San Baronto is a tiny mountain village in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany. Located at 349 metres above sea level, San Baronto offers you the peace and tranquillity that originally drew artists and musicians to this region for so…
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My very first encounter with Korean cuisine happened with Samgyetang 삼계탕. The words are easily understood in Chinese characters 蔘鷄湯, which means ginseng chicken soup. In East Asian culture, ginseng is like an elixir of life and a good wild…
Whenever I go on a long trip, I’d try to squeeze in a cooking class. Cooking classes are a great way to not only learn new dishes, but also experience the local culture and literally experience new tastes. In…
If you’ve had Korean table barbecue before, you’d appreciate how beautifully marinated the meat is and how the whole experience is a joyful, convivial family event. But if you haven’t tried KyungBokKung, then you cannot say that you…
Korea is really a seafood-lover’s paradise. You get fresh seafood, hauled in from the sea daily, and you pay only a fraction of the price you pay in Japan. You get equally good-grade sashimi and sushi here as in Japan,…
As part of the slow food movement in Korea, this chain of restaurant Bonjuk 본죽 本粥 that primarily serves rice congee is extremely popular throughout South Korea, it even has branches in the US. Juk 죽 粥 is an…
This is PART II of my stroll through the Changdeokgung 창덕궁 昌德宮. PART I is here.
Located in the old centre of Seoul, Changdeokgung 창덕궁 昌德宮 (UNESCO World Heritage Site) was built in 1405, as the second palace after Gyeongbokgung. While the first palace was built according to the perfect hexagram in Chinese geomancy where…
I stayed in Majung Haus for a couple of days in Seoul. Being alone, I did not want to stay in a hotel and I thought I’d be able to meet other travellers if I stayed in…
I was at first sceptical about this idea: boiled chicken in a big pot of soup. Surely it would taste wholesome, like when you are ill, but I wouldn’t call it an unprecedented idea. Oh boy I was wrong….
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