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!
I love all your videos. You make it look so easy!
Thank you for your website, Maangchi! I spent a year in Korea teaching English 5 years ago and I learned to love Korean food. When I came home I did a lot of Korean cooking for a while but it gradually dropped away. I’m now pregnant and this past week I started craving Korean food! I looked up some simple recipes and found your blog. I would love to win this package!
Good luck and keep going!
Becki
Hi Maangchi,
I love your videos! I really need to win this so I can make yummy Korean food with your recipes for my Korean boyfriend. Wish me luck!
Dear Maangchi, ♥ ♥ ♥
there is this wonderful, cute and cozy Korean snack bar across the Bonn university here in Germany that attracted me instantly. It is run by a Korean family, serving Jobchae, sushi, Bibimbap and other yummy Korean dishes. I love their food so much, I am driving back to Bonn 70km every weekend to eat their food.
I was searching for a Jobchae recipe and bumped into your website and I fell in love with you and your dishes. No misunderstandings… it’s the way you talk and how you present your wonderful cooking, that I fell in love with you. :P
Dear Mangchi,
I really hope to be your lucky winner and win your starter kit, so I will keep my fingers crossed from now on. Should I not win, I would still support you and watch your videos, so keep up the good work Maangchi. ♥ ♥ ♥
Hello Maangchi unni! I’m 17 and live in the netherlands.
I looove korean food and I often make it for family and friends.
We have some korean food available here, like kimchi! (yum)
But unfortunately not a lot, so I can’t make most of your recipes,
So I hope I can win this kit! :D Good luck with your actvities!
I went to Korea to experience the food and culture of the Korean people. I watch your videos to learn how to share delicious Korean food with my family. Thank you for being such a good teacher!
wow.. those are such great gift.. wish i got chosen so that i can cook the korean dishes by using real korean ingredient.. I ♥ korean food ^^
Oh MAN. I really hope I get this. It’ll be the greatest moment of my life (I never win ANYTHING EVER).
공유를위한 감사합니다! I hope my luck is able yo travel to where you are!! I love Korean food and even enjoy cooking them. Thanks Maangchi. :)
Hi Maangchi,
I’ve been visiting your website regularly, and I’ve tried many of your recipes. Sadly I live in Bulgaria where Korean grocery stores do not exist and I have had difficulties with the recipes that do need special ingredients.
Looking forward to the results.
Tova ne e BG!
I’m cheap, and also lazy.
*rumble rumble rumble*
And a little crazy.
Yay for the Starter Kit!
maangchi! this contest is awesome~ thank you!been a long time fan.
i love korean food so much! i’m a student so i don’t really have the ability to find these ingredients! i hope i’ll be lucky!
wah! really hope that i can win this korean startup kit! you are awesome!
hi maangchi,this is a msg fr. Hong Kong.
i hv.watched your videos for a long long period..
i love korea and i am addicted in korean food.
korean food is really healthy and i learn a lot fr your videos.
i dun ned to worry about the intake when i am in diet =]=]=]
hope that i can be one of the winner.
화이팅!!!!!!
best regards,
Siuthree
Hi Maangchi!
I love your videos and recipes! All of the ones I try turn out great, and my Korean friends say it tastes authentic and delicious. Now that the weather is colder, I think I will try some more soup and juk recipes.
Thank you so much!
Great competition! I’ve never won anything; so I hope this will be the first ^^
Japchae – YUM! – my favorite food – I REALLY need this startup kit!!!
Been watching form the early days.1st recipe I cooked, was the chicken wings could have eaten them all!!,but I shared.Never won a contest before besides BINGO.Jeff
Hello, Maangchi, i went to Korea on march this year for 5 days, we ate Korean food especially kimchi everyday, I love it very much and after I came back to hong kong, I bought the kimchi from the supermarket frequently. However, when I search the details about kimchi, I know all the Achuma can make the kimchi and it is much tasty, therefore I search on YouTube and found your video, it help me a lot, the video is very detail and simple, love it:) thanks a lot.
I work at a school with lots of Korean students. I always love the Korean food we have and would love to start making it myself!
May the luck be with me !
Your recipes are awesome! Thank you!
Dear Maangchi,
First for all i just want to say i’m so inspired by all your cooking and i always watched all your video on youtube i actually try to cook Rainbow rice cake and Korean fried chicken but Only you can’t get alot of korean ingredients here…i love Kimchi so much and i always go buy Kimchi at the store.. well thanks for the initiative and let us all learning to cooking great Korean food!
Love, Ben
Hiya Maangchi,
Hope to win the start up kit so that I can whip up more Korean dishes for my family!!!
Fighting!!!
maangchi i love your shows and food…… i try some times to make some of it but in my country- Israel ther is not korean shops so i cant get most of the ingrediance for most of the thinks i want to make…… the kimchi is just not the same with the things i make it here…..
to win this moch of ingredience can be the best thing hapend to me this year hhhhhh……
pleas maangchi keep on with the happines u give us and the grate foods we learn to make from u!!!!
감사합니다!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey Maangchi,
I love your videos on Utube So MUCH!! I ve watched every videos and keep tracking it every day, although u are actually not uploading the videos everyday. LOL… It was a pity that I didnt attend your Sydney meetup, hope you ll come back again. <3
All the best then.
Patty
안녕 maangchi! :)
I’m currently a student in University and winning this kit would be so great because we students need to be as fugal as possible ><!
I'm feeling lucky! :))
Wow! Great contest! I can’t wait to see your Gapshida videos too.
Ah, I love contests like this one^^
Like everybody else who likes to hang out on your site, I love korean food!!
Only, you can’t get alot of korean ingredients here in Norway..
So I don’t get many opportunities to make my own food…
Anyways, I love your videos!!
I’m feeling lucky!
Hi Maangchi, hope u r well….. i would love to win your set mamma mia…. if i won them really i wanna try cook Japchae, galbijjim, kimchi jigae and bibimbab…. mmmmmm yummy yummmyyyyy im crossing my fingers!!!!!!!…. wish you all the best from Italy
Great Idea Maagchi!
I got so inspired by your cooking and the cooking from my good friend in Korea Gunsoo Lim.
He helped me to find you.
I now grow Korean herbs in the Netherlands, to be able to taste the Korean culture, and I love it My neighbers ask me for the herbs that I grow, and I share that with them, they all love it. Most of them have tasted Kimchi, sesame leaf and Ssam.
So strange that our country has Chinese, Indian and Surinam food, and no Korean food.
I would love to have the starter kit, to be able to taste the full range of herbs and wonderfull flavours.
Lets bring Korean food to all countries !
Thanks for the initiative and learning us how to make great Korean food!
With best regards,
Bart J. Meijer,
Netherlands
Hi! I love kimchi.