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A pie odyssey of a retired American

 Chef Garrett Edwards poses in front of Tartine's Itaewon store in Seoul. The store celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year.  /  Korea Times photo by Yun Suh-youngItaewon's niche pie shop Tartine endures timeBy Yun Suh-young Garrett Edwards was 10 years old when his mother bought him a cookbook. "If you want something, make it yourself," she said when he and his sister asked her for a cup of hot chocolate. She could make it for them, but whenever Garrett asked her for food, she would say, "whatever you want is here," pointing to "The Boy's Cookbook" that she bought him. So by the time he was 12, Garrett was cooking on his own. Forty years later, Edwards started baking pies for a living. Ruby Edwards Tartine in Itaewon, Seoul, is a pie shop named after his mother. TartineTartine is a pretty well-known pie shop in Seoul, for anyone who has ever searched for an American pie in Seoul, real American style. It's been there for 10 years now -- this April they celebrate their 10-year anniversary since opening in 2008. As of Jan. 26 this year, the shop has sold 3 million p

Feb 22, 2018
A pie odyssey of a retired American

Hotel briefs

Afternoon tea promotion at the Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel/ Courtesy of Sheraton Seoul D Cube City hotelThe Sheraton Seoul D Cube City Hotel’s Lobby Lounge.Bar offers afternoon tea sets featuring strawberries until April 30. The dishes include crispy and cream-filled strawberry choux cream, champagne jelly with strawberry and blueberry, sweet strawberry and vanilla panna cotta topped with mini strawberry macaroons, as well as cranberry scones with homemade jam, mini-hot dogs and strawberry flower rolls. Coffee, tea or strawberry sangria is served with the desserts. The promotion runs from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The promotion costs 22,000 won per person, including tax. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2211-1740. The Grand Hilton Seoul offers the Gold Rush Lucky Bag package for 333 guests. The first-come-first-served package includes a one-night stay in a hotel room, breakfast for two, access to the indoor swimming pool and fitness center, a 50 percent discount on the sauna and a bubble bar made by Gold Rush, a soap brand. The package costs

Feb 22, 2018
Hotel briefs

Olympic-themed hotel food, beverage promotions in Seoul, Busan

Millennium Seoul Hilton is offering three special cocktails at its buffet restaurant Cafe 395 and bar Oak Room. / Courtesy of Millennium Seoul HiltonBy Kim Se-jeongThe PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games has many Korean glued to the TV in the evening. As the sporting event draw to a close on Sunday, they are looking forward to the closing ceremony.For the past two weeks, hotels across the country have been offering PyeongChang-themed promotions to cater to the winter sports fans, who are in a celebration mood. As the Olympics won’t end for another two days, you can still check out these hotels’ packages and other promotions.The Westin Chosun BusanFor the last two weeks, the Westin Chosun Busan Hotel has been offering food and beverage promotions to celebrate the Korean team’s victories.In particular, it has been offering surprise food and beverage promotions to guests staying at the hotel each time Korean athletes win medals: for a gold medal, a dining voucher for two at its Korean restaurant, Sheobul, for a silver medal a voucher for two at the hotel’s sauna, an

Feb 22, 2018
Olympic-themed hotel food, beverage promotions in Seoul, Busan

Millennium Hilton's new chef embarks on journey to find his roots

Anders Groenholm /Courtesy of Millennium Seoul HiltonBy Kim Se-jeong Being a hotel chef, especially for an international hotel chain, is one of the most traveled jobs. But, many take the job for a chance to live in many parts of the world and gain meaningful career experiences.The exterior view of the hotelFor Anders Groenholm, the new executive chef at Millennium Seoul Hilton, one of the oldest hotels in Korea, his motivation for taking the job was personal: to find his roots.For two years until 2017, he had been happily working as the executive chef at the Hilton Dubai Jumeriah Resort, a five-star property with 752 rooms.“But, I’ve always wanted to come back to Korea to find my roots,” Groenholm said in a recent interview with The Korea Times. When an offer was made to him, it didn’t take him long to make up his mind. The chef was born in Daejeon, 140 kilometers south of Seoul, abandoned at the age of four and adopted to a Danish family at five. He still remembers his full name in Korean.He said he had a childhood with his lovely adoptive family who took car

Feb 22, 2018
Millennium Hilton's new chef embarks on journey to find his roots

High1 Resort offers free ski lessons to foreigners

/ Courtesy of High1 Ski ResortBy Park Si-soo High1 Ski Resort is offering free ski lesson to foreigners. The lessons -- twice a day (10 a.m. and 2 p.m.) with each class lasting one hour -- will begin on Feb. 25 and continue through March 24. There are places for up to 20 people per session. Reservations can be made on a first-come, first-served basis at the resort’s ski school office. The classes are among the resort’s promotional events linked to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The resort is just kilometers away from host cities PyeongChang and Gangneung. During the period, the resort will also give females free night ski-lift tickets.

