Tag: dongdongju
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Craving kimchi
It’s strange the things you find you miss when you’re not there anymore. I never, in a million years, thought kimchi would be something I missed. And yet, I found myself, last week, really, really wishing for some proper, hot, crunchy kimchi. It wasn’t even a specific nostalgia moment. Some days, for example, I really…
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Dreams of kimchi-land
“We live, as we dream – alone…” Joseph Conrad There is nothing quite like travelling alone to a foreign country to isolate one. This is not to say that I haven’t been loving every moment of seeing friends and family since returning. It’s amazing to see everyone but it also a reminder of how experiences…
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Silkworms in a can
Koreans eat some pretty strange things. Dog, probably the most well-known, can still be obtained although it is restricted to special restaurants, is rather expensive and is consequently unlikely to show up in your bulgogi. Some of the snack foods seem to freak the foreigners out even more.