Korean In My Kitchen

I was going through my list of things that I would get around to trying. Kimchi and Korean seafood pancake were on it. Last weekend, I made kimchi salad according to this recipe. It was quite tasty. This week, the leftovers became kimchi fried rice.

Kimchi salad with char siu and jasmine rice
Kimchi salad with char siu and jasmine rice

Kimchi Fried Rice

  • 2 cups             leftover kimchi, chopped
  • 3 large            eggs
  • 1 small            onion
  • 1 lb                  ground pork
  • 3-4 cups         cooked rice
  •                         oil for frying
  •                         salt and pepper
  •                        soy sauce

Beat eggs and add a dash of salt. Scramble and chop. Saute the onions in a little oil until slightly cooked. Cook ground pork in a pan with a little oil until browned. Season with salt and pepper.  Add a few tablespoons of oil to a wok. Add the cooked rice, breaking up the chunks until it is warm. Add the eggs, onion, meat and kimchi to the rice. Add dashes of soy sauce to taste. Cook until heated through.

This week I tried to make Korean seafood pancake, or haemul pajeon.  I followed this recipe.  Well, most of it.

Ingredients
Ingredients

I used a package of small frozen shrimp and small scallops for the seafood. I actually found the Korean pancake mix at the Korean grocery store. By the way, sweet rice flour is also known as glutinous rice flour. Note that it doesn’t actually contain gluten! I think it refers to the rice being sticky.

I decided, that because the only large frying pan I owned is 12″ to fry twice instead of three times. A bit of a mistake. The pancake fell apart when I tried to flip it. I’ll need to follow the instructions with my new 8″ Calphalon pan or buy a 10″… Decisions. Oh well, it turned out tasty.

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Oopsie.
Oopsie.
But tasty
But tasty

Asian Food Restaurant

We were hungry for some sushi and we stumbled upon this little place. The name is rather generic, but they serve Japanese and Korean food.

We ordered a nice variety of sushi and tempura. The veggie tempura was really light and fresh tasting.  The green beans were still crunchy with a vibrant green color.

We also had peach flavoured green tea which went really well with the spicy rolls.

Dessert was complimentary;  deep fried banana that looked like a caterpillar. Would visit again, if I had another opportunity.

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Vegetable tempura and salmon and tuna sashimi.
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BBQ eel and salmon nigiri sushi on the left.
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Sushi roll platter wirh spicy tuna, spicy salmon, teriyaki chicken, California roll and teriyaki tuna
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Tempera fried banana

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