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18 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
This is one of my original creations and it's always a hit at parties. People often ask me for the recipe. Well, here it is for the world to partake! The backbone of this dish is katsuobushi, which are shavings of dried smoked bonito (a type of tuna)...
16 Aug 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
While it's cliché to say "they go together like X" to describe the sweetest, most endearing, enviable and nauseating couples, we can at least make the cliché itself less nauseating by being creative with what we choose for X -- and the list is long!...
13 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
While this recipe might not seem very Chinesey, it is certainly common amongst the rotation of daily soups in a Chinese family. It's so simple, yet satisfying and cleansing. Normally, there's a piece of lean pork a bit smaller than the size of a fis...
12 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments AncientCulture
One of the best ways to learn about ancient cultures is by watching movies, but you should always be careful as movies are often romanticized by the movie industry, something I can't complain about as it makes movies so interesting, and sometimes the...
11 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments AncientCulture
Introduction How is his personality? What were his greatest achievements? And, the most importantly: Who does he remind you of? These questions will be answered in the text below. Hermes can be described as a kind of mixture of the gods O...
11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Chinuck
While working at a Japanese restaurant, I once commented to the chef that Japanese are very creative inventors. He thought that Japanese don't invent anything, but are good at copying other people's inventions and improving on them. While I think Ita...
10 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drew Binsky
DO YOU LIKE FAST FOOD? If so, then you'll know that no country does it better than the USA... I am guilty of loving fast food myself, and I crave it so much when I am abroad 11 months of the year. So when I am home, like right now, I am usually eati...
10 Aug 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Drew Binsky
KOREAN - best cuisine on earth? I think YES! Many of you may not know that I lived and taught English in Seoul for 2 years (from 2013 - 2015), which is how I got started with travel blogging, which led me to making videos. Not only is Seoul the most...
9 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Chinuck
Fire up the grill because we need to cook the person who came up with this terrible pun! Or, you can fire up these shiso kebabs which I think would be much tastier. Ingredients 12 shrimp 12 shiso leaves a few strips of kanpyo -- Kanpyo is a dried g...
8 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I recently watched Less Than Zero for the first time in decades. Supposedly, Bret Easton Ellis wasn't in love with the film when it came out, but I think it's a classic. One of those perfectly-cast snapshots of the time in which it was made that so...
