KOREAN FOOD REVIEW & RECIPE - PAKOC
Korean Recipes & Food Reviews : Discover Authentic Korean Cuisine with PAKOC
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.
Health-angled lunch boxes have become a regular fixture in Korean convenience stores, and CU has built out that shelf since its The Healthy Diet line. Today’s pick is CU’s new low-sugar high-protein chicken breast dosirak, a dosirak being a Korean packed meal. This time CU teamed up with the Seoul city government, of all partners, … Read more
Single-dish lunch boxes are the budget backbone of Korean convenience stores, and CU keeps iterating on them. Today’s pick is CU’s new 4900 Kimchi Jeyuk Jeongsik, jeyuk being spicy stir-fried pork. It’s the Pbick version of the single-dish line CU has run for years. Word was that the Pbick relaunch bumped up the portions across … Read more
CU has been rolling out a seasonal bibimbap line all year, building each release around whichever vegetable is at its peak. The newest one is the Buchu Geotjeori Bibimbap, built on buchu, the garlic chives Koreans use in everything from pancakes to soups. The line started with spring cabbage earlier this year, then ran through … Read more
Korean convenience stores keep finding new ways to dress up a lunch box, and Seven-Eleven’s latest answer is a whole new line built around one humble item: a tray of seasoned laver. The line is called Seonneomgim, a pun that roughly means “the gim that crossed the line,” and its debut menu is the Seonneomgim … 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