A new way to scare the kiddies this year

Halloween is around the corner and I have to honestly say, this is just grotesque looking.

created and image taken from emergencyfan2000

Assembly is not too difficult. Slather a fake (obviously!) skull with cream cheese and start pasting flesh colored meat. I’m guessing that olive loaf probably does wonders for creating the “rotting flesh” look.  Use it as a centerpiece as photographed above, or do as I will do and put it outside your stoop to scare the kids away. NO CANDY FOR YOU!

(hehe kidding. I’m not that mean. I live in an apt building. No kids ringing my doorbell unless i buzz them in)

My favorite game from childhood

…..in cake form.

(this is also a shout out to Sugar Baby)

Created by Cupcake Jonas

A different perspective on food

James Reynolds, a British graphic designer, has a very interesting food-related project in his porfolio: a series of photos documenting the last food requests of former death row inmates.

I liked the stark focus of the photographs — it really translated the somberness of it being a “last meal”.  I found them haunting which was a new way to look at food.  Take a look at his work here.

Truth be told, I feel a little sad.

Leave it to Martha…

“always innovative and Queen of cute” Stewart to conjure up this cuteness:  TV dinner CUPCAKES!

image taken from ladyflashhh on Flickr

This seriously reminds me of my childhood. No joke, my brother and I would have your normal breakfast and lunch — then a frozen dinner as a snack before dinner.

I suppose that’s where I developed my healthy eating habits. Thanks, Mom.

Recipe for these cupcakes here.

Cooking with Blood

I’m a pretty adventurous eater and I do like my steaks medium rare, I like carpaccio, I eat marrow and I do enjoy a good steak tartare but this article really made me lose it.

It’s extreme eating, that’s for sure.

Read this article at your own risk.

I MUST and WILL have this

I drooled when I saw this photo. It’s handmade fusilli with tender octopus braised in red wine and bone marrow. Apparently the dish, though simple in appearance, is complex. The marrow emulsified by the heat adding a velvety texture to the dish.

I am making my reservation now.

See more pictures and the making of this dish here.  Picture taken from Serious Eats.

Marea, 240 Central Park South, New York NY

UPDATE: I made reservations for July 30th so stay tuned!

This is kinda cool!

Juice boxes that look like the fruit they contain!  They have realistic skin textures — feels and looks like the actual fruit. Check out the kiwi one.

Created by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, the juice box’s packaging is supposed to be more appealing to the eye by imitating the actual fruit they contain.

As Naoto puts it; “I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”

See more pics here.

Cutest spoon I’ve ever seen

I thought this was so adorable! It’s a children’s book about an insecure spoon who thinks his life is less exciting than his friends Fork, Chopstick or Knife but later realizes that he has his own unique strengths.

Here’s his family

Self realization that it’s great to be a spoon

Buy your copy of Spoon.

A note from the Hungry Korean

I wanted to explain the discrepancies in the quality of my photos on this site.

Sometimes it is not appropriate to whip out a camera and take a photo, flash and all. It could be the company I’m with or the ambience of the restaurant; some restaurants, such as Ko Restaurant (David Chang), do not allow photos of their food to even be taken.

With that said, if I can, I do try and take photos with my camera since the quality of the photos are much better. However, there have been/will be times where a full on camera and flash does not feel appropriate and then I will use my iPhone camera since photographing is less conspicuous and flash-less.

Thanks. Happy eating!

Whole Foods seems to have it all

….including EMU EGGS

Yes those things are eggs. And for $29.99 a pop you too can fire one up with your sausage and toast.  But would you really want to eat the egg of something that looks like this?

Ok ok. An emu is really like an ostrich so I guess it’s really not that strange — especially since I’ll eat things like pigs feet and sweetbreads and blood sausage, who am I to really talk!

Whole Foods, 95 East Houston Street, New York NY