Korea
Chocolate Cake with Kimchi – Crazy Combo
How do I know chocolate cake goes well with kimchi? Simple. There is sweet and bitter in the chocolate cake. Then there is spiciness, sour and salty on the kimchi. It tickles all your senses in your tongue. The soft texture of the chocolate cake should go well with the crunchiness of the kimchi. Recipe: …
Lotte Pepero Stick Biscuit and Chocolate
Another example of these slender dieting sticks. Just like the last and last last ones, this is as slender and should be as effective. But this one has a picture of a rather non-slender bear in the package, which may give out confusing signals. Is that supposed to illustrate the bear before or after eating …
Top Gourmet Kimchi
Spicy food is normally associated with cultures in warmer climate and nearer the equator. India, Central America, Sichuan in China, South East Asia and Korea. Korea? It’s always been a mystery to me why Koreans love spicy food. There is an explanation on the internet that says that Koreans eat spicy food when they are …
Pepero Lotte Peanut and Chocolate Biscuit
This is an alternative to the classic YanYan biscuits from Meiji that was a childhood favourite. The part that is missing from these alternatives is the dipping in chocolate part. These sticks are quite good. Crunchy sticks of biscuits, slightly salted, coated in chocolate with crushed peanuts. What can go wrong? Nothing. It’s good and …
Hite Extra Cold Beer
Hite. Is it pronounced like high-tea or more like hit-there? Nobody knows. What is ice point filtration system? No idea. Apparently, it’s the way of keeping temperatures low when the beer is processed. Well, it’s the first Korean beer that I’ve tried. I don’t see many Korean beers, so I didn’t set any high expectations. …
No Brand Butter Cookies
What do you do when you cannot decide on your brand name? Well, simple. It’ll end up having no brand. Yes, literally, it’s called ‘No Brand’. These are butter cookies from Korea. And you can tell that their makers have zero creativitiy because this biscuit is called ‘No. 2’. I guess they couldn’t think of …