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You know what they say… baby steps.  These are my itty bitty steps as I get back to updating and posting again.  This was a recent dinner at EaT: An Oyster Bar, a restaurant specializing in Cajun/Creole food. Fried okra.  After I had okra for the first time in Greece, I vowed never to eat [...]

The Nines is a luxury hotel in the heart of downtown Portland. It houses two restaurants – Departure (modern Asian fare) and The Urban Farmer (a modern steakhouse).

What wonderful things can I say about Star Chef restaurant that hasn’t already been said by FatManSeoul or ZenKimchi?  I wholeheartedly agree with them – the restaurant is fantastic.  Yesterday, I was reading ZenKimchi’s blog and came upon his Star Chef post.  Since the food looked amazing, and we were going to be in the [...]

I met up with Barbara and Amy at 1:00pm yesterday at the Seoul Museum of Art.  Amy is a docent for the Chun Kyung-ja exhibition, and gives a guided tour in English at 1pm every Saturday and Sunday. Including me, there were seven of us on the tour, which lasted about 20 minutes.   For [...]

Last weekend, we went with Reardon to a tapas restaurant, El Plato.  It’s located on the side street across from “Tea Purple” in Hongdae.  Phone #: 02-325-3515.  The sign on the door said, “Taste Amazing Spanish Food.”  We knew not to get our hopes up, but you know what?  The food was DELICIOUS!  The cooks [...]

I had a delicious dinner tonight!  Who knew there were so many restaurants in Reardon’s neighborhood? This is the first time I’ve grilled chicken like this in Korea.  Usually at a restaurant, you grill pork or beef.  Chicken doesn’t seem to be a popular grilling meat.  Six chicken thighs were de-boned and marinated in a [...]

A couple days ago, Ras and I tore ourselves away long enough from the apartment to go downtown and have Chuncheon’s famous dakalbi (dakgalbi). Friends will know this is my favorite Korean food, and I don’t get a chance to eat it very often. The last time I had Chuncheon dakalbi was two and a [...]