The Ratatouille dish, popularised by the hit Pixar movie of the same name, is classically a low-frill French peasant dish. To the contrary of my first impression of the dish from the movie, "wow look at all the pepperoni!", it's made without meat, for the olden-time French families who cannot afford meat.  Nit-pickers would say this isn't a true ratatouille, and they wouldn't be half-wrong. A Ratatouille is a traditionally...

Don't get me wrong, Oxtail soup and porridge's fine for breakfast and all that, but sometimes a guy craves something a little richer. And that's how we found ourselves at Bongchu Jjimdak in Myeongdong, getting some of their hot chicken stew.  We almost couldn't handle the heat even at 'mild', but the stew was so fragrant and delicious, we polished off the food. There's something irresistible about these soft potatoes...

Our breakfast hunt the next day brought us to Kalguksu Noodles & Dumplings Shop. Their menu was limited to four specialties: Kalguksu (knife noodle soup), Bibimguksu (spicy noodles), Mandu (Korean dumplings), and Kongguksu (cold soybean soup). Each noodle bowl was hugeeee, and we love how silky the knife noodles are. The bibimguksu, on the other hand, really lived up to the name. It was cold,...