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Maangchi’s blog about Korean food, origins, tastes, ingredients, events, and interesting stories and updates from my wonderful readers. Have an interesting story about something you made from my recipes? Let me know!

  1. Maangchi’s 10th anniversary potluck party

    May 9, 2017

    Maangchi's 10th anniversary

  2. How to shop at a Korean grocery store

    April 30, 2017

    Korean grocery store walkthrough

  3. Food in Paris

    December 15, 2016

    local grocery

  4. How to cut up a whole chicken

    October 7, 2016

From 2015

  1. Lots of bean sprouts grown by my readers!

    December 9, 2015

  2. fresh kimchi

    The Vance family gimjang

    October 28, 2015

  3. Korean BBQ pork belly

    How to eat Korean BBQ

    October 16, 2015

  4. Maangchi book signing

    My book signing in Union Square farmer’s market, NYC

    October 7, 2015

  5. Maangchi cooking at the Decatur Book Festival

    My cooking demo at the Decatur 2015 book festival

    September 11, 2015

  6. Lucky Chow

    Maangchi on Lucky Chow PBS!

    August 15, 2015

  7. maangchi

    Judging the 2015 Global Taste of Korea contest

    July 19, 2015

  8. My recommendations for buying Korean ingredients online

    June 13, 2015

  9. Korean recipe index for Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking

    June 9, 2015

  10. New York Times shoot

    Making bulgogi with The New York Times

    June 3, 2015

  11. You’re invited to my cookbook launch party!

    April 28, 2015

  12. Upcoming cookbook recipe videos

    April 18, 2015

  13. Korean "bapsang" table setting

    A typical Korean homestyle table setting

    March 25, 2015

  14. Brian and Josh

    Homestyle Korean BBQ wedding reception

    March 4, 2015

  15. My Korean New Year’s Day

    February 19, 2015

  16. 30 Korean side dishes on the table!

    February 9, 2015

  17. Tiffany made Korean fried chicken for 200 people!

    January 30, 2015

  18. My salt story

    January 20, 2015

  19. Laifood

    Laifa’s business with her Korean cooking

    January 8, 2015

From 2014

  1. 36 hours in Philadelphia

    May 27, 2014

  2. 2 million views on YouTube

    March 16, 2014

  3. Kimchi Making Day

    March 5, 2014

  4. New Years’ Day dishes from around the world

    January 2, 2014

From 2013

  1. Report from the LA meetup & potluck

    November 21, 2013

  2. 200,000 YouTube subscribers

    October 20, 2013

  3. November 2013 Los Angeles meetup & potluck!

    October 17, 2013

  4. Where to go for Korean food & kitchenware in Koreatown, L.A.

    August 20, 2013

  5. Book Announcement!

    August 2, 2013

  6. Making kimchi on Sunday!

    July 14, 2013

  7. Judging the Korean food challenge at the Culinary Institute of America

    June 30, 2013

  8. Kimchi made with homegrown perilla leaves!

    June 29, 2013

  9. Chris’ Korean-language Dakbokkeumtang video!

    June 19, 2013

  10. Korean country style mugwort rice cake

    May 20, 2013

  11. Shannon, her mom, and me

    May 12, 2013

  12. My shopping in Mexico

    March 30, 2013

  13. Making kimchi before leaving for Mexico!

    March 13, 2013

  14. Stephanie and her children’s homemade manju!

    February 27, 2013

  15. Dolsot bibimbap for dinner

    February 1, 2013

  16. Sloppy meatball sandwich

    January 25, 2013

  17. Meju blocks

    January 12, 2013

From 2012

  1. Shenny’s homemade gochujang

    November 21, 2012

  2. Cooking Korean Food with Maangchi: Books 1, 2, & 3

    Cookbook second editions and Kindle Fire

    October 14, 2012

  3. Feel the fall

    October 9, 2012

  4. Taste my kimchi meetup

    August 21, 2012

  5. Taste my kimchi!

    August 13, 2012

  6. On the Tasted channel

    July 26, 2012

  7. Fun night with my readers in Flushing!

    July 13, 2012

  8. Report from the spring picnic meetup in Connecticut

    June 2, 2012

  9. myeongaju

    Foraging Myeongaju!

    May 20, 2012

  10. My new Korean vocabulary channel on YouTube

    May 7, 2012

  11. Putnam Park

    Springtime Korean Picnic in May!

