KOREAN FOOD REVIEW & RECIPE - PAKOC
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Hands-on reviews of Korean convenience store meals from CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 — lunchboxes, kimbap, ready-to-eat dishes, cup noodles, and desserts. Honest verdicts on taste, price, calories, and which Korean CVS items are worth a try.
Korean convenience stores keep pushing their ready meals further, and today’s pick is a great example: Emart24’s new cheese budae bokkeum meal, made in collaboration with Ttangs Budae-jjigae. Convenience stores have released plenty of budae bokkeum (army stew stir-fry) lunches before. What makes this one stand out is the tie-up with Ttangs Budae-jjigae, a takeout … Read more
Korean convenience stores keep expanding their lunchbox lineups, and today’s pick is CU’s new Assorted Ham & Chicken Bulgogi Double Set. It’s been a while since I reviewed CU’s PBICK double set line. As a double set with two main dishes, this one pairs assorted ham (made up of sausages and pressed ham) with chicken … Read more
Hello! Korean convenience stores roll out stamina dishes every summer, and this year the muggy heat arrived early, so the boyang (restorative) menus started landing fast. Today’s pick is CU’s new lunch box, the Grilled Eel Set — CU’s first summer stamina dosirak, built around a whole eel over rice. It looks basic, yet it … Read more
Hello! Today’s new lunchbox is the Legendary Honey Combo Tteokbokki & Tuna Mayo, a tie-in between Emart24 and a hit Korean army-cook drama (a webtoon-based series). Quite a mouthful of a name, right? As the show took off, each convenience-store chain rolled out its own collab item. The lineup here doesn’t seem to have much … Read more
Hello! Today’s new instant food from Seven-Eleven is the Hu Deok-juk Korean-Rice Crab Nurungji, made in collaboration with Chef Hu Deok-juk. Seven-Eleven’s collaborations with Chef Hu Deok-juk have gone beyond lunchboxes and gimbap, and now reach into instant foods too. Surprisingly, keeping this Chinese-style collaboration going for quite a while seems to be doing better … Read more