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Creative Soul Arts by James Purdie
After 10 years of experiencing and absorbing a different country and culture with an open heart, you can honestly say you have become 20% that culture. It’s true. You absorb and love it. I preach the nutrition of Kimchi around the world and sing Korea songs, which can bring tears of joy to any Korean I meet in Canada now!
Bibimbap is a very popular dish of rice and vegetables in Korea, but there’s a certain “healthy wisdom” in this dish which you can expand into an entire diet. This is something that I’ve started to do in the last few years myself. Continue reading “Get Healthy With The Bibimbap Diet! 돌솥비빔밥”
Well it’s very interesting and fun once you get used to it. I pulled out this video and decided to share so that people can see what an average day looks like in Seoul, South Korea.
Continue reading “Living In A Typical Korean Neighborhood”
If you ever get the chance to travel and live in another country for a few years or more, it’s a wonderful chance to compare and contrast cultures and see what makes them each successful and beautiful in their own ways.
It’s actually an amazing wonder in our day and age just to be able to go and live in worlds that evolved seperately for thousands of years and I will tell you, it just doesn’t get any more different than Korea and Canada. I was simply awe-stricken when I first arrived. My first 12 hours in the country lives like an interesting impressionist painting in my memory because after you have stayed awake for so long on a plane, you’re jet-lagged, exhausted and in a semi-conscious state of mind with definitely some “dream-like” perceptions taking place around you.
Hello again. I’ve been waiting a long time to tell you about this delicious piece of Korean cooking. I’ve had so many things to say here on Bondaygee.com, but this has been one of the top stories that I’ve been dying to share. So sit back and listen to this tasty tale from a Canadian guy who lived in Korea for twelve years and fell in love with their healthy foods.
It’s nearly impossible to talk about Korean culture without mentioning the healthy and delicious representative food, kimchi, the pride of Korea.
There are actually quite a few different types of “kimchi’s”, spicy, fermented vegetables, but Chinese Cabbage is usually the first one we always think of, though radish is very common too.