One important part of Korean cooking is its variety of soups. Culturally, we’ve stressed the importance of a soup to go alongside our main dishes and side dishes. Among the many different offering we have, I decided to recommend a Soybean soup. Typically, newly-wed brides in Korea learn this dish first because of its relative simplicity and […]

This one is my absolute favorite. My childhood can be easily explained with this dish: my mother’s fried kimchi rice. Now, you all might have heard of Kimchi, Korea’s “national” food. If you haven’t, here’s a link that explains the general idea behind this very healthy dish. Also, many people are already familiar with fried rice […]

Last weekend my roommate, from China, and I went to make hot pot, a traditional “Chinese” dish. To explain simply, all one has to do is put raw ingredients on a stick and boil it in the flavored “pot”. This asian dish has been spread around East Asia and has many different variations in Korea and Japan. However, as […]