Food the Wong Way

Category: Eating Out

  • Exploring Seoul! Day 4
    High speed train, Daejeon, & Insadong

  • Exploring Seoul! Day 3
    out to the ball game

    At the baseball stadium box office: Will Call Attendant: Hmm, is your name Park? Me: yeees…? Will Call Attendant: When is your birth date? Me: Well…S______ Park reserved the tickets for me. Will Call Attendant: Do you have her phone number? Me: (procures hotel business card with number) Will Call Attendant: Aaaah, the hotel reserved…

  • Exploring Seoul! Day 2
    ..in pictures

  • Exploring Seoul! Day 1
    The Bleary-Eyed Arrival

    Korean Air still gives their economy class passengers “free” things! Water, slippers, and a toothbrush and paste. I guess if I were so inclined, I could’ve stolen the blanket and headphones too.. meals were standardly edible, excepting the delicious beef-filled bun I chose over a brownie. Best choice made on the plane. The descent into…

  • Exploring in Seoul! Day 0..

    Now for a departure from the standard format I’ve laid out: for the next weekish, this is now a travel and food blog. Don’t worry, there’ll still be lots of food, I can’t resist! For any potential house burglars: I’ve got house guests living at my home in Seattle, and a home security system. First stop:…

  • PLOC Juice!
    ..or Pineapple Orange Lime Cayenne

    The forecast in many parts of North America reaches 90 degrees in the next several days, so here’s a cold drink recipe to try. Shout out to my many Northwest peeps living without air conditioning. I had a real brain-sparking juice from Assembly Hall (a part of that behemoth conglomerate known as Tom Douglas restaurants)…

  • Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake
    in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!

    I found this gluten-free chocolate cherry cake recipe and used it to make a raspberry chocolate cake in a dutch oven by campfire. Below are the basic steps re-written the way I did them. This was a good one to prep and fire up before dinner, and let sit and finish cooking while you eat…

  • Campfire Cooking Methods

    Before more recent whirlwind adventures to a wedding in Vermont, K____ and I took a brief respite to camp in the North Cascades National Park. The votes are in, and the top winning option for next blog post was Campfire Cooking Methods! Special thanks to Logistikris for the unique comment entry of ‘Campfire chocoraspberry cake.’…

  • Car Camping the Wong Way.. Choose Your Own Adventure Edition!

    So, maybe that 2nd hot toddy and the half a family size bag of kettle style salt & pepper chips was not the best idea, since now my health has declined significantly post-camping over the weekend. But anyway, I thought I’d put it to a vote of the readers: which of these would you most…

  • J and K on Holiday

    Remember that friend I mentioned who set this blog up? Check out J and K on Holiday, for a glimpse of his current adventures traipsing about Europe! At the moment, they’re in France.. A bientot! y.