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South Korea

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2012

    Gung Ho Now Serving Lunch and Dinner in the Design District

    The other day we stopped into the Design District's new Gung Ho, a casual "San Francisco-style Asian" restaurant across the street from the fortress of Zynga. It's the first brick-and-mortar from Seoul Patch pop-up chef Eric Ehler, and we predict it will be insanely popular with the office lunch and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2012

    Beer and Music: The Bay Brewed Blends Some of the Best of Both

    Since events that mix cool music with fancy things to put in your body (like food or booze) are increasingly going to become the norm in S.F. -- this being a trend we're somewhat conflicted about -- we at least hope they'll be really good. Good like new music fest the Bay Brewed (put on by the folks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2012

    Peach Pairings: 4 Ways to Accentuate This Summer Fruit

    These days, my farmers' market routine begins with a systematic sampling of the peaches at every single stand. Donut peaches, white peaches, yellow peaches: Some may be just a bit juicer or a tad sweeter, but they're all pretty darn good. Restaurants around San Francisco are playing up the summer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2012

    Become a Hipster Pop-Up in 10 Easy Steps

    San Francisco is the king of hipster pop-ups. And we love it. Here's what you need to do to throw your fedora in the ring: 1. Put an egg on it: You can slap that free-range, olive-oil-fried egg on everything from burgers to bimbimbap. Eggs come from chickens, chickens are birds, and birds are painf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2012

    Presenting the Seoul Patch Sports Bar and Grill

    The Seoul Patch Sports Bar and Grill at Dear MomWhere: Dear Mom, at 16th and HarrisonWhen: Friday, July 20, 4 p.m to last call (around 1:30 a.m.)Cost: No cover, $10-$13 entrees, and $2-$4 appetizersThe Rundown: We knew Seoul Patch can do some killer Korean fusion. Turns out Chef Eric Ehler knows a l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2012

    Seoul Patch Wants to Show You What They've Got At Pop Up This Sunday

    Back in the Dogpatch: Seoul Patch Pop Up at SerpentineWhen: Sunday, June 24 from 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM (or until all the food is gone!)Where: Serpentine, 2495 3rd Street. Seoul Patch heads back to where it started to show how far it has come.Cost: No entry fee, entrees from $9 - $16The Rundown: Since i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Food Trucks and Celebrity Chefs to Celebrate Asian Heritage

    Organizers of the 8th annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, the largest gathering of Asian Pacific Americans in the country, promise the event will allow visitors from around the world to come together in the greatest cultural exchange humanity has yet come yup with: eating. A smorgasbord of f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    The Window @ Coffee Bar Announces a Month's Worth of Popups

    ​Last month, SFoodie mentioned that Coffee Bar was looking for popup vendors who wanted to sell food out of a window on the site of its forthcoming cafe. According to Nathan Downs, events coordinator for Coffee Bar, the Window's March schedule is now posted online -- and it looks packed.  Sta ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2012

    A Hole in the Iron Curtain

    ​Last month, SFoodie mentioned that Coffee Bar was looking for popup vendors who wanted to sell food out of a window on the site of its forthcoming cafe. According to Nathan Downs, events coordinator for Coffee Bar, the Window's March schedule is now posted online -- and it looks packed.  Sta ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 18, 2012

    Fresh Eats: Food Find: Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

    ​Last month, SFoodie mentioned that Coffee Bar was looking for popup vendors who wanted to sell food out of a window on the site of its forthcoming cafe. According to Nathan Downs, events coordinator for Coffee Bar, the Window's March schedule is now posted online -- and it looks packed.  Sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

    ​Four months after its debut, Seoul Patch, a lunchtime popup operating out of Rocketfish in Potrero Hill, continues to evolve. Chef Eric Ehler's been spinning out his original ideas -- all Korean-American culinary juxtapositions -- into new forms, bulking out the menu with new dishes (brussels spr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Seoul Patch vs. Reform Club Pop-Up Battle Royale

    Korean dramedy? Might we suggest the delightful, "Playful Kiss"?​What: Seoul Patch vs. Reform Club Where: Specchio When: Sun., December 4. Seatings 6-10 p.m. Cost: $40, $25 extra for beverage pairing The rundown: Eric Ehler is back, and this time he's combining both of his pop-ups into on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Seoul Patch Starts Serving Bulgogi LTs Today

