Biwon

dim sum

I went to Seoul a decade ago and couldn’t forget that kimchi smell even in the subway. I got kids with a woman in love of Korean food and raised in a Korean house in Bogotá. And in some more years, Gogi grills and extra crispy chicken with kimchi mayo ended up being Latin America’s newest stuff. 

In Lima, in Surco, in a basement, you can be transported to a Seoul’s karaoke; you will find one of the best bulgogi dishes you’ll ever taste  from chef and singer Diana Park. Sustaining some old traditional family recipes, as some Galbichim meat stews to pork’s Yokbal ham. 

Miss Park is a fantastic singer, and the first time I had the opportunity to meet her, it was over a visit with Gaston Acurio’s troupe that my partner Pocho Caceres was part of, and one of the main members, well known as Palao, is an opera singer.

The duet came naturally after a dub version of Whitney Houston’s “Bodyguard,” them filled with the cleanest sound ever all the salon downstairs. After trying my biggest Korean banquet, the chef’s son invited us to come back and made some pictures.