When it’s as hot as it is right now, the last thing I fancy is slaving in a hot kitchen. Korea gets incredibly hot too and one dish they like eating during the height of summer is this cold noodle dish. It’s made with buckwheat…
Today’s deliciousness centres around a street food snack that Koreans often eat for breakfast! Egg bread is a mini loaf that has a whole egg incorporated in each bread and is sold all over Korea.🍳🍞 Unlike the name suggests, it’s not technically a bread since…
One of my top 5 favourite foods is this soup. It’s an incredibly clean, deep flavour soup and I can list the ingredients on one hand.The oxtail is boiled for at least 5 hours and through the process of cleaning and skimming, you end up…
I tried to make something different today! the spicy Yangneom chicken is only one variety of fried chicken you can get in Korea. If you go to a chicken shop in Korea, you’ll see loads of different flavours to choose from so I wanted…
I made super spicy tteokbokki the other day but also wanted some kim mari with it. It’s a seaweed roll filled with japchae, battered and deep fried. It’s usually served with tteokbokki so you can dip it into the sauce! This is a…
It should be the easiest thing to make really, but I like my pancakes exactly like how my mum makes them, thin and crispy and boy, it’s been a long journey before I got this right. The rules are simple: Have really well fermented kimchi,…
Dakgangjeong is a street food version of Yangneom chicken, the fried chicken that’s covered in the spicy, sweet sauce. It’s bite size and there are no bones to worry about.What makes fried chicken Korean fried chicken?Well, it’s how the chicken is seasoned while marinating plus…
This is a real special occasion dish and what better day to have it than on a Sunday? The short ribs are braised slowly in a sweet and spicy sauce with some carrots, mushrooms and dangmyuen which are glass noodles used in japchae, usually there’s…
When last I went to the Cardiff Korean and Japanese shop, I bought a pile of gyoza skins so today I slaved for a couple of hours to make 55 mandu! Mandu are Korean dumplings, very similar to gyoza with a few key differences in…
Doenjang jjigae is a staple in Korean cuisine. It’s made with doenjang which is a fermented soy bean paste that’s similar to miso but packs a bigger punch. This is commonly served as part of Korean BBQ and sometimes even cooked in a stone bowl…