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My blog about my life, Korean food, events, meetups, contests, interesting stories and updates from my lovely readers!

Korean readymade meal package winners!
August 31, 2020
Korean readymade meals giveaway!
July 29, 2020

From 2018

May 2018 Seoul Meetup
May 25, 2018
Making kimchi in Prague
April 30, 2018

From 2017

Maangchi’s 10th anniversary potluck party
May 9, 2017
How to shop at a Korean grocery store
April 30, 2017

From 2016

Food in Paris
December 15, 2016
How to cut up a whole chicken
October 7, 2016

From 2015

Lots of bean sprouts grown by my readers!
December 9, 2015
The Vance family gimjang
October 28, 2015
How to eat Korean BBQ
October 16, 2015
My book signing in Union Square farmer’s market, NYC
October 7, 2015
My cooking demo at the Decatur 2015 book festival
September 11, 2015
Maangchi on Lucky Chow PBS!
August 15, 2015
Judging the 2015 Global Taste of Korea contest
July 19, 2015
My recommendations for buying Korean ingredients online
June 13, 2015
Korean recipe index for Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking
June 9, 2015
Making bulgogi with The New York Times
June 3, 2015
You’re invited to my cookbook launch party!
April 28, 2015
Upcoming cookbook recipe videos
April 18, 2015
A typical Korean homestyle table setting
March 25, 2015
Homestyle Korean BBQ wedding reception
March 4, 2015
My Korean New Year’s Day
February 19, 2015
30 Korean side dishes on the table!
February 9, 2015
Tiffany made Korean fried chicken for 200 people!
January 30, 2015
My salt story
January 20, 2015
Laifa’s business with her Korean cooking
January 8, 2015

From 2014

36 hours in Philadelphia
May 27, 2014
2 million views on YouTube
March 16, 2014
Kimchi Making Day
March 5, 2014
New Years’ Day dishes from around the world
January 2, 2014

From 2013

Report from the LA meetup & potluck
November 21, 2013
200,000 YouTube subscribers
October 20, 2013
November 2013 Los Angeles meetup & potluck!
October 17, 2013
Where to go for Korean food & kitchenware in Koreatown, L.A.
August 20, 2013
Book Announcement!
August 2, 2013
Making kimchi on Sunday!
July 14, 2013
Judging the Korean food challenge at the Culinary Institute of America
June 30, 2013
Kimchi made with homegrown perilla leaves!
June 29, 2013
Chris’ Korean-language Dakbokkeumtang video!
June 19, 2013
Korean country style mugwort rice cake
May 20, 2013
Shannon, her mom, and me
May 12, 2013
My shopping in Mexico
March 30, 2013
Making kimchi before leaving for Mexico!
March 13, 2013
Stephanie and her children’s homemade manju!
February 27, 2013
Dolsot bibimbap for dinner
February 1, 2013
Sloppy meatball sandwich
January 25, 2013
Meju blocks
January 12, 2013

From 2012

Shenny’s homemade gochujang
November 21, 2012
Cookbook second editions and Kindle Fire
October 14, 2012
Feel the fall
October 9, 2012
Taste my kimchi meetup
August 21, 2012
Taste my kimchi!
August 13, 2012
On the Tasted channel
July 26, 2012
Fun night with my readers in Flushing!
July 13, 2012
Report from the spring picnic meetup in Connecticut
June 2, 2012
Foraging Myeongaju!
May 20, 2012
My new Korean vocabulary channel on YouTube
May 7, 2012
Springtime Korean Picnic in May!
April 25, 2012
Kira’s hoddeok video
April 23, 2012
Mugwort was waiting for me!
April 16, 2012
Maangchi and readers on Korean TV
March 13, 2012
Mommy, don’t forget I’m still a baby!
March 6, 2012
Gapshida Philippines
January 17, 2012
Gapshida Malaysia
January 2, 2012

