Destination: South Korea

Passport & Plate - Korean chili braised pork with lemon cilantro rice

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 | By jangles | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

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Photos: Passport & Plate - Dakgalbi - Spicy Korean Chicken

Wed, 12 Mar 2014 | By smcwilliam | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

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im off again

Mon, 3 Mar 2014 | By kldavis1 | Views [402]

thanks to world nomads providing me with the superest travellers insurance i signed up again. just less than 24 hours i will begin my journey to bali, indonesia. who knows what im in for. not a clue. will find out when i get there i suppose! matt is ... Read more >

Tags: bali, indonesia

Photos: spring cleaning the mind and body: black bone chicken, tree-water & cress

Sun, 2 Mar 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Photo Gallery

spring cleaning the body and mind:

Sun, 2 Mar 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Views [463]

   The vernal Equinox is just on the horizon. The western calendar has it registered for arrival in Asia on the twenty-second day of March. But according to the traditional Chinese Lunar calendar, which is used similarly in Korea, Japan and ... Read more >

Tags: healthy foods from korea, spring time foods

End of Korea and Malaysia

Sat, 1 Mar 2014 | By eric_stahler | Views [310]

We arrived in kuala Lumpur yesterday after spending four nights in busan, the second largest city in Korea. For one thing, the weather was much better in the south of the country. We really enjoyed busan, maybe even more than Seoul, mostly because of ... Read more >

Photos: whale meat in Korea

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Photo Gallery

WHALE HO! in JANG.SAENG.PO

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Views [740]

  I write this journal entry not to elicit any ethical, moral or environmental debate over the business of whaling and/or the practice of eating whale meat. I am merely writing this piece to inform travellers that the culinary tradition of eating ... Read more >

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Photos: yungduk daegae

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Photo Gallery

AWAY FROM THE TOURIST TRAILS: EATING 'YUNGDUK DAEGAE' ALONG kOREA'S EAST COAST

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Views [424] | Comments [1]

  They come from the cold, deep waters of the North Pacific along Russia and Korea's eastern coastlines. They are big in size and plentiful in numbers during the winter months of January and February when it is a custom of many Korean people to ... Read more >

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Photos: Passport & Plate - Korean crab & shrimp bean paste stew

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 | By rogerinkorea | Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

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VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU? 2

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 | By countryboy | Views [696] | Comments [2]

It's very easy to make fun of another country simply because of a few cultural/linguistic differences.   So here we go.   The manicurist shop called Hand Job .   The Korean award clearly displayed in ... Read more >

First days in Phuket

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 | By thaibug | Views [306]

Been staying at a guest house, enjoying the warm weather and the freedom of not having an alarm to wake up to.   I landed in Phuket on Friday night.   My first laugh.....and my first cultural mistake.   I found the pick up man who was ... Read more >

VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU? 1

Tue, 3 Dec 2013 | By countryboy | Views [777] | Comments [4]

  VOULEZ DÉJÀ VU 1   I found Whore Street.   But more of that later.   Welcome back, gentle readers. Welcome back to the proper blog. We all know there's been a few entries ... Read more >

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Festival - Chuseok (??), a Harvest Festival

Wed, 6 Nov 2013 | By lastqueenofskye | Views [374] | Video | Scholarship Entry

It's September in South Korea. As the summer heat began to die down and the wind turned crisp, we could feel a tension in the air as the Harvest season drew near. This was the beginning of festivals, and the festival to start it all was the most important ... Read more >

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