Cantonese cuisine at Lotte Hotel SeoulLotte Hotel Seoul’s Toh Lim will be inviting Chef Lau Kwok Wai of Fook Lam Moon, the best Cantonese haute cuisine restaurant in Hong Kong, for a gourmet promotion from April 21-24. The promotion will feature popular dishes such as the sauteed abalone with black beans and peppers and baked stuffed crab shell with onions and fresh crab meat. The six-course lunch menus are priced at 138,000 won and 158,000 won. The eight-course dinner menus are priced at 195,00

Cloudy Bay wine festival at Millennium Seoul HiltonMillennium Seoul Hilton Hotel is presenting New Zealand’s Cloudy Bay wines at Cafe 395 during April and May. Having produced its first wine in 1985, Cloudy Bay is a still young but rapidly rising winery that has brought acclaim to New Zealand’s Marlborough wine region. The wines offered are part of Cloudy Bay’s Rare Nature series, a collaborative endeavor with artist Flox (Hayley King) that celebrates the country’s natural environment and the st

Famous Hokkaido dessert brand lands in Korea

Here’s a quick and easy Korean side dish you can make with spring asparagus. Simply blanch the asparagus and dress with a sweet and vinegary gochujang (Korean red chili pepper paste) sauce, called cho-gochujang. Cho-gochujang is used in various dishes. It’s also popular as a dipping sauce for vegetables and seafood such as squid and raw fish (saengseon hoe). Everyone makes the sauce a little differently, but the key ingredients are gochujang, vinegar, and sugar. Adjust the amount of vinegar or s

Couple spa treatment at Sheraton Seoul D Cube CityThe Aequalis Spa at Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel is presenting a “City Couple Spa Treatment” event for couples who want to enjoy a relaxing spa break and a quick urban getaway from the stress of everyday life. The treatment will include a moisturizing, muscle-relieving body massage for two inside the couple treatment room, a romantic bath, glasses of wine, and a gift set from Elemis Quiet Mind Bath. The massage will last 60 minutes and the ba

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Sundubu jjigae is a stew made with uncurdled tofu. Here, the tofu is paired with kimchi and meat. You can use any meat you want. Mushrooms are a good substitute if you don’t like meat. For the best results, always use fully fermented kimchi to cook with. Also, if you have some salted shrimp (saewujeot) leftover from making kimchi, use a little to season the stew instead of salt. It adds a wonderful layer to the flavor. Keep a package or two of sundubu in the fridge and whip up this bubbling pot

Driving BMW Package at Grand Hyatt IncheonGrand Hyatt Incheon is presenting the Driving BMW Package from April 1 to June 30 for family guests to experience the BMW Driving Center during their stay. The Incheon BMW Driving Center, located in Woonseo-dong, is the first such center to be built in Asia and has a number of race tracks, exhibition halls and other venues. The package includes a one-night stay in a comfortable guestroom, breakfast for two adults and two children under 12, and free acces

Fans of Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in New York can now expect to get served sizzling, dry-aged USDA prime porterhouse steak on a tilted platter in classic fashion right in Cheongdam-dong, in the heart of Seoul.  Slated to open to the public on March 23, this is the dry-aged steakhouse chain’s first restaurant in South Korea.“Wolfgang’s Steakhouse started in 2004, and since then we’ve grown,” said Wolfgang’s Steakhouse managing partner Peter Zwiener at the South Korean launch press event on Wednesday

New York cafe chain opens first overseas store in Seoul

This recipe is a simple Korean-style dandelion salad, mindeulle muchim. Dandelion is a wild spring vegetable that is used various ways in Korean cuisine. It’s packed with vitamins A, B, C and D as well as minerals such as iron, potassium and zinc. Dandelion has been used in herbal medicine to treat infections and kidney, liver and stomach problems. Look for the ones that are young and tender. The salad is lightly dressed with a basic Korean sauce, which is slightly spicy, sweet and vinegary. I u

Millennium Seoul Hilton offers Spring package Millennium Seoul Hilton is offering a spring package promotion until April 5 in celebration of the upcoming spring season. The Deluxe Room package is priced at 190,000 won and the Premium Room package at 220,000. Both include a one-night stay for two and, for an additional fee of 50,000 won, breakfast for two at Cafe 395. The Executive Room package for 300,000 won offers breakfast for two with access to the Executive Lounge, where guests will be serv

White Day package at The Ritz-Carlton, SeoulIn celebration of White Day, The Ritz-Carlton, Seoul is presenting a romantic overnight package for couples. The “Berry Sweet” package includes a one-night stay in a Premier Suite and admission for two to the Club Lounge. The lounge will serve premium cuisine and a variety of beverages from breakfast and afternoon tea to a selection of evening drinks. Also provided are a bottle of sparkling wine and a dessert plate of fresh strawberries and chocolate s

With spring looming, major hotels in Seoul are greeting the new season with flavorful Asian cuisine prepared by some of the top chefs from Japan, Hong Kong and India. The Westin Chosun Seoul has invited Japanese chef Hideki Ishikawa, owner-chef of the Michelin three-starred restaurant Ishikawa in Tokyo, who will present his nine-course kaiseki cuisine made with fresh seasonal ingredients on March 20 and 21 at the hotel’s Japanese restaurant Sushi Cho. “The hotel is presenting the new food promot

This velvety smooth sweet red bean porridge is a great snack or dessert on a cold winter day. To make the porridge, the beans are cooked down until very soft. Then, the cooks traditionally mash the beans through a strainer to remove the skins to achieve a velvety texture. This process can be grueling, so you can use a shortcut. Puree the beans as fine as possible in a blender. It’s much easier, still results in a very smooth porridge and you don’t waste the nutritious bean skins. This porridge i