◆ Vegan & vegetarian food guide for Korea ◆ Eating like a local ◆ K-food culture and Korean food language ◆
As a follow-up on last year's post "What you need to know about seaweed" (aka "Seaweed 101"), here is more information about Korea's edible seaweed! In this post, "Diverse delicious seaweeds of Korea's seas" [Can you pronounce this tongue twister? 🤪] or in short "Seaweed 102", you can learn about various other seaweeds in Korean... Continue Reading →
Do you love the smell of the sea? 🌊 Or do you dislike that "fishy" smell? 🐟 Any thoughts on seaweed? 🌿 Nori seaweed (gim 김) and other marine organisms on a rock exposed during low tide. Bogil Island (보길도), 2018. Seaweed.... 🤔 Funny name to begin with, right?! Another name for it is algae,... Continue Reading →
🖤 Black is chic. 🕶 Black is cool. 🎩 Black is always fashionable. Now, black FOOD is the new black. And if this hasn't already been news to you...There's so much more black food besides Oreo cookies!* While in many parts of the world, activated charcoal powder is a rising star among natural food colorants,... Continue Reading →
Vegan sushi (chobab 초밥) with slices of gonyak. This is no regular sushi! 🍣 This is vegan sushi. What is that translucent topping? 😶 Doesn't it look like slices of squid or some other type of seafood? It's a vegan jelly produced from the root of a plant scientifically called Amorphophallus konjac. This kind of... Continue Reading →
Sesame Sprinkles 