Korean Food

Sep 21, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments

Korean Street Food Recipes: Hoddeok

Hoddeok is a Winter street food in Korea that is slowly transitioning into year-round fare. In essence, it’s a fried yeast dumpling, flattened to a pancake, with sticky cinnamon sugar centre. From a brief trawl of vendors around Myung-dong, there seemed to be two versions: one fried in a sandwich

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Sep 17, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

US Department of Defense: The Best Brewers in South Korea

The best beer in South Korea is brewed by the US Armed Forces in Yongsan Garrison, dead in the centre of Seoul. The base itself is for all intents, a small American town, albeit an American hamlet with the purpose of keeping the North Koreans in North Korea. There’s a

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Sep 12, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Hite Exfeel-S: Alcoholic Colonic

Brewer: The Hite, South Korea Beer is not good for you. In large enough quantities, it has the invariable tendency to kill you and thus gussying it up as a health food defies explanation. Labeled as the “Stylish beer with fiber”, Korea’s Hite Exfeel-S attempts to market a beer that

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Sep 11, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 138 Comments

Korea: French fry-coated hot dog

If Coney Island witnessed the birth of the hot dog, Seoul in South Korea saw subsequent generations mutate into a an entirely new genus of animal. An animal coated in a skin of batter and french fries then presented deep-fried on a stick. After first witnessing this monstrosity on Newley

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