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 ftw!
My friend had a dinner recently for her closets friends. She had cook all Korean dishes. She knows we share the same taste in food and our love for k drama’s. dishes she made was off of your page and you tube video’s. SO I joined your page can’t wait to cook some of them. I want to learn to cook all Korean dishes so that i can open a restaurant.
I always love watching your videos and when I get an apartment next year, I hope to cook korean food alllll the time! I’m super excited and thanks for this contest~
I really love your recipe!!!! I moved here just after I got married. I learned how to cook from you!! Thank you sooo much~
Hello! I love your show and I love your recipes! I’d love to try and make them with the ingredient basket. Please choose me!
Hey, i follow you on youtube a lot, like foodwishes and bbqpitboys,
I’m a young chef from sweden who love cultural food and i’d like to expand my horizon within korean food, so a startup kit would be awesome =) might just throw up a video on youtube? who knows.
Best Regards, Julius.
hello, i love your videos, every time i find the right ingredients i try a recipe.
Can’t wait for the next one ^.^
Hi~ ^.^ Before I found your videos on youtube I was always afraid of making Korean food, even though it always looked so good on the dramas!! But now I have you, and your fantastic videos and recipies have helped me see that making delicious Korean food is something my mom, my sister, and I can do together and have a wonderful time~ :D Thank you so much Maanchi!
Hi Maangchi! I love watching your Korean cooking channel! I lived in Daegu, South Korea for 6 years and now I’m in Colorado for college! My family still lives back in Korea, and I miss my mom’s Korean food so much! I enjoy watching your videos because it makes me feel like I’m at home again :) I’ve been cooking Korean food for my boyfriend and I and he loves it too! I need some Korean ingredients and I hope I’m one of the winners! Thank you for all your hard work, it means a lot!! Good luck! :)
I would LOVE to win a kit! Thanks Maangchi and CJ Foods!
Love you and love your food!!!
Maangchi, thank you so much for demystifying Korean cooking! I really enjoy watching your videos and making your recipes – so does my family. Keep up the great work!
Hey Maangchi!!! I love ur site – U make the recipes so easy to follow. :D i would love to win the Korean Starter Kit, it would help me alot for what ingredients I can’t find – XD
I would love to win this start-up kit! I am new to exploring Korean cuisine – courtesy of Maangchi! – and am having trouble locating locally some of the ingredients I read about and want to try (yes, even at 99 Ranch). Thank you for this opportunigy, Maangchi!
Hi There,
Love to be like you travel around the world to learn new dishes!!
Hope i could get the set so i can make some fusion food~ =P
Cya
Helloo Maangchi ! :) Thank you so much for sharing your passion of Korean food to the world ! Whenever I’m out of ideas, I always go to your cooking blog to get inspired ! I cook a lot of Korean food therefore if I could win this kit, it’ll be so great ! <3 Thank you again !
I would love to try the Bibigo sauces! Congratulations on all your success, Maangchi!
Maangchi,
Your videos and receipes are really unique and different and very handy for this family of three who consumes, by preference, more Asian type food than the regular American cuisine. Our garden provides many types of herbs and ingrediants not found in the area super markets, and several Asian food markets provide a wide range of Korean and other Asian products to make our food preparation much more authentic and moreover healthy.
Thanks to you and CJ company, perhaps many more people will have an opportuity to experience the world of Korean cooking; there is nothing like it :-)
Hello from Singapore!
I hope I can win this set because I love experimenting with korean seasoning with my favourite food! =) Thank you for this opportunity and contest! =)
How exciting!!! More reasons to make your wonderful recipes. Thank you so much for sharing your secrets!
hello Maangchi.. i really loved watching your videos.. i learned in every videos that you posted. i hope that you will visit again philippines..
Hi! i am from Turkey and i really love Korean food i hope i win
What an amazing kit! I’d love to have one!!!! Congratulations on all the success!
안녕하세요 Maangchi!! I love watching your videos and trying out new recipes! I would love to win this startup kit by CJ so that I’ll have all the essentials on hand for my Korean cooking adventures~! Thank you Maangchi and the CJ company for bringing us this Contest!
Mommy Maangchi~~!!!! I want that CJ Starter Kit! <3 Pick me pick me pick me~!! o^-^o
안녕하세요 Maangchi씨?
It would be really cool to win this because my town is so small i can’t find anything useful. nevertheless, i tried some simple recipes and was delighted ^^
OMG!!! I’d be soooooo happy if I could get this!!!
We can’t get any Korean food here (no kimchi!!!!) – exept soy sauce
I could finally make so many of your recipes…or I’ll just keep your food somewhere safe and show it to guests when they come – I shall never use it!!! It’ll be so precious to me!
:D
Please, I’d be so happy if I got it…and I’m a begginer at cooking – so my husband will be happy if I make something new :D
Have a nice day <3
What a good idea! There will be some very lucky winners from this.
Love your videos, and site. They are super helpful! Keep the awesome Korean food coming!
Oh, wow! This is so cool! Anyone who wins this will be smiling from ear to ear! Is that gochujang I see? Let’s keep our fingers crossed! :D
Hello :) Thank you for bringing the idea of the giveaway up with the CJ staff :) It’s so nice of you to be thinking of your readers and sharing all the goodies with us :) Thank you :)
hello maangchi! I really love your videos and have learnt quite a few recipes from you! I especially like your recipes on jajangmyun, kimchi pancakes and tteokbokki! Hope that you will choose me so I can continue trying out more recipes! Thanks! :)
ooooh I wanna win this!….its too expensive to buy it all to start up :-(
Hello Maangchi! I used to watch your youtube video and learn the way of cooking Korean cuisine.
I want to make Korean food, but I couldn’t find the ingredients sometimes. I want to win this badly !!
really just leave a comment? just leave a comment ? leave a comment? a comment? comment ?awhhhhhhh ,seriously I need it for my Korean cooking !!! =D pray hard ….choose me….choose me…choose me…