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Korean music, faces and stories worth knowing.
Ryu Soo-young’s eomuk jeyuk turns flat Korean fish cakes into a spicy stir-fry with browned spring onions, garlic and sesame oil. Despite the word jeyuk, this version contains no pork. The key is the heat sequence: char the spring onion first, switch the heat off before adding chili flakes, then return to medium heat for the fish cakes.Ingredients: start with 200g of fish cakesThis follows the i..
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Yoon Yoo-sun’s eggplant rice bowl uses the same sauce at two different stages: half goes into the pan with water, and the rest goes over the assembled bowl. That makes it both a cooking sauce and a finishing sauce—not two separate mixtures, and not two additions during frying.📌 Original Korean recipe: KBS Fun-staurant official recipeWhy divide the sauce instead of adding everything at once?In t..
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Jin Seo-yeon’s oatmeal mushroom risotto uses two handfuls of oats, 400 ml almond milk and 1 tablespoon of red snow crab fish sauce, with mushrooms cooked into the base and a separate balsamic mushroom topping. Below is an English explanation of the KBS Episode 204 recipe, keeping its cooking order and informal oat measure rather than inventing a gram conversion.Photo: KBS Fun-staurant, Episode 2..
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