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CU convenience store has turned a viral Korean social media food hack into a ready-to-heat product: the Buldak Cheese Seaweed Pasta. The original trend was buldak (Korean fire chicken sauce) combined with miyeok (seaweed/wakame) in a broth-style noodle, and this adapts that concept as a pasta with cheese. Heat level is more approachable than standard … Read more
Hello! Today’s new Emart24 lunchbox is the Tuna Bibimbap from the “Tteunjohap” line. This line builds new menus around recipes trending online. I’ve only grabbed a couple of them so far, so I can’t say what the rest are like, but this debut pick feels pretty light. Haha. Is tuna bibimbap having a moment lately? … Read more
Korean convenience store chain CU has been pushing its lunchbox game hard, and the latest pickup is the Bap-banchan-ban Hamburg Steak from the Pbick The Kitchen lineup. The name translates roughly to “half-rice, half-side-dish,” and the concept fits the lineup’s identity perfectly: nail at least one part of the meal properly. The headline here is … Read more
Hello! Today’s new CU lunch box is the very first item in CU’s Pbick The Kitchen series — the Bap-ban-chanchan-ban Donkatsu (half rice, half side dish pork cutlet). CU launched its private brand lineup Pbick in mid-2025, and has since expanded it into the dosirak (lunch box) category with an aggressive wave of new releases … Read more
Hello. Today’s new Emart24 lunchbox menu is the Kats Immersion Lunchbox from the Yukha-wonchik lineup, which is packed with meat. It is a multi-dish lunchbox released with the concept of enjoying several kinds of katsu in one meal.
From my perspective as someone who eats convenience store lunchboxes often, it has been nice to see the overall quality improve lately. This one also delivered a solid level of quality, so it felt filling and satisfying. The value for money was decent as well. Now, let’s take a closer look at what’s inside.