Insam Festival
After our tour of Wine Korea, we stopped at the Geumsan Insam Festival. Insam is the Korean word for ginseng. Ginseng is a popular herb available in many different forms…
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Bulgogi
Bulgogi a word heard often here in Korea. It literally means “fire meat” and refers to how the meat is cooked rather than the type of meat itself. There is…
Dodamsambong
This past Sunday, a friend and I went on a tour offered by the travel service on our military base. The tour consisted of three stops: Dodamsambong, Kosu Cave, and…
Insadong, Seoul
We’ve switched over to an iMac this year and I’ve been working on importing and organizing all of our photographs from the past ten years. It’s a big task but…
Cartoon Restaurant Signs
Cartoon signs are very common here, especially on restaurant signs. I snap photos of them once in a while and have a little collection going. Notice how many of these…
Sashimi in Busan
After arriving in Busan and checking into our hotel, we walked around the Haeundae Beach area for a while. It was a beautiful, warm night and there were tons of…
The Meat Restaurant
There is a restaurant in our town called the Meat-Restaurant that provides a unique and fun eating experience. It is a buffet-style restaurant but not exactly the type of buffet…
Black Rice
While in the Korean supermarkets, I always hit up the pasta aisle and the rice aisle because of the wonderfully different varieties of both that are available. On a recent…
Festival Eats and Treats
There were a lot of interesting things to see at the Hangang Yeouido Spring Flower Festival in Seoul! There were many food vendors set up selling unique foods that I’ve…
Live Octopus Dinner
Earlier this week I went with some of my coworkers to a new octopus restaurant in town. It is a restaurant that serves primarily octopus in a variety of forms.…