    Kenichi KawashimaSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken po'boy.​Not long ago, Eric Ehler, who'd been a cook and sous-chef at Serpentine for three years, took a break from cooking to hang out in Seoul. "I didn't just love the cuisine of Seoul," says Ehler, who was born in Korea but had spent ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 21, 2011

    Pretty Pottery

    Kenichi KawashimaSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken po'boy.​Not long ago, Eric Ehler, who'd been a cook and sous-chef at Serpentine for three years, took a break from cooking to hang out in Seoul. "I didn't just love the cuisine of Seoul," says Ehler, who was born in Korea but had spent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    "San Francisco" Ice Cream in Korea: Homage, or Ripoff?

    Rafael Flores/CNN GoFell & Cole ice cream in Seoul, Korea recreates some of Humphry Slocombe's and Bi-Rite Creamery's flavors​Humphry Slocombe proprietor Jake Godby, or whoever is in charge of the Mission District ice cream shop's Twitter account, is not pleased about a new Seoul, Korea ice cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    San Franciscans to South Koreans: Stop Eating Dogs and Cats

    Eating your pets is just plain unsavory ​A group of San Francisco animal lovers is taking on a not-so-domestic animal-rights issue.  In Defense of Animals, a international nonprofit, will deliver 15,000 signatures tomorrow, asking the South Korean government to crack down on illegal dog and c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    What to Do This Weekend, June 10-12

    Tamara PalmerHonest Abe's pie at the last S.F. Food Wars pie battle.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., June 10 Friday Food Pod Launches Oakland Technical High School, Broadway (at 45th Street), 5:30-8:30 p.m. A weekly food pod called Bites on Broadway will set up ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 13, 2011

    Red Wings: Korean Fried Chicken Done Right. Really Right

    Tamara PalmerHonest Abe's pie at the last S.F. Food Wars pie battle.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., June 10 Friday Food Pod Launches Oakland Technical High School, Broadway (at 45th Street), 5:30-8:30 p.m. A weekly food pod called Bites on Broadway will set up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Drinking Snacks and Korean Fried Chicken: Q&A with Seoul Food Blogger Jennifer Flinn

    Jonathan KauffmanJennifer Flinn at a ramen-rice cake shop in Seoul. Note: She does not normally wear a bib.​Eating fried chicken wings, rice cakes, and fish-egg soup at Red Wings ― all with beer and soju cocktails ― made me wonder about how these foods would be eaten in Korea. Were they drinki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Honoring Special Request, Slurping Cookie Puss, and Saving Kangaroos

    ​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Four million animals and counting have been BURIED ALIVE in South Korea. It's the government's response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu in the pigs, cows, and chickens. It's unbelievable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Food Events for the Weekend of Jan. 7-9

    Off the Grid/FacebookImpervious to weather at McCoppin Hub.​Friday through Sunday, the area's tastiest happenings. Fri., Jan. 7: Food Truck Rally in Napa Oxbow Public Market, 728 First St. (at McKinstry), Napa; 5 p.m.-midnight The second installment of the first Friday food truck event in Oxb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Off the Grid Returns After Holiday Break

    John BirdsallIt's baaaack.​Almost a week after the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, things are just about back to normal. The tree's no more than a few dry needles lurking in the carpet, photo cards have been recycled, and Off the Grid is poised to return to the streets of San Francisco. OTG's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Tera Melos Isn't A Simpsons Reference. Or Are They Just Lying?

    ​ Hark, ye of little attention span: Sacramento spazz-rockers Tera Melos are bringing their refined mayhem to town tonight, their last stop before they embark upon a tour of Japan and South Korea with Mike Watt and the Missing Men. They're supporting their new album, Patagonian Rats, out a month a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Pickled Figs and Pumpkin Beers: This Week in Food Bloggery

    Tamara Palmer​Highlights from the blog and beyond: 1. Sean Timberlake continues his series of advice columns on preserving peak-season produce with a recipe for pickled figs that looks phenomenal ― as well as links to other fig-forward preserves. (Also intriguing: Timberlake's sighting of nastur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Is Emeryville Poised to Kill Its Street-Food Scene?

