korean food pages

  1. spicy grilled chicken and vegetables

    Dakgalbi (Spicy grilled chicken and vegetables)

    Dakgalbi is a delicious, spicy grilled chicken dish that’s a popular choice for friends who are getting together to go out to eat. In Korea it’s communal dish that’s cooked and shared among a small, intimate group of people, so it naturally stimulates conversation and a good time. It’s impossible to eat dakgalbi in silence! […]

  2. Cooking wine (Mirim)

    This sweet wine (called mirin in Japanese) is not an everyday seasoning for me, but it comes in handy to enhance a dish and give it a bit of concentrated sweetness, or to remove undesirable odors from fish and meat and make them even more delicious. It can also be used in marinades as a […]

  3. Sweet red bean jelly (Yanggaeng)

    Yanggaeng is one of my favorite Korean snacks. I love the texture of the sweet, soft, smooth, and blended silky beans and I much prefer this over any kind of chocolate. When I was young, and going on a school picnic, my mom used to give me a little money to buy a snack or something […]