Blueberry Crepe Cake
Many Korean bakeries and pastry shops make fantastic birthday cakes. While a bit expensive, they include tall candles, matches, and a plastic cutting knife upon request. A complete birthday set!
Prices for premium cakes range from 20,000-40,000Won (approx. $20-40). My favorite is green tea cake.
Grilled Shellfish
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BBQ Shellfish – 조개구이 (jogae-gui)
조개 – shellfish
구이 – barbeque/BBQ
I found a great BBQ shellfish restaurant in Suwon City, Gyeonggi-do. The price was 17,000Won per person with unlimited refills of shellfish.
An interesting article from the Korea Times on the growing trend of restaurants called upper-dining. These mid-tier restaurants fall somewhere between high-end and casual restaurants and offer value, taste, and a comfortable environment for a reasonable cost.
From the Korea Times.
Good news for Korea’s expanding overseas book markets and international online bookstores. With warehouses in the US and other markets, Korean publishers can reduce shipping time from 10+ days to less than 2 days.
Korea Times:
Korea Times
Seoul Selection’s international website.
Seoul Selection USA website. Also available at Amazon.
Easy to Learn Korean 785 – Apartment Repairs and Maintenance (Part Two)
Easy to Learn Korean 785 – Apartment Repairs and Maintenance (Part One)
Easy to Learn Korean 742 and 743 – Fried Chicken
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I found this new snack that I like called Fried Chicken Drumsticks at the local supermarket in Seoul this week.
Fried Chicken – 닭 튀김 (dak twigim) or 후라이드 치킨 (literally the English words ‘fried chicken’-huraideu chikin)
They taste like fried-chicken flavored crackers and remind me of Pepperridge Farm’s Goldfish crackers, if you know those. The crackers are wrapped in aluminum foil inside of a small red box that’s strikingly similar to a takeout chicken box. It only costs 900Won (less than $1USD) and is actually worth trying. Real Korean-style Fried Chicken is one of my favorite foods and this definitely reminds me of that.
There are several ways to say chicken in Korean:
1.닭 – chicken
2.닭고기 – chicken meat
3.치킨 – literally the English word ‘chicken’
All three of these can be used for chicken meat. Here, 닭다리 (dak-dari) means ‘chicken leg, or chicken drumstick.
