Lotte Hotel will hold “Restaurant Super Week,” inspired by the New York City Restaurant Week which offers a chance to dine at some of the finest restaurants at a discounted price from Aug. 13-19. The Restaurant Super Week will be held at Lotte Hotel Seoul, Lotte Hotel World, and Lotte Hotel Ulsan. Flagship restaurants like Pierre Gagnaire Soul (French), Mugunghwa (Korean), Toh Lim (Chinese), and Peninsula (Italian) will be participating in this event and offer “Super Week Tasting Menu” composed

Yakgwa is a type of cookie made by kneading wheat flour with sesame oil, honey and refined rice wine. It is pressed into a square mold, or flattened with a mallet and cut into a square. It is then fried in oil and dipped in honey. This is the most luxurious and tasteful traditional Korean cookie. It is served on festive days, at ceremonial feasts and memorial services. Ingredients● 1 cup and 8 tbsp wheat flour (medium viscidness), 2 tbsp sesame oil ● Honey cookie seasoning: 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp

ORLANDO, Florida ― Imagine a bowl of steaming soup with succulent morsels severed from the tail of a cruelly slaughtered manatee.It sounds awful but isn’t far-fetched. Sharks are served in restaurants around the world in fin soup, even though about one-third of the 450 species are threatened with extinction. And there’s no way for diners to know the type of shark they are consuming.To find that out, shark-attack survivors associated with the Pew Environment Group, working with the Discovery Chan

“The Lounge” and “Salon de The” at Lotte Hotel Seoul are serving “Royal English Tea Set” and “Champagne Afternoon Tea Set.” The afternoon tea set menus serve delicious pastries prepared by a pastry chef working with three-Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire. Pastries include ginseng and pear glass, sable Breton berry, chocolate mousse cake, lemon tart, marble cake, orange financier, macaron, scone, chocolate, and assorted sandwiches. The Royal English Tea Set offers a choice of coffee or tea, ser

The hotel’s restaurant The Garden presents “Summer Mediterranean Seafood Barbecue Promotion” from Aug. 2-31. Offering fresh seafood and natural ingredients like tomatoes, olive oil, fruits, nuts, grains and cheese, the menu is rich in nutrition and taste. The Mediterranean seafood barbecue dinner buffet includes garlic buttered grilled king prawns, king crab stew marinated in citron and thyme, lamb steak garnished with fresh summer peach chutney, and 40 other dishes all prepared and grilled by t

The hotel presents “Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day) Package” giving major discount to guests who purchase the hotel’s early bird promotion by the end of August. The package offers the lowest price of the year. The package consists of a one-night stay in a superior room, two movie tickets at Megabox Central and access to the hotel’s fitness club and swimming pool. Visitors may also enjoy shopping at Shinsegae Department Store in Gangnam directly connected to the hotel through underground passag

The hotel recently completed a full guest-room renovation and is now offering a range of relaxing summer packages from Aug.16-Sept.5. The “Cool Package” provides a one-night stay in a deluxe room and free access to the gym as well as its swimming pool. The “Healing Package” offers a one-night stay, breakfast, gelato ice cream and free access to the sauna. The “Family Package” for families of three or more, presents one night in the Grand Suite Residence, breakfast buffet, ice flake “patbingsu” a

The hotel’s Zoe Bar presents a cocktail promotion with its famous bartender, Ssami. Ssami has won the “Green Day Midori New Recipe Seminar & Bartender Contest” for two consecutive years in 2011 and 2012. He will also compete in the World Cocktail Competition’s Bartender Contest, which will take place in Prague in 2013 as Korea’s representative. Guests may enjoy the “Fresh Breeze,” the prize winning cocktail of the 2012 contest, and “Day of Heaven,” the prize winning cocktail of 2011 as well as a

Gegamjeong is a stew made of blue crab and red pepper paste. In olden days, it was often served on the king’s dining table. The delicate crab flesh and spicy soup give gegamjeong a unique taste. The crab is tasty and nutritious, and there is a saying, “Travelers should not look at the blue crab.”Ingredients● 2 bodies blue female crab ● 120 g beef (minced top round) ● Seasoning sauce: 1/2 tsp clear soy sauce, 1/2 tsp minced green onion, 1/4 tsp minced 1/2 tsp sesame salt, 1/8 tsp ground black pep

Add Bing’s milkshake-inspired, red bean-free bingsu is a tasty, dessert hybridBingsu is the summer dessert of the nation. At legendary bingsu spots, people will wait in droves for a bowl of those cold flecks of shaved ice, topped with sweet red beans. In Busan, one can even enjoy this dessert at street stalls, where it is made on the spot and served up in quaint little bowls. In short, bingsu is a ubiquitous treat and can be easily found in most cafes and bakeries around this time of year. While

Security camera footage from a pizza restaurant in Louisiana in the U.S. purports to show the existence of ghosts. Lori Evans, an employee of Stocky’s Pizza in Haughton, Louisiana, discovered that objects were not in the place she left them the night before.She said: “When I came in the next morning, I found both of these ice scoops across the room over on the floor, the Tabasco sauce hidden behind the back, out there (on the kitchen floor).”When she checked the security camera, she saw objects

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Rarely exported Japanese Kobe beef made its way to Hong Kong dining tables Friday as supermarkets and high-end restaurants started selling the previously exclusive Japanese culinary delicacy.Hong Kong is only the second foreign market after the nearby Chinese territory of Macau to receive exports of officially certified Kobe beef, the industry’s marketing association said.“The response has been overwhelming ― most of our stock has been sold out in a few hours,” Taste supermarke

With global population and food prices rising rapidly, humankind may have to depend on some unconventional food supplies like insects in the future, according to a report on BBC magazine.“Rising prices mean we are now starting to see the return of meat as a luxury. As a result we are looking for new ways to fill the meat gap,” said food futurologist Morgaine Gaye during an interview with the magazine. “Things like crickets and grasshoppers will be ground down and used as an ingredient in things

The hotel is offering a lucky draw to guests who visit the Chinese restaurant Hong Yuan and buffet restaurant Aria from July 9-Sept. 3. Lucky draw winners will get a free trip to Phuket and accommodation vouchers from the hotel. Guests can get a lucky draw entry coupon and participate every time they visit Aria or Hong Yuan during the event period. The lucky draw will be held twice, first on Aug. 3 and again on Sept. 3, and prizes include two nights’ accommodation in the executive room at the We

The Deli, a European-style delicatessen at Grand Hyatt Seoul, presents a selection of healthy yogurts as desserts for summer available until Aug. 8. The desserts are designed by Beat Loeffel, Grand Hyatt Seoul’s executive pastry chef. They come in different flavors such as orange, raspberry, fig, mango, strawberry and blackberry. The price of the yogurts begins at 5,500 won, excluding tax and service charges. For more information, call (02) 799-8167.