Food from Korea 2010 – Part One

My closet is emptied and I’m finding it really hard to put everything back in.  I’m supposed to gather up the winter clothes and take them to my mom’s house for storage, but instead I thought I would torture my readers with some food pictures taken in Korea.  =P  It’s lunch time now, right?

 

Enjoy!

 

 
Family dinner at home!

 

 

Lunch with the MR and Munchkin at Shinsaegae.  I only took a picture of half the banana split because Munchkin had already started digging in.  =P 

 

 

  

Lunch at San Deul Hae.  If you look closely at the last picture, you can see that they clear the table by taking the whole top away.  Pretty cool huh?

 

 

Macarons in the French Village.

 

 

 

Dunkin Donuts!

 

 

Bbop Ggi on the streets of Myung Dong

 

 

Glorious STREET FOODS!  =)

 

 

 

Din Tai Fung in Myung Dong – Yup, tasted the same as in Arcadia!  =)

 

 

Jjampong and Mandoo at Jang Gae

 

 

NamDaeMoon Street Foods

 

 

 

  

Enjoying HanWoo at Cham Yae Woo

 

 

 

 

 

At some hole in the wall restaurant in SokCho.  This reminds me that I *MUST* replicate this noodle dish.  It was literally heaven on a chopstick!

 

 

Breakfast at one of the many *Halmoni Jip’s* in SokCho~

 

 

Pictures from the seafood market.

 

 

 

Dinner at one of the many seafood restaurants in the market.  Anyhow, it’s really time for me to go and start putting everything back into my closet!  I’ll be back soon with *MORE* pictures of food in Korea! 

BooChoo Jun – 부추 전

This past weekend was definitely a much needed break for our family.  We spent *every* single day together out and about and doing something or another.  I already mentioned in my previous post that we stocked up on groceries.  While at the store, they were having a *sale* on boo-choo (Korean chives), so I decided to stock up and make some jun/jeon.

I washed and cleaned THREE bunches of boochoo.  I used one bunch for the moo che and had TWO bunches leftover so I decided to make some boochoo jun.

 

Ingredients Needed:

• 2 bunches of boochoo
• 3/4 cup water, 1 CUP Korean Pancake mix
• dash of salt and pepper
• 2 red peppers
• 1/4 cup julienne carrots and 1/4 sliced small onion
• PAM cooking spray

 
Start off by washing and drying two bunches of boochoo!


 
I cut it all up into about one inch pieces.  It’s inside the tupperware because I had cut it up the previous night!

 

  
Measure about 1 CUP of Korean Pancake mix…

  
Add roughly a cup of water.

 
Make sure you mix it really well before adding the vegetables. 

  
Add some carrots and onions if you like.  If you don’t have it, don’t worry about it!

 

  
Then throw in the two bunches of boochoo and season it a little with a dash of salt and pepper.

  
Mix it all around!

 
Cut up some red peppers.


 
Grease a large pan and put down about 1/4 cup of jun.  Put in as many *juns* as you can fit into your pan.  Place a piece of red pepper on top in the middle…

 
…and then flip it over to make sure you get both sides!

  
Tada!  You’re all done.  I know this recipe has very little pancake mix.  I tend to make it this way because I like the rich flavor of the boochoo.  You can easily add more mix and water to get it more *pancake* like.

 
ENJOY!  The MR devoured each and every one of them.  I’m so happy I married a man that knows how to eat!  =)  Hope everyone is having a good week so far.

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Rolled Egg – (계란 말이)

I’m currently in the midst of using new publishing software to make posting on this blog a bit easier.  I’m a bit comp-illiterate so trying to figure out how to use a new platform is quite time consuming.  You might see a lot of posts coming up and down over the next few weeks while I try and get everything sorted out.  =P  Please bear with me.

Anyhow, over the weekend we dropped by K-Town to stock up on some groceries.

We usually head out to either Galleria Market or Assi Market but this time we went to HK Market & Gaju Market because the line heading into the Galleria was insane!  Both HK and Gaju were subpar IMO compared to the former two.  The reason I went to two different markets was because the quality of meats was so bad at Gaju Market that I couldn’t get myself to buy it.  Yes, I’m a bit picky when it comes to meat.

When we got home, I went through the fridge and discovered that I had some eggs that were set to expire, so I decided to use them all up!

 

Ingredients Needed:

• 3 Eggs
• 1/4 CUP milk
• 1/4 CUP onions, 1/4 CUP green onions, 1/4 CUP mushrooms, 1/4 ham
• dash of salt and pepper and some cooking spray

  
First, go and crack 3 eggs into a large bowl.

 

        
Then chop up about 1/4 cup each of mushrooms and onions.

 

   
Add those along with some green onions into the bowl of eggs…

 

   
I bought some Korean sausage/ham at the K-market and chopped up about 1/2 CUP of that up as well. 

 

Add the sausage to the mixture and splash a little milk into it.  Mix everything up very well!

 

Take some PAM and grease your pan with it.

 

Pour about HALF the mixture into the pan.  I made two rolls with this!  Once again, the *key* is MEDIUM-LOW heat.  You want the egg to gradually cook without burning.  Let some time pass, about 6-7 minutes…

 

When the egg is nice and firm, it’s much easier to flip it over like this. 

 

Keep going and flip once more.  If you mess up, just pour a little egg mixture into the pan and keep going.

 

Flip it over all the way and let it cook a little so the insides can get done.

 

   
Voila!  All flipped and ready to be cut.  Let it cool for a few minutes before attempting to cut it.

 

Cut it up into pieces and squeeze some ketchup on top.  Obviously I forgot to take a picture with the ketchup on top.  =P  They also sell a pan at Korean stores made specifically for egg flipping.  I plan on picking one up sometime soon.  I will share the results~

 

  
You are now ready to enjoy!  Both the MR and Munchkin gobbled this all up and I ended up making this again the next day!