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Lee Jung-hyun’s myeongran potato pizza uses flattened boiled potatoes instead of pizza dough. Salted pollock roe, mayonnaise and mozzarella go on top before a short oven finish. The recipe comes from KBS Fun-staurant Episode 231, and its most useful detail is the order: cook the potatoes fully first, then melt the toppings.What is myeongran potato pizza?Myeongran is salted pollock roe. In this d..
Read story ↗Nam Yoon-su’s soy milk chicken soup uses bite-sized chicken, unsweetened soy milk and three kinds of mushrooms. Despite the Korean recipe title duyu samgyetang, the published ingredient list does not call for a whole stuffed chicken, glutinous rice or ginseng. If you are looking for the version from KBS Fun-staurant, start with this distinction.Photo: KBS Fun-staurant.The ingredients in the offi..
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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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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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Soyeon’s “kimchi-less kimchi pancake” keeps the kimchi liquid and leaves out the cabbage pieces. That is why the name sounds contradictory. The idea appeared on MBC’s I Live Alone in May 2022, when she explained that she disliked vegetables. It is a celebrity home-cooking idea, not a restaurant recommendation.Read MBC’s story about Soyeon’s dish →Why Soyeon made it this wayMBC’s report contrasts..
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Jung Kook’s Bulguri combines Buldak and Neoguri noodles, with all the Buldak liquid sauce but only half the Neoguri soup powder. He posted the recipe on BTS Weverse on March 16, 2023. The photo above is from that post, rather than our own recreation.Read Jung Kook’s original recipe and photo →The original cooking method, in EnglishHeat 650–680ml water in a frying pan.Before it boils, add the ful..
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