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South Korean food festival Taste of Seoul launched its third edition late last month with an awards ceremony at the Sebitseom Island convention centre in Seoul. The event, which ran from Sept 30 to Oct 6 and was organised by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, was the first citywide in-person gastronomy event of its kind since the start of the coronavirus pandemic,...

Paradox. at once super traditional, but super modern. im really seeing that play out in the food here. for dinner were having galbi, or braised short ribs and the korean dish bibimbap. chef chos versions are elevated and refined to their purest form. its clear that korea is evolving, but how? and where is it going next? >> walk me through the last 20 years of whats happened in korea. >> basically, from the 1950s, after the korean war, korea was quite a poor underdeveloped country, right. but ing...

My New Orleans Opening a new restaurant is never easy. Opening during a pandemic, well… Yet, throughout this crisis we’ve seen several startups take root across the pockmarked landscape of the New Orleans culinary scene. Among these is Cho Thai, a Thai restaurant that was well in the works before anyone had even heard about COVID-19. A partnership between chef Jimmy Cho (owner of Banana Blossom on the Westbank) and BRG Hospitality, Cho Thai provides a new platform for chef Cho to plate up a...