KOREAN FOOD REVIEW & RECIPE - PAKOC
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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
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
Korean convenience stores keep piling more onto their lunch boxes, and lately the high-protein angle has become its own category. Today’s pick leans all the way into it: Emart24’s new Chicken and Egg Meal. Going by the full lineup, only the “high-protein” part really applies, while the low-sugar and low-carb ideas don’t have much to … Read more