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 pulling restaurant chefs into their lunch aisles, and Seven-Eleven has been one of the most persistent about it. The chain works with Chef Jung Ho-young on Japanese food and Chef Hoo Deok-juk on Chinese food, and it has been rolling out new items steadily. This time it is Chef Jung Ho-young’s … Read more
Budae jjigae, the sausage-and-ham stew born in postwar Korea, keeps finding new formats, and the latest is a convenience store lunch box. CU has just added Budae Bokkeum Jeongsik to its Pbick single-dish line, which carries on from the chain’s earlier one-item trays. As Pbick gets tidied up, more of these single-dish boxes keep appearing. … Read more
Bibimbap is about as fundamental as Korean food gets, which makes it a useful test of any convenience store’s kitchen. CU’s newest lunch box is the Pbick Bulgogi Bibimbap. With the Pbick line’s overall renewal now largely finished, the new two-tier double meal set arrived first and older items are gradually being refreshed behind it. … Read more
Extreme-heat challenge food has become its own genre in Korean convenience stores, and Seven-Eleven keeps raising the bar. Today’s pick is the Michin Mandu Fried Rice, an unusual concept built with Michin Mandu, or “crazy dumpling,” from the Cheongju restaurant Ibi Jeulgeoun Geu Mandu. Ever since the Dijinda Donkatsu, Seven-Eleven seems to be investing heavily … Read more
Korean convenience stores have quietly turned mala xiangguo into an everyday meal, and Emart24 has been leading that shift. Today’s pick is the Chef Park Eun-young Deossen Yeoshin Mala Xiangguo, whose name roughly means “the stronger goddess.” It is an upgraded take on the Yeoshin Mala Xiangguo, a light and easy mala dish that has … Read more