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No Brand Burger has a habit of releasing things no other Korean chain would attempt, and the latest arrival, out in late July, is the No Brand Burger Berkshire K Katsu. It is the first burger from a Korean franchise built on Berkshire K, a premium black pork breed, giving you a thick pork cutlet … Read more
Today’s recipe is Kkwarigochu Spam Stir-Fry. Ever finish a batch of soy-braised beef or stir-fried anchovies and end up with a handful of kkwari-gochu peppers you don’t know what to do with? Toss them into a pan with Spam and it’s solved in one go. It’s a sweet-savory rice-stealer, so even family members who usually … Read more
Nashville hot chicken hails from Tennessee in the US, where fiery cayenne-spiked fried chicken is a local institution. Mom’s Touch, one of Korea’s biggest burger chains, first channeled that idea into its Nashville Hot Chicken Burger back in 2020, then discontinued it. Now it’s back in 2026 as the fourth entry in the chain’s “Back … Read more
Hello! Today’s new find from Emart24 is a collaboration with the budae-jjigae specialist Ttangs: the Cheese Budae-bokkeum Pasta. (Budae-jjigae is Korea’s “army stew,” and budae-bokkeum is the stir-fried, brothless version.) I’d recently reviewed Emart24’s earlier Ttangs collab, a budae-bokkeum, and was genuinely surprised at how well it captured the real thing, so the moment I … Read more
In the old alleys near Seoul’s Dongdaemun, dak-hanmari — a whole chicken simmered in a bubbling pot and eaten with chewy kalguksu (knife-cut noodles) — is a beloved comfort meal. Ottogi has now bottled that alleyway flavor into a pack: its new Dak-hanmari Kalguksu ramyeon. Chicken-broth ramyeon has been rare on Korean shelves lately, so … Read more