This is located in Las Vegas’ Chinatown and a great place to buy Korean/Japanese ingredients. They also have locations in WA, CA and TX.
My 5 day YouTube Creator Camp was an awesome experience! I really had a great time at the camp and learned a lot of things, and met some great people.
Before going, I expected that they would give me a lot of advice about what to change in my videos. I expected they would have a lot of direct advice for me. But the camp was not like that at all. Instead, their message was that I was doing a good job, and that I was doing a lot of things right.
They showed me a lot of new techniques and ideas, and left it up to me to choose which ones would be useful. On YouTube, there is no clear way to “do it right,” we’re all deciding as we go. However one thing that everybody agrees is that keep doing what we do with lots of passion. I realized that I was not the only one who spends so much time on producing videos.
I want to thank YouTube team again for providing us with such a wonderful opportunity and I’m honored to be one of the 25 YouTube NextUp Creators. At the ending ceremony, I got a $35,000 check! Yay, it’s time for me to plan on my global cooking show by visiting my readers!
One day, we went to a Chinese restaurant. They served this amazing looking whole fish dish. Tasty!
Lunch at Google cafeteria. So colorful and super tasty!
Lunch at Google cafeteria
“Hurry up, many people will be lining up to taste our patbingsu (shaved ice with sweet red beans and fruit) soon!”
Ice for 100 servings! Several people shaved it with the small shaver. Scratch faster and make snow mountain! : )
ooh yummy yummy homemade sweet redbeans. You can’t make patbingsu without this because “pat” is red bean (adzuki beans) in Korean. : ) I made this and kept in my fridge before going to the camp. On the day of my presentation, I brought this to Google. The video of that day and the recipe will be posted soon.
These 2 men were my team! On the left, pdrop. on the right, Travis TheReceptionist. Both of them live in Los Angeles. These 2 became my good friends!
“Next, put some shaved ice”
With Michelle Phan, After talking and listening to her, I found she’s very down to earth and super smart!
with Peter from pdrop Mission #1! let’s clear everything here! booya! : )
With Byan Odell from YouTube channel BryanStars “ouch Bryan! You are still smiling even though you have severe burning scar on your face!”
The first day of camp, I went to Brooklyn with my 2 team members. I ran into one of my readers at Subway! She said, “Are you maangchi?” She said she made bunch of Korean dishes! I was surprised! I forgot to ask her name! If you happen to see this photo, please let me know your name through email.
Posted Saturday, May 28th, 2011 at 7:30 pmThese are some important messages for all of my readers about recent changes that I made to my website. Maybe you noticed already?
Photo upload
When I first made my photos page, I thought it would be very easy for people to use Flickr to upload and manage their Korean food photos. Then they could add them to my group and I could display on my website. Easy!
The group now has 250 members, and I really appreciate their input, but Flickr has a very strict policy on new accounts, and for newer members it was confusing and took a long time, or their accounts were never approved by Flickr, which made us all very frustrated!
The reason I post readers’ photos on my website is to encourage people to cook, so this frustrating Flickr process was very discouraging. So now you can use Flickr or upload to my website directly, and they will be included to the photo page.
When you upload your photos, be sure to fill out the recipe link and let us know if and how you modified the recipe, so that others can learn. I see that so many people invented their own recipes based on my recipe. They make vegetarian kimchi, add or skip some ingredients according to their taste. I love all of them and I’m very impressed.
If you belong to my Flickr group and have no problem with posting your photos, go ahead, it’s your choice. So far 1,400 photos are posted on my group page!
Search
I changed my site search to use Google, and when you start typing something, it will try to guess what you want based on what other people search. Try it out! Type something and it will give you popular suggetions.
Grocery Store maps
This enhancement is the most thrilling part for me! hooray! : ) I really appreciate all of your submissions, they are a big help for those who are looking for Korean ingredients in their area.
The Korean grocery shopping directory has gotten bigger and bigger with more stores added every day. Now that it’s getting so large, it needed to be better organized, instead of one big page. So I divided it into sections by country, and to make it easier to find stores I added maps to each country. For example here’s Singapore and here’s the USA. Please add your local store to it! It gets more useful every day.
Faster Forum
There was a problem with the forum where responding to someone’s post took a loooooooooong time. That’s fixed now, and the forum is super-fast. So go and talk to someone there! BTW, I don’t reply to everybody’s introduction, recipe request, or questions that I don’t know the answer to. But the forum is going very well and is very popular. Some of my readers make friends through the forum which is very awesome!
That’s it! More changes and improvements are coming, I’m working on them all the time.
Posted Saturday, March 26th, 2011 at 11:09 am
I made kimchi jjigae today :). Delicious! I added ready made spicy Kimchi Jjigae paste.
The recipe is here.
