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!




Ooh, these would be great when I cook Korean. Although we have Korean supermarkets and grocery stores in Kuala Lumpur, selling Korean cooking ingredients, it’s quite a distance from my house, so I seldom go to that part of town. This will be like heaven sent!.
What a great idea, I hope someone in need wins!
Your videos are so great and really informative.
Hallo Maangchi…
Waaooow looks great!!!!!!!! :)
I’m starting progress my Korean’s food till then!
Thx a lot for yummy Korean receipt that u showed us through youtube of this site..
I enjoy it so much, and you’re so pretty cute too anyway! :)
And really awsome and great opportunity that finnaly I can met you in real life face to face at Gapshida in Rotterdam, Netherland!, Yeaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!! :))
Great day, great food and off course met some nice people, specially you!!
I wanna win tooooooooooooo Maangchi..hihihihi :))
Keep doing ur work Maangchi!!! :)
All The Best!
Sweet & warm regards from me to you!! :)
xxx
hellooo^^ if u come to italy pls step by^^
Hi Maangchi! I’m a new reader of yours and was so excited to this giveaway! hopefully i can win the startup kit, hehe C:
OOoo, what a fun giveaway! Thanks, Maangchi! Keep up the great work!
You are grea!!t My family loves you and would just love to win this kit.
Thank you so much for showing the joys of cooking Korean food.
Hello maangchi:) I’ve been watching your korean videos for about awhile now. I enjoy watching them. I would love to win a startup kit from Cjfoods . Thanks !
i’ve been learning Korean cuisine for the past year.
sure looks like a great gift basket!!
crazy about those Korean flavors!!
hi there maangchi! i so love to win it. this would be a great Christmas treat for my family. noche buena with korean foods! i hope i would be lucky!
Would absolutely LOVE this! I love to cook Vietnamese… especially the challenge of doing Pho from scratch and rolling spring rolls just right. And Indian food… nothing like homemade biryani! I would like to expand my horizons to Korean food and this would be a great jumping off point! *fingers croseed*
Hi there Maangchi, really nice to meet you at youtube which i learn alot of korean delicious food from you. I’m really appreciated and hope to learn more from you!
In my country, there isn’t any korean grocery stall so sometimes i need to use chinese ingredient to twist it. Hope i can receive this gift and enjoy the real korean taste!…
Hope to hear from you!
Have a nice day and smile!!
I would LOVE to win this!
Since I’ve been a huge Korea Food fan so far… But I’m not very lucky in winning prizes :(
ToT~
I really want to win.
I have to travel 3 hours with by plane to mainland Europe to get to the nearest store that sells korean ingredients.
thank you, Maangchi, for your recepies! I learn how to cook on your videos.))
Sorry, I meant city :P
Wow, it would be so amazing to win! I live in a small southern country so it’s hard to access any of this stuff…
Mangchi! I am so grateful that I found you here. I have been using your recipes, and have so much success. Thank you! Hope I could have win these items.
Hi Maangi,
I <3 you! I really have enjoyed you on Youtube!
Count me in for this contest! Pick me! XD
MAANGCHI!PLEASE PLEASE choose me!!!!! i m like your biggest fan!! i watch all your videos!! i want to cook!!~~ ><~~
Hi Maangchi!
Love your videos. Can not wait to try the new products. Hope I am one of the twenty lucky winners:)
Your shows are interesting, informative, and fun – plus you cook great! And you are so totally cool… what else can I say? You are my Korean chef sensei!
Maangchi I absolutely adore you!!!! You are so funny and your recipes are super easy and absolutely authentic and delicious!!!!!! I fell in love with korean food years ago when I lived in LA and now that I live in Italy I misssssssss it sooooooooooo much! Thank God one day I found your website and was able to start making my own yummy food that I crave! Please pick me so I can continue making all my favorite recipes and try new ones!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
Hi, oh i’d love to win!:)
Lets see if I have lucky yeahhh!!!
hello Maangchi…it’s really great idea and good opportunity for those who love korean food…plz keep me ….:))
i relly love ur web site and already made so many korean foods( but not sure about the taste) as sometimes couldn’t find ingredients
<3 Love korean cuisine!!! ")
Hello Maangchi.
I have followed your site for over a year, and have already tried 1/3 of your recipes.
Cooking is my break from the humdrum reality, and Korean cuisine appealed to me because it is spicy. And such I like. I am looking forward to new recipes that will satisfy my hunger. \(=*_^=)/
Hello Maangchi! I want to try all your recipes! So hopefully i can get this awesome set of ingredients! Happy cooking !!! :)
This comment will be a winner.
I love learning the recipes that you share with us. Thank you for the opportunity to try some of the recipes you have shown us!
Hi Maangchi, this looks like an amazing startup kit!
<3 Maangchi!