It feels like summer is just around the corner or maybe that’s just wishful thinking. But one thing I do more when it’s warmer is having salads for lunch/dinner. It does get a bit boring though so venturing out a little bit is always welcome….
One of the easiest little side dish you can make is the cucumber salad. Often called cucumber kimchi but that’s not really right as kimchi is something that’s usually fermented whereas this one is ready to eat straight away! There are versions of this salad…
It’s Chobok in 3 days, which is the beginning of the hottest period in Korea 🥵Chobok is part of Boknal which signifies the beginning, middle and end of this period during which Koreans eat food that’ll give them strength. One such dish is Samgyetang, the…
If you, like me and lots of others, watched Parasite and got really intrigued by the dish chappaguri which is a mix of two different Korean instant noodles, then you may enjoy this one! Koreans love a bit of mixing and creating compound words. So…
An often misunderstood food is tofu but I’d you ever try it in Asia, you’ll know it’s so much more than a meat substitute and in fact deserves its own standing in the culinary world. The one basic mistake I see people make is to…
If you follow the latest Korean food trendsz I’m sure you’d have stumbled upon croffles. They are croissants cooked in a waffle iron, usually served with whipped cream, ice cream, you name it. Korean cafes also do savour versions with spring onions. It’s quite an…
You might, in the coming months see Korean fried chicken burgers on some franchise menus and from all the reviews I’ve seen, people weren’t impressed…So, what to do but make your very own Korean fried chicken burger? 😃 I’ve experimented with batter over the last…
I realised that I didn’t have a very basic Korean fried chicken recipe, just lots of different versions with different sauces. So here is your base recipe, which you can then add the sauce of your choice to. I use wings for this as I…
Chinese food in Korea is very much koreanised and quite different to what you see in the West. The most popular dishes are Jjajangmyeon, sweet and sour pork called Tangsuyuk and Jjampong. Often people get a bit of everything and jjampong is usually eaten with…
Today I was going to add a twist to your OG street food, tteokbokki! This is a trendy thing from Korea because gosh, they love adding spins to their food!This time, it’s adding cream and milk to tteokbokki and other spicy foods and calling it…