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Do Kyung-wan’s “bouncy janchi-guksu” replaces wheat noodles with thin strips of cheongpomuk, Korean mung-bean starch jelly. The hot broth, zucchini and seaweed still give the bowl the familiar structure of Korean noodle soup. KBS presents the Episode 343 recipe as a menu tailored to Jang Yoon-jeong; it is not a conventional somyeon recipe.What to buy: jelly, not glass noodlesLook for 청포묵 (cheong..
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Lee Jung-hyun’s cabbage pasta uses cabbage in place of pasta noodles. Her Fun-staurant recipe pairs 400g of cabbage with shrimp and mushrooms, then finishes them in a milk sauce with Korean chili powder, cheddar and Parmesan. The important first step is browning the cabbage before adding the sauce.There are no pasta noodles in the ingredient listThe name describes how the cabbage is used. KBS te..
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Nam Yoon-su’s egg-mayo sandwich starts with three beaten eggs in the microwave, rather than a pot of hard-boiled eggs. KBS calls it a “3-minute egg-mayo sandwich,” but those three minutes refer to the microwave step: trimming the bread, mixing the filling and assembling it still come afterwards.What goes into the sandwich?The official Fun-staurant Episode 231 recipe uses two slices of sandwich b..
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