Category Archives: Snacks

Chapssal Donuts (Korean Glutinous Rice Ball Doughnuts)

Chapssal Donuts (Korean glutinous rice ball doughnut)

 A new habit of mine since I came back to food blogging is “food ingredients hoarding”. I look around the internet for blogging inspiration or weekly menu planning and when I see some nice photos of food I write down the ingredients immediately onto my weekly grocery shopping list. I always “intend to” make it straight away, of course. But quite often, I get so distracted by overflowing other delicious looking food and my uncontrollable food cravings that my tiny little pantry has been overcrowded by my hoarded food ingredients for some time. So this tin of red bean paste has been squatting in my pantry for about two months now and I thought I ought to send it out finally!

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How to Make Korean Sauna Style Eggs in 25 Minutes (or in 50 Minutes)

How to make Korean sauna eggs

Have you ever wondered how to make brown eggs that are often seen in a Korean sauna/spa (Jjimjilbang, 찜질방), which are also often featured in many Korean dramas and movies? Then, you are not the only one. A couple of days ago, I was asked that same question by one of my readers.

The photo below is of Park Si Hoo eating Jjimjilbang eggs in the Korean drama “Queen of Reversals (2010)
Queen of Reversal - Park Si Hoo at Korean Sauna

 (Original source: MBC, Photo edited by http://bntnews.hankyung.com/)

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Dumpling Skin Churros (Mandupi Churros)

Dumpling Skin Churros (Mandupi Churros)

(When Korean food meets Spanish food)

I had a small amount of dumpling skin (mandupi 만두피) leftover from when I made some mandu (만두) for Lunar New Year’s day. It wasn’t enough to make more mandu (neither did I feel like making more so soon), but I wanted use up the dumpling skin before it goes off.

I already had one solution for this, which I posted on this blog a while back, but I wanted to try something different. I surfed around the internet and this brilliant recipe grabbed my attention. It’s called Mandupi Churros (만두피 츄로스), meaning churros made with dumpling skin. How creative is that?!

The recipe was originally featured on a Korean TV show called, “Happy Together”  at a “Late Night Cafeteria” corner back in November 2012 and it was introduced by Lee Jong Hyuk, a Korean actor well-known for Korean drama: A Gentleman’s Dignity.

Mandupi Churros from Happy Together Late Night Cafeteria

(Original source: KBS, screen capture edited by http://star.fnnews.com/

Supposedly, this recipe tastes the same as the one sold at a theme park, so let’s find out!

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