    April 25, 2012

  12. Kira’s hoddeok video

    April 23, 2012

  13. Mugwort was waiting for me!

    April 16, 2012

  14. Maangchi and readers on Korean TV

    March 13, 2012

  15. Mommy, don’t forget I’m still a baby!

    March 6, 2012

  16. Gapshida Philippines

    January 17, 2012

  17. Gapshida Malaysia

    January 2, 2012

From 2011

  1. Gapshida Indonesia

    December 24, 2011

  2. CJ contest winners

    December 23, 2011

  3. Gapshida Singapore

    December 14, 2011

  4. Cooking, sharing, and sightseeing in Rotorua

    December 5, 2011

  5. Gapshida Rotorua

    November 30, 2011

  6. Going to Rotorua

    November 22, 2011

  7. Maangchi

    Win a Korean cooking startup kit from CJ

    November 17, 2011

  8. Gapshida party in Wellington

    November 10, 2011

  9. Gapshida Wellington, New Zealand

    November 6, 2011

  10. Gapshida Sydney

    October 30, 2011

  11. Korean food party in Rotorua, New Zealand

    October 29, 2011

  12. Gapshida Copenhagen

    October 21, 2011

  13. Gapshida Rotterdam in Susanne’s house

    October 16, 2011

  14. Gapshida Rotterdam at Reinier’s house

    October 13, 2011

  15. Gapshida Amsterdam

    October 11, 2011

  16. Gapshida Canterbury

    October 9, 2011

  17. Gapshida! Packing, preparing, & flying to the UK

    October 8, 2011

  18. Maangchi at JFK airport

    Leaving for my Gapshida journey

    October 1, 2011

  19. Lunch with the First Lady of Korea

    September 21, 2011

  20. Songpyeon rice cake

    September 19, 2011

  21. heirloom tomato

    Heirloom tomato & Hooligan cheese platter

    September 11, 2011

  22. Gapshida!

    Gapshida itinerary announced!

