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.
Today’s Seven-Eleven chef collaboration is the Hu Deok-juk Seafood Jjamppong. This Seven-Eleven seafood jjamppong comes from 7-SELECT, Seven-Eleven’s private-label brand for ready-made foods. It was made together with Chef Hu Deok-juk, a master of Chinese cuisine. A spicy jjamppong broth (jjamppong is a spicy Korean-Chinese noodle soup) comes with seafood ingredients. The chili oil is … Read more
Today’s new CU lunch box is a bunsik (Korean snack-bar food) combo, Tteoktwisun Bunsik Set. “Tteoktwisun” is short for tteokbokki, twigim (fried snacks) and sundae (Korean blood sausage). This September, CU released two lunch boxes built around bunsik, including this set. Today I’m reviewing the first of them, the Tteoktwisun Bunsik Set, which comes with … Read more
GS25, one of Korea’s major convenience store chains, has brought back an old favorite: theNumber One Chicken Lunch Box, a renewed version of the box that ranked first in cumulative sales from 2016 to 2018. I wasn’t blogging back then, so I barely remember whether this menu even existed. Ha. According to GS25, it’s back … Read more
Daegu’s Chimac Festival celebrates Korea’s beloved pairing of fried chicken and beer, and now one of its winning recipes has landed in convenience stores. CU’s new ready meal, the Avo Truffle Chicken, brings a festival champion to a lunch-box format. This year’s festival held a K-Chicken New Menu Contest, and the top prize went to … Read more
Emart24 has a lunch box line built entirely around meat called Yukha Wonchik. The name is the Korean term for the “5W1H” rule, and “yuk” also sounds like the Korean word for meat. Today’s pick comes from the line’s new ham ssam branch: the Ham Ssam Whole Garlic Jeyuk & Tongtong Soya. Much like CU’s … Read more