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Make Lee Jung-hyun’s basic soy sauce first; add the chilies only when making the spicy version. The official recipe for KBS’s 편스토랑, episode 180, describes two versions, not a single sauce that requires every listed ingredient from the beginning.This K-Star Check explains the published sequence for home cooks rather than reporting a personal cooking test. The distinction matters most at two point..
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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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