    September 6, 2011

  23. What should I name my new cooking show?

    June 19, 2011

  24. Picnic with my readers

    June 5, 2011

  25. Reinier’s tuna pancake video

    May 31, 2011

  26. My YouTube Creator Camp experience

    May 28, 2011

  27. YouTube NextUp meetup

    May 23, 2011

  28. making sweet red beans

    Going to YouTube Nextup Creator Camp

    May 22, 2011

  29. Let’s send Jamie Frater to Korea!

    May 5, 2011

  30. Bev and Chuck

    April 29, 2011

  31. My Korean cooking class on April 16, 2011

    April 19, 2011

  32. Some recent website improvements

    March 26, 2011

  33. Wild green onion pancake

    March 24, 2011

  34. Food, food in Mexico!

    March 10, 2011

  35. People in Mexico

    March 3, 2011

  36. Mexico, you are so colorful!

    February 27, 2011

  37. My shopping in Mexico

    February 14, 2011

  38. Leaving for Mexico

    January 30, 2011

  39. New Flickr accounts and my photos page

    January 9, 2011

  40. Babette’s Korean feast

    January 2, 2011

From 2010

  1. The food in Honduras

    December 27, 2010

  2. Photos from Honduras

    December 21, 2010

  3. My readers’ ojingeojeot (fermented squid)

    December 17, 2010

  4. My short trip to Toronto

    December 14, 2010

  5. Leaving for Honduras

    November 19, 2010

  6. Aasif Mandvi,

    Today’s Special

    November 15, 2010

  7. My readers’ 1 month project: making ojingeojeot

    November 7, 2010

  8. Field trip for Korean-Uzbek cuisine on Nov 6, 2010

    November 5, 2010

  9. kuksu

    Korean-Uzbek Cuisine

    October 27, 2010

  10. Korean food photo contest winners

    October 18, 2010

  11. Photo contest winners

    October 17, 2010

  12. Photo contest winners

    October 17, 2010

  13. Hurry up! Vote for the People’s Choice award!

    October 13, 2010

  14. The 28th Korean Harvest & Folklore Festival (presented by the Korean Produce Association of New York)

    October 11, 2010

  15. Maangchi’s meetup in California, Sep.21 2010

    October 7, 2010

  16. Voting for the food photo contest now opens

    September 27, 2010

  17. Photo contest judges’ selection finalists

    September 26, 2010

  18. Asian Feastival, Sep.6, 2010

    September 7, 2010

  19. Asian Feastival

    August 30, 2010

  20. Grand prize

    Korean food photo contest

    August 27, 2010

  21. Meetup in Los Angeles

    August 21, 2010

  22. Photo contest

    August 10, 2010

  23. Mexican wife living with Korean husband and 5 children

    August 5, 2010

  24. Al ate samgak bap instead of samgak kimbap : )

    July 26, 2010

  25. My trip to Minnesota for “Passport to Korea”

    July 18, 2010

  26. Going to “Passport to Korea” in Minnesota

    July 2, 2010

  27. New York kimchi contest report – June 26, 2010

    June 29, 2010

  28. Getting my permit at Prospect Park

    May 30, 2010

  29. ft. hamilton subway

    New York Kimchi Contest

    May 26, 2010

  30. hot pepper paste

    Improved Korean Grocery Shopping Directory

    May 23, 2010

  31. Maangchi on FaceBook

    May 22, 2010

  32. The Asian American Association of Time Warner discussion panel

    May 16, 2010

  33. My April 22, 2010 Korean cooking class in New York

    April 26, 2010

  34. My interview with Voice of America radio

    April 18, 2010

  35. Ramps (wild garlic)

    April 13, 2010

  36. Unexpected short meetup in Baltimore

    April 9, 2010

  37. Korean food video contestants

    April 1, 2010

  38. Uh oh! Hoddeok! : )

    March 19, 2010

  39. Saveur's blog awards

    Maangchi.com nominated in Saveur’s 1st Annual Food Blog Awards

    March 11, 2010

  40. The Korean government’s YouTube video recipe contest

    March 7, 2010

  41. Scenes from Costa Rica

    March 2, 2010

  42. Kalguksu meetup!

    February 28, 2010

  43. Costa Rican Food I ate

    February 25, 2010

  44. Costa Rica trip: Introduction

    February 23, 2010

  45. Leaving for Costa Rica

    February 9, 2010

  46. Leaving for Boston

    February 6, 2010

  47. My class at Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center on Jan.30, 2010

    January 31, 2010

  48. Maangchi in Korean media

    January 27, 2010

  49. Update: Jia xin still loves her mom’s jjajangmyeon!

    January 20, 2010

  50. What’s happening to Maangchi these days?

    January 11, 2010

  51. Andrew Fraser’s maejakgwa

    January 9, 2010

  52. Flickr panic

    January 2, 2010

From 2009

  1. Alex is spreading Korean food to the world!

    December 20, 2009

  2. Guatemala: Oh, people! people!

    December 12, 2009

  3. Guatemalan local markets and scenery

    December 7, 2009

  4. Guatemalan food

    December 3, 2009

  5. Guatemalan trip : Introduction

    December 1, 2009

  6. Going on vacation!

    November 12, 2009

  7. Report from Maangchi’s New Jersey shopping meetup

    October 26, 2009

  8. Jeff makes hobakjeon

    October 23, 2009

  9. Yay! I’m a winner of the competition!

    October 13, 2009

  10. Maangchi meetup – Korean grocery shopping in New Jersey

    October 6, 2009

  11. Dinner with Philip Gowman

    October 3, 2009

  12. Hwajeon desktop wallpapers

    August 30, 2009

  13. New section on my website devoted to fans

    August 22, 2009

  14. Buying perilla leaves

    July 27, 2009

  15. BBQ picnic in Catskills

    July 12, 2009

  16. Report from the New York meetup

    June 22, 2009

  17. June 20th 2009 NYC meetup

    May 24, 2009

  18. A reader who lost 42 kilograms on a Korean diet!

    May 17, 2009

  19. Introducing Maangchi’s cooking class

    April 20, 2009

  20. Reinier’s Korean cooking

    April 6, 2009

  21. Planning my Korean cooking class

    March 23, 2009

  22. Photos from my LA Meetup

    March 5, 2009

  23. LA Meetup

    February 4, 2009

  24. Clyde’s jjamppong

    January 12, 2009

From 2008

  1. 2008 Toronto Meetup

    December 21, 2008

  2. Toronto Meetup

    December 3, 2008

  3. My second cookbook is published

    November 29, 2008

  4. Chinatown shopping list

    November 12, 2008

  5. Sushi

    November 1, 2008

  6. Maangchi is in Joongang Daily

    October 21, 2008

  7. My jjajangmyun recipe is updated!

    October 11, 2008

  8. Tokyo Mart

    October 5, 2008

  9. Lunch with Mila

    September 28, 2008

  10. Lower East Side Pickle Festival in New York

    September 23, 2008

  11. Rainsh01 making bibimbap

    September 1, 2008

  12. Hagi sake bar

    August 31, 2008

  13. New Korean cooking forum!

    August 30, 2008

  14. hot and spicy baby octopus dish

    August 28, 2008

  15. My favorite pizza place

    August 25, 2008

  16. Some changes to my site

    August 11, 2008

  17. twitter

    August 10, 2008

  18. Maangchi Meetup

    July 27, 2008

  19. Maangchi’s New York Readers’ Meeting

    July 23, 2008

  20. Korean perilla in soy sauce (Kkaennip-jangajji)

    July 11, 2008

  21. Korea4me’s Korean cooking

    July 6, 2008

  22. Korea4me making bulgogi

    July 5, 2008

  23. Maangchi moves to Manhattan

    June 29, 2008

  24. Korean street food

    June 22, 2008

  25. James’ stir-fried squid

    June 8, 2008

  26. Ask Aida

    May 31, 2008

  27. Maangchi came back home

    May 26, 2008

  28. Silkfan making bimbimbap

    May 8, 2008

  29. Maangchi’s Korea visit

    April 30, 2008

  30. Clyde makes doenjang jjigae

    April 26, 2008

  31. My Korean home cooking DVD

    March 16, 2008

  32. Letter from C

    March 9, 2008

  33. My Korean home cooking cookbook

    March 8, 2008

  34. James’ soondubu jjigae

    March 7, 2008

  35. Squid from Korea

    February 10, 2008

  36. Agasuka’s bibimbap

    January 21, 2008

  37. Trip to NYC

    January 5, 2008