Croissant Bungeoppang Bungeoppang or Boong-uh ppang is called ‘goldfish bread’, a pancake typically filled with red bean. Somewhat like the Japanese taiyaki. A croissant version has a flaky patry dough. Ingredients (for 6 bungeoppang) 1 cup all purpose flour ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon brown or white sugar 1 cup plus…
Grilled Abalone In Butter
Grilled Abalone In Butter You see all kinds of meat and seafood being grilled in the street stalls. But… Abalone? 3 on a stick, and happened to be chewy and NOT elastic. (Though some may comment that abalone does not have much ‘taste’ itself.) Ingredients 5 baby abalone 1 Tbsp unsalted butter 1 clove garlic (minced) 2 Tbsp dashi 2 Tbsp lemon juice green…
Blood Sausage (Sundae)
Blood Sausage (Sundae) Don’t freak out. Sundae are made by boiling or steaming cow or pig’s intestines that are stuffed with various ingredients – including coagulated pigs blood with glass noodles. There hasn’t been much discussion of blood on this column because it’s just so hard to find a reliable source for fresh blood. But then it…
Sausage with Cheese, Hamburg Steak Stewers
Sausage with Cheese, Hamburg Steak Stewers While I am still on sausages, this contains alternating pieces of cheese-filled sausages and teokbokki filled beef on the same stick. Ingredients For the Kebabs: 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon hot paprika 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 teaspoon…
Bacon Wrapped Sausages
Bacon Wrapped Sausages Like what? (But I didn’t like many of the sausages around because I thought they contained too much flour in proportion.) INGREDIENTS 4 middle bacon rashers, rind removed, halved lengthways 8 thick beef sausages 2/3 cup barbecue sauce 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon mixed dried herbs Salad…
Tteokgalbi Meatballs
Tteokgalbi Meatballs Tteokgalbi is a classic Korean dish made from beef ribs. The meat is minced and pounded on the bone, marinated in a sweet savoury sauce, then rolled into balls then deep-fried. Kind of too starchy for me. Ingredients (serves 2) 1 pound beef short ribs (4 meaty ribs) 2 tablespoons soy sauce. 1…
Takoyaki
Takoyaki Almost like a Takoyaki (wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special moulded pan) though shaped like a mini-pancake, choose your fillings of shrimps, octopus or bacon. Sprinkled with bonito flakes and drizzled with mayo and sweet sauce before serving. Ingredient Sausages / Bacon Canned tuna / Mentaiko (Spicy cod/pollock roe) Shrimp / Squid…
Bulgogi Beef and Japchae
Bulgogi Beef and Japchae Korean stir fried beef noodles with vegetables. Japchae is a type of Korean glass sweet potato noodles, stir fried in sesame oil with vegetables, flavoured with soy sauce, and sweetened with sugar. Stir-fry for about a minute or two until the mushrooms start to turn golden; then add the marinated bulgogi(marinade and…
Korean Style Yaki Noodles
Korean Style Yaki Noodles Pan-fried Korean noodles with bite-sized pork, shredded cabbage, onions and carrots, with some gochujang sauce for the spiciness. 4,000 Won (SGD$4.80). INGREDIENTS FOR 3 TO 4 SERVINGS MAIN 370 g / 13 ounces skinless chicken thigh, thinly sliced 270 g / 9.5 ounces fresh baby bok choy leaves, separated and rinsed…
Pork Trotters (Jokbal)
Pork Trotters (Jokbal) Some tourists were trying to make a guess what this is. Pork trotters, braised in a combination of soy sauce, ginger, garlic. Worry not, they look much better sliced. Greasy, but delicious. Jokbal is a very popular pork dish to many Koreans worldwide. In translation, it means pig’s trotters or legs (boneless)…
Daebak! 