From 2011

Gapshida Indonesia
December 24, 2011
CJ contest winners
December 23, 2011
Gapshida Singapore
December 14, 2011
Cooking, sharing, and sightseeing in Rotorua
December 5, 2011
Gapshida Rotorua
November 30, 2011
Going to Rotorua
November 22, 2011
Win a Korean cooking startup kit from CJ
November 17, 2011
Gapshida party in Wellington
November 10, 2011
Gapshida Wellington, New Zealand
November 6, 2011
Gapshida Sydney
October 30, 2011
Korean food party in Rotorua, New Zealand
October 29, 2011
Gapshida Copenhagen
October 21, 2011
Gapshida Rotterdam in Susanne’s house
October 16, 2011
Gapshida Rotterdam at Reinier’s house
October 13, 2011
Gapshida Amsterdam
October 11, 2011
Gapshida Canterbury
October 9, 2011
Gapshida! Packing, preparing, & flying to the UK
October 8, 2011
Leaving for my Gapshida journey
October 1, 2011
Lunch with the First Lady of Korea
September 21, 2011
Songpyeon rice cake
September 19, 2011
Heirloom tomato & Hooligan cheese platter
September 11, 2011
Gapshida itinerary announced!
September 6, 2011
What should I name my new cooking show?
June 19, 2011
Picnic with my readers
June 5, 2011
Reinier’s tuna pancake video
May 31, 2011
My YouTube Creator Camp experience
May 28, 2011
YouTube NextUp meetup
May 23, 2011
Going to YouTube Nextup Creator Camp
May 22, 2011
Let’s send Jamie Frater to Korea!
May 5, 2011
Bev and Chuck
April 29, 2011
My Korean cooking class on April 16, 2011
April 19, 2011
Some recent website improvements
March 26, 2011
Wild green onion pancake
March 24, 2011
Food, food in Mexico!
March 10, 2011
People in Mexico
March 3, 2011
Mexico, you are so colorful!
February 27, 2011
My shopping in Mexico
February 14, 2011
Leaving for Mexico
January 30, 2011
New Flickr accounts and my photos page
January 9, 2011
Babette’s Korean feast
January 2, 2011

From 2010

The food in Honduras
December 27, 2010
Photos from Honduras
December 21, 2010
My readers’ ojingeojeot (fermented squid)
December 17, 2010
My short trip to Toronto
December 14, 2010
Leaving for Honduras
November 19, 2010
Today’s Special
November 15, 2010
My readers’ 1 month project: making ojingeojeot
November 7, 2010
Field trip for Korean-Uzbek cuisine on Nov 6, 2010
November 5, 2010
Korean-Uzbek Cuisine
October 27, 2010
Korean food photo contest winners
October 18, 2010
Photo contest winners
October 17, 2010
Photo contest winners
October 17, 2010
Hurry up! Vote for the People’s Choice award!
October 13, 2010
The 28th Korean Harvest & Folklore Festival (presented by the Korean Produce Association of New York)
October 11, 2010
Maangchi’s meetup in California, Sep.21 2010
October 7, 2010
Voting for the food photo contest now opens
September 27, 2010
Photo contest judges’ selection finalists
September 26, 2010
Asian Feastival, Sep.6, 2010
September 7, 2010
Asian Feastival
August 30, 2010
Korean food photo contest
August 27, 2010
Meetup in Los Angeles
August 21, 2010
Photo contest
August 10, 2010
Mexican wife living with Korean husband and 5 children
August 5, 2010
Al ate samgak bap instead of samgak kimbap : )
July 26, 2010
My trip to Minnesota for “Passport to Korea”
July 18, 2010
Going to “Passport to Korea” in Minnesota
July 2, 2010
New York kimchi contest report – June 26, 2010
June 29, 2010
Getting my permit at Prospect Park
May 30, 2010
New York Kimchi Contest
May 26, 2010
Improved Korean Grocery Shopping Directory
May 23, 2010
Maangchi on FaceBook
May 22, 2010
The Asian American Association of Time Warner discussion panel
May 16, 2010
My April 22, 2010 Korean cooking class in New York
April 26, 2010
My interview with Voice of America radio
April 18, 2010
Ramps (wild garlic)
April 13, 2010
Unexpected short meetup in Baltimore
April 9, 2010
Korean food video contestants
April 1, 2010
Uh oh! Hoddeok! : )
March 19, 2010
Maangchi.com nominated in Saveur’s 1st Annual Food Blog Awards
March 11, 2010
The Korean government’s YouTube video recipe contest
March 7, 2010
Scenes from Costa Rica
March 2, 2010
Kalguksu meetup!
February 28, 2010
Costa Rican Food I ate
February 25, 2010
Costa Rica trip: Introduction
February 23, 2010
Leaving for Costa Rica
February 9, 2010
Leaving for Boston
February 6, 2010
My class at Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center on Jan.30, 2010
January 31, 2010
Maangchi in Korean media
January 27, 2010
Update: Jia xin still loves her mom’s jjajangmyeon!
January 20, 2010
What’s happening to Maangchi these days?
January 11, 2010
Andrew Fraser’s maejakgwa
January 9, 2010
Flickr panic
January 2, 2010

