KOREAN FOOD REVIEW & RECIPE - PAKOC
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Chuseok, Korea’s autumn harvest holiday, is also known as Hangawi, and GS25’s Lunch Box of the Month for September celebrates it with the September Hangawi Lunch Box. Back in August, GS25 also released a many-side box under its value-packed “Hyeja” lineup. This time, for the Chuseok holiday, it has refreshed its existing many-side box as … Read more
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