SuJeongGwa (Korean Cinnamon Punch)

SuJeongGwa (Korean Cinnamon Punch)

While most of you are welcoming spring arrival, I am enjoying the cooled down weather and autumn’s seasonal fruit. (It feels like I’m going against the crowd! I feel left out. Haha) Today I’m introducing SuJeongGwa (수정과, Korean Cinnamon Punch), which I am sure you heard of before. I intended to make this on Lunar New Years Day as a dessert drink, like a month ago! My busyness got carried on with other food and I didn’t get to make it then.

Sujeonggwa is a popular traditional dessert drink along with Sikhye (Sweet rice drink). It’s particularly consumed during the festive holiday’s such as New Years Day and Korean Moon Festival (Chuseok, also known as Korean Thanksgiving Day). It is known to help digestion and maybe that’s why it’s often served after having Korean BBQ at a restaurant.

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Yubu Kimbap (Kimbap with Seasoned Deep Fried Tofu Pouches)

Yubu Kimbap in a Lunchbox

The one thing I miss about Korea is convenience. You can get most kinds of food delivered to you at your door very easily without incurring any additional charges. If an item you are looking for is not deliverable, you just come out of your house and ‘walk’ around for about 10 mins (sometimes less) then you can find what you are looking for most of the time. Kimbap is one of those items you can fetch very easily on your command.  But the story is very different here in Australia. If I want Kimbap, then I have to drive to the nearest Korean grocery store for about 10 mins (I consider myself lucky up to this part). However, as Kimbap is a specially delivered item from a different store rather than made by the Korean grocery store itself (like from a rice cake store on this occasion); it doesn’t guarantee that I can get it when I want it. Even then, they only sell one type of Kimbap at a relatively high price (AUD $6.50 for 2 rolls of Kimbap), which has quite an ordinary taste.

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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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