From 2009

Alex is spreading Korean food to the world!
December 20, 2009
Guatemala: Oh, people! people!
December 12, 2009
Guatemalan local markets and scenery
December 7, 2009
Guatemalan food
December 3, 2009
Guatemalan trip : Introduction
December 1, 2009
Going on vacation!
November 12, 2009
Report from Maangchi’s New Jersey shopping meetup
October 26, 2009
Jeff makes hobakjeon
October 23, 2009
Yay! I’m a winner of the competition!
October 13, 2009
Maangchi meetup – Korean grocery shopping in New Jersey
October 6, 2009
Dinner with Philip Gowman
October 3, 2009
Hwajeon desktop wallpapers
August 30, 2009
New section on my website devoted to fans
August 22, 2009
Buying perilla leaves
July 27, 2009
BBQ picnic in Catskills
July 12, 2009
Report from the New York meetup
June 22, 2009
June 20th 2009 NYC meetup
May 24, 2009
A reader who lost 42 kilograms on a Korean diet!
May 17, 2009
Introducing Maangchi’s cooking class
April 20, 2009
Reinier’s Korean cooking
April 6, 2009
Planning my Korean cooking class
March 23, 2009
Photos from my LA Meetup
March 5, 2009
LA Meetup
February 4, 2009
Clyde’s jjamppong
January 12, 2009

From 2008

2008 Toronto Meetup
December 21, 2008
Toronto Meetup
December 3, 2008
My second cookbook is published
November 29, 2008
Chinatown shopping list
November 12, 2008
Sushi
November 1, 2008
Maangchi is in Joongang Daily
October 21, 2008
My jjajangmyun recipe is updated!
October 11, 2008
Tokyo Mart
October 5, 2008
Lunch with Mila
September 28, 2008
Lower East Side Pickle Festival in New York
September 23, 2008
Rainsh01 making bibimbap
September 1, 2008
Hagi sake bar
August 31, 2008
New Korean cooking forum!
August 30, 2008
hot and spicy baby octopus dish
August 28, 2008
My favorite pizza place
August 25, 2008
Some changes to my site
August 11, 2008
twitter
August 10, 2008
Maangchi Meetup
July 27, 2008
Maangchi’s New York Readers’ Meeting
July 23, 2008
Korean perilla in soy sauce (Kkaennip-jangajji)
July 11, 2008
Korea4me’s Korean cooking
July 6, 2008
Maangchi moves to Manhattan
June 29, 2008
Korean street food
June 22, 2008
James’ stir-fried squid
June 8, 2008
Ask Aida
May 31, 2008
Silkfan making bimbimbap
May 8, 2008
Clyde makes doenjang jjigae
April 26, 2008
My Korean home cooking DVD
March 16, 2008
Letter from C
March 9, 2008
My Korean home cooking cookbook
March 8, 2008
James’ soondubu jjigae
March 7, 2008
Squid from Korea
February 10, 2008
Agasuka’s bibimbap
January 21, 2008
Trip to NYC
January 5, 2008

Maangchi's recipes by category:

Kimchi
Essential Korean dish
Side dishes
Banchan makes the meal
Rice
Our most important grain
Pancakes
Savory & simple
Rice cakes
Tteok for every occasion
Stews
Jjigae is our comfort food
Noodles
Long noodles = long life!
Soups
Guk at every meal
Sundubu-jjigae
Soft tofu stew
Gimbap
Seaweed paper rolls
Desserts
Special sweet stuff
Main dishes
Consider these mains
Mandu
Korean dumplings
Anju
Drinking food
BBQ
The Korean way to grill
Fried chicken

Double-deliciousness
One bowl meals
Nutritious & convenient
Street food
Quick & fun
Easy
Anyone can make these!
Lunchboxes
Dosirak made with love
Appetizers
These could be first
Fermented
Taste of centuries
Staple ingredients
Korean cuisine basics
Mitbanchan
Preserved side dishes
Pickles
Quick-brined
Spicy
I love spicy food :)
Nonspicy
There are plenty!
Beef
For meat lovers
Seafood
Surrounded by the sea
Pork
Some new dishes to try
Chicken
Our most delicious
Vegetarian
No fish, meat or chicken
Vegan
No animal products at all
Temple cuisine
From Buddhist temples
Korean Chinese
Chinese style Korean
Snacks
Quick dishes on the run
Korean bakery
Breads & pastries
Porridges
Good for your health!
Cold dishes
Icy, cold, or just chilled
Drinks
Fruits, grains & herbs
Not Korean
Fusion and western food

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