For this New Year’s Eve cocktail, Motsi suggests the Earl Grey gimlette. The Earl Grey gimlette reimagines the classic flavor and explores the age-old debate of how one should have one’s tea -- with or without milk? The bar adds an unconventional element in the form of milk pearl and Solomon’s Cordial, and adds a hint of cacao. Motsi hopes to dispel common misconceptions about cocktails through ...

Yoon’s eatery has also been selected as a Bib Gourmand restaurant, a Michelin recognition for good value and good quality, for five consecutive years starting from 2018. But despite the accolades, Yoon wants new customers to know that it is still a humble restaurant. The restaurant is open from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., seven days a week. By Kim Hae-yeon ( hykim@heraldcorp.com )

If you are hosting a dinner party, this Korean pork dish will definitely be delicious and memorable for your guests. Have a bossam party! You will love the taste and texture, and most of all, it’s fun dining together making bossam wraps with varying ingredients. What is bossam? Bossam is a popular Korean dish, consisting of boiled pork belly wrapped with napa cabbage leaves or lettuce, and serv...

Grand InterContinental Seoul presents ‘Christmas Cake’ Grand Deli, located on the ground floor of Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in southern Seoul, offers holiday cakes made by three master patissiers, including Kim Dong-woo, in charge of the hotel’s bakery team. Kim recommends three cakes for this year-end season -- chocolate tree mugwort cake with delicate mugwort cream on top of chocola...

The city promoted the festive atmosphere of Gangneung by illuminating at night the Ojukheon house, a historical site where Shin Saimdang (1504-1551), a well-known artist, writer, calligrapher and poet, and her son Yulgok Yi I, a prominent neo-Confucian scholar, lived. By Kim Hae-yeon (hykim@heraldcorp.com)

“Another intention we have for potential foreign consumers is to let the stories behind local products be heard, such as the origins and detailed production process of regional ingredients. Foreigners interested in the products would then naturally be willing to visit the local regions, getting to know the local areas of Korea better through food.” Choi added. The KTO further plans to form partn...

Ingredients • 6 chicken thighs boneless & skinless • 3 tbsp Korean chili paste (gochujang) • 1 tbsp Korean chili flakes (gochugaru) optional • 1 tbsp soy sauce • 1-2 tbsp light brown sugar • 1 tbsp minced garlic • 1 tsp ginger puree • 1 tbsp Korean corn syrup (mulyeot) • 1 tbsp sweet rice wine (mirim) optional • 1 tbsp sesame oil • 1/2 tsp black pepper • 5-6 Korean perilla leaves thin...

Andaz Seoul Gangnam launches ‘Guy’s Night Out’ Andaz Seoul Gangnam, a lifestyle hotel located in Apgujeong, is offering the “Guy’s Night Out” staycation package, featuring spacious luxurious accommodations in an Andaz Suite for up to four people. The package includes a special drink basket with Grey Goose vodka, four bottles of beer and a “Hangover Food Set” packaged with hangover-helper drinks...

More than 40% of 61 Bib Gourmand restaurants in Seoul serve noodle dishes

Small bakery serves pepper pretzels and salt butter stangen

JW Marriott Hotel presents ‘Go Bubbly’ promotion The Lounge, situated on JW Marriott Hotel’s eighth floor, presents the “Go Bubbly” promotion that provides unlimited servings of popular dim sum and small bites every Thursday. The selection of 11 dim sum creations includes har gau with soft skin and prawn filling, black pork shu mai made from tender Jeju-grown black pork, xiao long bao dumplings...

Korean stone pot (ttukbaegi): Ttukbaegi is a Korean earthenware made out of a type of clay and usually glazed inside for cooking purpose. Unglazed Korean earthenware (onggi) is mostly used to store food for fermentation. Cooking doenjang jjigae in a ttukbaegi retains heat very well, which keeps the stew hot longer. Without the interference from metallic surfaces on other kinds of cookware, ttukba...

Lim Veens, 29, who first encountered natural wine at a local bar two years ago, said he was attracted by the sense of “freedom” natural wine has over its conventional counterpart. “It has been sort of burdensome drinking conventional wine because I feel like I need to have knowledge about wine to enjoy them. Compared to conventional wine, natural wine was easier to start,” Lim said. “I also foun...

JW Marriott Hotel Seoul announces 2021 Autumn Wine Fair JW Marriott Hotel Seoul presents the 2021 Autumn Wine Fair showcasing wines from selected wineries in 11 countries across four continents at the Margaux Grill’s seventh-floor garden. Running for three days from Nov. 10 to 12, the wine fair will feature a wide selection, ranging from daily wines to fine small-batch cult labels and grand cru...

New York-style pizza joint expands to second location