    Laurel H./YelpLiba Falafel and Seoul on Wheels in a typical lunchtime scene in Emeryville.​The East Bay city of Emeryville has been a particularly bright spot in the Bay Area's emerging street-food scene. While San Francisco is a maze of payouts and regulations across multiple agencies, Emeryv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Off the Grid Launches in Haight and Civic Center Later This Week

    Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyThe first Off the Grid launched at Fort Mason Center in late June.​Brace yourself for San Francisco street food to expand big this week. Off the Grid organizer Matt Cohen is announcing this morning that two of the three weekly street-food events slated for city parks w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Ten Things Other Than Ice Cream to Eat Today

    Jonathan KauffmanThis $2 bag of cantaloupe with chile, lime, and salt saved my life yesterday.​1. Bun (cold rice noodles) with grilled pork and a lemon soda at PPQ (1816 Irving, 661-8869).2. Melon, pineapple, or cucumbers doused with chile, lime, and salt from the frutero cart at 21st and Mission. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Happy Ending, Asian Street-Food Afterparty for SF Chefs Opening Gala

    Tamara PalmerSoul Cocina's sabudana vada, a South Indian fritter.​It'll take five restaurants, three dons of the folding table street-food movement, one food truck, and one dessert cafe to create the perfect "Happy Ending," the late-night component to SFChefs 2010's opening night festivities. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Brother Seafood Opens, a San Francisco Taco Glut Blossoms

    ​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. First off, SFoodie's Tamara Palmer e-mailed us to let us know that Brother Seafood Restaurant (1830 Irving St., 661-8033), whose sign we spotted a few weeks ago, has opened. The pitch: Canton ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Frozen Dessert Ladies Twirl and Dip Made Their Street-Food Debut Yesterday

    Tamara PalmerTwirl and Dip's Siri Skelton hoists a strawberry tart fruitsicle. Peep the strawberry silhouette.​Twirl and Dip made its public debut yesterday on a lovely Emeryville afternoon, carting as a guest of Korean tacos-n-more truck Seoul on Wheels. Meg Hilgartner and Siri Skelton are th ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Worlds Apart

    Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Sunset Celebration Weekend's New Street-Food Alley

    ​These days, you're not a proper lifestyle magazine if you can't throw a proper party. Next weekend, Sunset, the Menlo Park-based West Coast lifestyle magazine, is holding its annual Celebration Weekend. The event will take place on the venerable publication's seven-acre grounds ― yeah, magazine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Jonathan Kauffman's Tips for Venturing Beyond Korean Snack Food

    hyperbolation/FlickrLunch at Han Il Kwan.​You have questions about restaurants, dining, food, drinks that you can't figure out or are too shy to ask? I have answers ― or know people who do.Under the SFoodie teaser to this week's review of Korean snack food joints around San Francisco, Urbanstoma ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 10, 2010

    Korea Attacks! Korean junk food has established a tasty foothold

    hyperbolation/FlickrLunch at Han Il Kwan.​You have questions about restaurants, dining, food, drinks that you can't figure out or are too shy to ask? I have answers ― or know people who do.Under the SFoodie teaser to this week's review of Korean snack food joints around San Francisco, Urbanstoma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    A Guide to Chasing Korean Taco Trucks on the Peninsula

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2010

    Off the Farm

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Large and In Charge

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2008

    Art Collab

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    Space Kimchi Poses Explosion Risk

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 2, 2008

    Sunshine of Your Love

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2007

    All This and Kung Fu

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Buying In

    Seoul on Wheels' tacos.​Today's review mentioned in passing the preponderance of Korean taco trucks, the majority modeled after L.A.'s Kogi BBQ, that are prowling the Peninsula. If you're inspired to take your bike down on CalTrain to do a Cyrus Farivar-style tour de tacos, here's the list of truc ... More >>

  • Film

    May 31, 2006

    Typhoon in a Teacup

    Asian action movies don't get much less significant than this one

  • Film

    March 15, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Asian action movies don't get much less significant than this one

  • Film

    February 8, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Asian action movies don't get much less significant than this one

  • News

    April 27, 2005

    Save the Cute Animals!

    The inside story on protests against dog-eating, foie gras-enjoying, and fur-wearing

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2004

    It's a Killer

    Gloriously gruesome: a six-film series of serial-killer movies from around the world

  • Dining

    June 27, 2001

    Brother's

    Pacific Grin

  • News

    October 18, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from October 18, 2000

  • Dining

    August 25, 1999

    Summer Vacation

    Letters from October 18, 2000

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