Feb 20, 2018
High1 Resort offers free ski lessons to foreigners

Philippine leader threatens to close 'cesspool' holiday island of Boracay

Tourists on Boracay / Korea Times photo by Choi Ha-youngBy Jung Min-ho, Cho Se-YongPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to close Boracay, a popular destination for Korean tourists, calling the island a "cesspool."Duterte blames local executives for the condition of Boracay. According to media outlets, only 25 facilities out of 150 there are connected to a sewerage line. The rest of the sewage and trash goes into the ocean. “You go into the water, it's smelly,” he was quoted as saying. “Smell of what? S***. Because it all comes out in Boracay.”If the present state does not improve in the next six months, Duterte said he will shut down the island, removing all tourist access. It is expected to be a major blow to tourism businesses and a local economy that relies heavily on them. The government said that the island brought in 56 billion pesos ($1.08 billion) last year alone.The country’s tourism secretary Wanda Teo warned that, if the government continues to overlook pollution, the island may turn into a “paradise lost.”Boracay is

Feb 13, 2018
Philippine leader threatens to close 'cesspool' holiday island of Boracay

Overseas trip reservations for Lunar New Year holiday up 14-15 pct

Reservations for overseas trips by South Koreans rose by 14-15 percent for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday period compared to the same period in 2017, local travel agencies said Sunday.Hana Tour, the country's No. 1 travel service company, said group tours from Wednesday through Feb. 19 totaled 44,700 people. This is up a solid 15.5 percent from the same six day period last year.Lunar New Year, or Seollal, is celebrated according to the lunar calendar and is on a different day of the solar calendar from year to year. Last year it fell on Jan. 28, while for 2018 it falls on Friday.By region, Hana tour said the number of people going to Europe shot up 61.5 percent on-year to 2,100, with the figures for the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and Japan, rising 25 percent, 22.9 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively.The number of locals heading for the United States and Canada remained the same as last year, with those planning to go to China falling 14.5 percent to around 4,300. Demand for trips to China has fallen sharply in the wake of the diplomatic row caused by the deployment of an a

Feb 11, 2018
Overseas trip reservations for Lunar New Year holiday up 14-15 pct

Airbnb ambitious to supply accommodation for PyeongChang Olympics

Lee Sang-hyun, head of public policy at Airbnb Seoul, presents data during a press event held Tuesday in Seoul. / Courtesy of Airbnb By Yun Suh-young Global lodging platform Airbnb has rolled up its sleeves to ambitiously support the PyeongChang Winter Olympics which begins Friday. In a press conference Tuesday, releasing data gathered ahead of the Olympics, the online company announced the number of bookings for Gangwon Province, where the Olympics will be held, increased by 260 percent. "Whereas there were 2,500 tourists to PyeongChang last February, the numbers have catapulted to 9,000 as of Feb. 2 this year, up by 260 percent within a year. That means, based on simple calculation of placing two people in one room, there needs to be 4,500 rooms to accommodate them. This is equivalent to having 28 hotels. Airbnb has de facto brought 28 hotels to the region," said Lee Sang-hyun, head of public policy at Airbnb's Seoul office. "As of this February, there are 4,000 Airbnb listings in Gangwon Province. The mean price for the listings is 185,000 won, which is nearly one-third of th

Feb 7, 2018
Airbnb ambitious to supply accommodation for PyeongChang Olympics

Korean-American chef plants hope for orphans

Chef Hooni Kim, left, prepares a meal with chef Kim Ji-woon of Volpino, right, at Zion Home in Seoul.  /  Courtesy of Hooni KimBy Yun Suh-young Korean-American chef Hooni Kim, who is well known in both Korea and the U.S. for his appearance in Master Chef Korea and for his restaurant Danji in New York which was the first Korean restaurant to get a Michelin star, has embarked on a new journey to help less privileged children and give them hope for the future. "Yori Chunsa" ("Angel Chefs" in Korean) is an organization he created in February last year to have chefs cook for orphans and provide them with job opportunities at their restaurants, should they be interested in cooking. His research began in June 2016 and he decided on the program later that year. Since its launch, seven restaurants in Seoul have participated and continue to do so a year into the program. This year, more restaurants will be joining the organization -- there will be a total of 13 restaurants participating. "I'm going to need about 20 to 24 if we're going to do one more orphanage. At the moment, we're v

Feb 6, 2018
Korean-American chef plants hope for orphans

South Korea has a 'Trump' motel with prison cells

The exterior of Trump Hotel shows its theme rooms, including the prison cell. / Photo by Jon DunbarBy Jon DunbarI traveled 284 kilometers south from Seoul to Naju to spend the night in a prison cell. It was one of several theme rooms at Naju’s Trump Motel, a stone’s throw from Naju Station in South Jeolla Province, just 10 minutes south of Gwangju on the Honam Line.It all started two weeks ago when I typed “Trump” into Daum Map. That led me to the Naju Trump Muintel Facebook page. A “muintel” is an unmanned hotel, where guests check in through machine rather than with a person, intended to reduce costs and maximize guest privacy. This one is alternately called a muintel, a hotel, a business hotel, a motor hotel, a drive-in hotel and a motel. The motel rooms are on the second floor, and the third floor is run as a business hotel. The hotel, newly opened in July, has a glitzy neon exterior. And a prison cell theme room! What could they be thinking? I had to stay there myself. So the next available weekend, I filled up my cats’ bowls and heade

Feb 3, 2018
South Korea has a 'Trump' motel with prison cells
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