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What Brown Rice Packages look like

September 16, 2006 Category: Ingredient Descriptions, Tips for Living in Korea

I noticed some foreigners buy brown rice when they visit Seoul (Itaewon). Which means they don’t think it’s available at the local market. So I am going to show you what it looks like (just one brand) and teach you the Korean name for brown rice.

This is the brown rice I usually get at Homeplus. It’s a 4kg bag and costs about 11,000 won.
They also do have a smaller pack(1kg bag or less as well) for about 2800 won.

“Hyun mi” is the Korean name for brown rice, so if you can’t find where it is at the super market, you can ask for it from now on. However there is also Glutinous brown rice which is “Hyun mi chap ssal” in Korean, so don’t pick that up if you want normal brown rice.

When you cook the brown rice, it is best to use a pressure cooker, if you don’t have one make sure you soak the rice before you steam or boil it.

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Yangpun Bibimbap

September 14, 2006 Category: Rice

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This is one of our favourite meals. I can proudly say that I can make it better than some restaurants too.

Yangpun is a kind of salad bowl, and Bibimbap is boiled rice with various vegetables and Gochujang sauce. People usually share the whole bowl (scoop and eat from the bowl),
so some foreigners might not like this idea, however it seems to taste nicer to me simply because we share the joy of the food together.

-Ingredients for 2 people

(Expected prep time – 5 minutes , Cooking time – 5 minutes )

For vegetables and meat (You can pretty much use any kind you want)

1 King oyster mushroom
Kimchi 20g (very small handful)
Tuna 125g
1/5 a zucchini
1/2 a medium onion
5 Sesame leaves
Soy sauce 1 tsp
Some olive oil (for pan frying some veggies)
1 egg

For Gochujang sauce (Bibimbap taste really depends on this sauce, mix these well in a bowl.)

Gochujang 1 tbsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Vinegar 1 tiny dash (make sure not to pour it out, it happens often.)
Water 5ml (1 tsp)

For meals

Steamed rice for 2 people (about 2 cups)
Sesame oil 5ml (1 tsp)

-Preparation-

Thin slice the mushroom, onion, and sesame leaves.
Cut the zucchini in half moon slices.
Slice some Kimchi.
Drain the tuna oil.

-Cooking-

1. Pan fry mushroom (There is no need to wash the pan between these steps).

2. Fry the egg.

3. Stir fry some zucchini and onion with soysauce.

4. Put some rice into a Yangpun (The big bowl).

5. Put the vegetables and meat into the Yangpun.

6. Add Gochujang sauce and sesame oil.

7. Mix them throughly.

8. Dig in

Stir Fried Calamari Rings on Rice (Ojingeo Deopbap in Korean)

Tags: Korean Food, Quick Meals, Rice, yangpun-bibimbap

Korean Kimchi fried rice with squid and tuna

September 11, 2006 Category: Rice

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People in Korea usually cook fried rice when they don’t have many ingredients left in the fridge (because it is quite simple to make with a few things), or when they need to get rid of left over vegetables.

This meal may look difficult to cook if you looked up the ingredients, however you can use minimum ingredients such as Kimchi, half an onion, some rice and oil, and Gochujang sauce to make “Kimchi fried rice”.
(Warning – This food can be spicy to people who aren’t used it.)

Ingredients for 2 people are :
(Expected preparation time: 5 min, cooking time:10 min)

fried kimchi ingredient

1/2 a medium size onion
1/2 the tuna from a 250g can
Kimchi 40g
Legs from 2 small squids (or 1/2 squid flesh)
1/5 of a zucchini
Steamed rice for 2 people
Some oil (I used oil from the tuna can)

– Preparation –

1. Cut some squid legs into medium size pieces.

2. Add seasoning to the squid and mix it well. marinating squid

-Seasoning squid with

Soy sauce -1 tsp
A sprinkle of pepper
Sugar -1 tsp
Gochujang (chili paste) -1 tsp (heaped)

3. Cut onion and zucchini into small cubes.

4. Slice Kimchi into small pieces.

–Cooking–

1. Put some oil into a wok.

2. Pan fry onion first, then add the other ingredients about every 2 minutes in the following order: zucchini, Kimchi, squid, tuna.

frying process

3. Put the rice into the wok. Stir it thoroughly with vegetables and meat. Then add the following sauce and mix it. This sauce is optional but it tastes better if you do so.

Sesame oil 1/2 tsp
Gochujang (chili paste) 1 tsp

4. Serve it on the plate.

fried kimchi work

Stir Fried Calamari Rings on Rice (Ojingeo Deopbap in Korean)

Yangpun Bibimbap

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Instant Udong Noodles

September 11, 2006 Category: Noodles

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This is very simple and easy to make. It takes about 4 minutes total.

They are my husband’s favourite instant noodles. (He thinks they are healthier than other instant noodles because the noodles are not fried.)

This is what they look like. (Official price 1,400 won, but usually 900 to 1000 won)

*Ingredients (For 1 person) :

Water 350ml (about 2 cups), 1 Instant udong noodle package

-Cooking

Step 1. Boil water in a pot, when it starts to boil, put the noodles and the liquid soup (Dark brown color in a packet) into a pot, then boil for about 2 minutes more.

Step 2. Pour out the noodles and liquid into a bowl, and add the dried vegetebles (it is wirtten as “Hureik” in Korean on the pack).

It tastes nice, however it doesn’t look quite the same as the front picture of the package.

Warning on the package – Do not keep the package in the fridge.

Shellfish and Chewy Noodle Soup (Bajirak Kalguksu in Korean)

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