Bibimbap!
Thanks to Eva‘s excellent advice, today I finally found my way to the mythical hidden Asian grocery store behind Woolie’s Town Hall. (Take the first left past Platform 9 3/4, basically.) I was able to get both Korean ingredients that I’ve been having trouble finding: gochujang (spicy bean paste) and “kucho karu” (really hot chili flakes). With these, I was finally able to put together some bibimbap! It’s basically rice with a bunch of veggies and meat on top. For the veg, I had carrots, zucchini, spinach, and mung bean sprouts. Each one was blanched and then seasoned with garlic, sesame oil, and salt. The beef was thinly sliced sirloin that we wok fried with garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and black pepper. I also got a fresh daikon and made some fresh daikon salad to go on the side. Then we mixed a bit of gochujang through, and YUMMO! Now I just need to get some stone bowls so we can do dolsot bibimbap and put a fried egg on top.
clare
February 6, 2007 — 4:47 pm
Nice!
I have a great Kimchee jigae recipe if you would like
Kris
February 6, 2007 — 5:22 pm
Ooh, please e-mail it!
clare
February 6, 2007 — 6:09 pm
It’s sent, the subject is kimchee soup 🙂
M-H
February 7, 2007 — 7:20 am
Haaaa haaaa. Just what I needed first hing int he morning (fell free to delete this – it refers to the spam comment above. ) 🙂
Kris
February 7, 2007 — 7:35 am
Damn spammers. I deleted them all. Which one was it? The lesbo something or other? 🙂
jussi
February 7, 2007 — 7:53 am
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Eva
February 10, 2007 — 11:57 pm
hehe! glad to be of service… oh and by the way, if you’re interested there is a bit of Korea-town on Pitt street between Golburn and Liverpool, just before you hit world square… (2 Korean grocery stores, a Korean billboard, couple of restaurants, karaoke and Korean beauty shops, internet cafe, vegetarian restaurant) etc..