last meetup in LA was 2 years ago, right?

Meetup

Date: Tuesday Sep. 21

Time: dinner time

Where to meet is not decided yet. Please email me if you have any good ideas where to meet or even what to do!  Email me at maangchi@gmail.com.

I’m excited to meet you!

Last time we met at a restaurant (Garden Grove) which was a lot of fun.

I’m looking forward to seeing you guys!

from Maangchi