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Category Archives: Food

Malaysia Trip Summary

Warning / promise: this post is morbidly obese with food imagery. Handy-dandy index of the gazillion Malaysia-related posts I made yesterday: Malaysia: My New Favorite Country Langkawi: a Beach Bum’s Paradise Our Adventures with the Non-fighting Irish Our Adventures with the Non-fighting Irish, part 2 On Traffic and Spaniards On Watermelons and Gods (This is [...]

Culinaria 12538

Several months ago, Eli and I randomly appeared on a segment on a Korean public TV cooking show. Basically, for those who can’t be bothered clicking on that link and traveling back in time to read my old word-vomit, the TV show features a chef who travels to different places in Korea and highlights different [...]

Savory Strawberry Pasta, attempt 1

I’m not sure what sort of witchcraft or chemical devilry is at work, but the strawberries available in Korea are suspiciously, absurdly sweet. I first discovered this in the dead of winter, when I picked up a box of strawberries from my local mart, and had no idea (and still have no idea) how that [...]

Spoiled Rotten

Since I arrived in Korea at the end of September, I’ve lost a lot of weight. Something that was tough to do back home, where my diet consisted of cheese, bread and microbrewery beer. I’d like to say that I’ve lost poundage due to something responsible such as “an exercise regimen” or “willpower,” but really [...]