/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17112124
jajangmyeon is pretty good

>>17112124
when i had jokbal for the first time, it was also the first time i have ever cried cuz of how good food was. i lived in korea for a bit and my fav food were jokbal, egg bread, japchae, pajeon, and banana milk (trust me on that last one)

I dunno it just seemed like they put cheese on odd things. lots of hotpots. korean bbq but besides the kimchi I'm not really seeing whats so korean about it. All in all I was entirely unimpressed but this is based off of a korean worker community in vietnam (hanoi they had their own little koreatown for all the foreign workers there) and not korea itself. I've had korean fried chicken from like 3 different places on the west coast and thought it was worst than kfc though.

Learn Thai recipes instead

>>17112124
Hamburgers.

>>17112178
ew, why.

>>17112172
oh I did like korean style chinese food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Chinese_cuisine
apparently a somewhat recent cuisine. had some really good mapo tofu

>>17112184
Thai food is good and flexible with ingredients you have on hand, Korean food is too westernized and the ingredients are specific and rigid or suddenly it’s not anything like the original dish.

>>17112124
just slap some combination of cabbage, rice cakes, pork, cheese and hot sauce together and you have literally every Korean dish.
unimaginitive sure, but my god it's fucking delicious.

>>17112164
Jokbal looks tasty. Do you generally just eat it with rice?

>>17112124
Gives you stomach cancer. Half of all Korean “cuisine” is literally rotten food covered up with copious amount of spices.
Try any other Asian country if you don’t want to have a hole in your intestines by 30

>>17112206
A little fermentation never hurt anyone

>>17112194
>t. Thai culinary board propagandist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3LCcDS-Uw

>>17112206
There he is, the obligatory retarded uninformed shit opinion poster

>queue in retarded reply by retarded poster in question

>>17112233
South Koreans have the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world

make American food from memory but give it some retarded korean twist like putting corn in a grilled cheese

>>17112233
Why is your butt so tight? anons obviously having a bit of fun. Is it due to that hole in your gut Kim?

>>17112202
usually with some side dishes. but yeah some rice, kimchi and some sauces for sure. i like ssamjang sauce

>>17112124
How have Yukgaejang and Galbi jjim not been mentioned yet? It's easy, you can slow cook it, completely delicious.

>>17112239
Came here to post this.

>>17112480
Do you put noodles in your Yukgaejang?

>>17112527
Sometimes, but mostly when I skip out on the beansprouts. I always add shiitakes and enoki but the korean grocery (H Mart) only sell bean sprouts in huge bags, far too much for me to use.

>>17112124
Try kong-guksu. It's a great summer dish.

>>17112224
Not watching that never made Pad Thai (hot peanuts = gross, not for me) stop watching YouTube explainers you little freak.
Mostly like Thai curries if I’m being honest, top tier curry paste mixes no one can outdo them in that dept

>>17112147
jajangmyeon is chinese you fucking retard

>>17112904
its a korean variation of a chinese dish, hence the term korean chinese food
thats like saying kung pao chicken is chinese food lmao

>>17112124
Cruelty is the key to all Korean food. If you're not needlessly cruel to the meat, it will not taste right.

>>17112933
and yet you have to go to a chinese resturaunt to get kung pao chicken, much like koreans do for jajangmyeon. pizza is italian and croissants are french despite burger bastardization. do better bud.

>>17112940
The other key to Korean food is being spicy.

>>17112940
>>17112955
Video for your viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp28GnSd0TA

>>17112965
And one being boiled alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6S4daLd8wg

>>17112969
Cruelty really is the (Korean) spice of life. Food for the Seoul.

>>17112948
you get it in a chinese restaurant in korea, so its korean chinese food. you get kung pao chicken and cream cheese rangoons in a chinese restaurant in america, so its american chinese food
the reason theres a distinct name difference is because the food is distinctly different
neither will be found in actual chinese food, so why call it chinese food?

>>17112124

>>17112194
>Korean food is too westernized
nope
now fuck off

>>17112991
>um it's not actually a chinese returaunt despite me myself in this post referring to it as such
I hesitantly accept your concession, I thought you'd do better. Post hand btw

>>17112988
use to live in a town in korea that served this a lot. its already dead but you salt it before you grill is and the salt causes the nerves to fire off. it literally doesnt have a head. the octopus shit is fucked tho

also kyochon is the best fried chicken in the world. if you live in the US near a big city there might be one. get the soy garlic chicken with a beer or coke. essential winter meal in sk

>>17112124
pick a japanese dish and add kimchi or red pepper paste to it and there you go, authentic original corean food.

>>17113339
japanese food originated in korea tho. just take the spice out and there you go, authentic original japanese food

>>17113347
found the corean.
It works every time.

>>17112164
>banana milk
i bought some in the store when i was there, it tasted disgustingly artificial.
cannot compare to home blended

>>17113617
yeah its not supposed to taste like actual banana. its supposed to be a sweet treat kind of thing

>>17113348
nah im a whitey. but i am biased lol

>>17113097
What's in there? Looks like some black pudding

I head bimbubpap, chinlapdup and gangdulu are pretty tasty

>>17113949
Go back to our home /biathlon/fren. You are drunk. Those are not words.

>>17113347
>>17111169
lmao. every time indeed.

>>17113724
whites don't ever self-reference themselves with "whitey", dumb gook.

>>17113957

What would I do with my life without you pretty boys <3

This kraken stuff is making me want to become a vegetarian WTF

>>17112206
yeah i'm sure it's the spices, not korea's high stress work culture, widespread binge drinking, and the fact that everybody smokes like chimneys

>>17112124
soy soy marinated crabs (ganjang gejang) and hot sauce marinated crabs (yangnyum gejang) are considered delicacies by many koreans. as a korean, i also like this dish although the proces of making the pig stew (돼지국밥) may be visually apalling for most people. the taste is great though.

>>17115731
here's what 돼지국밥 looks like

>>17112206
How the hell does rotten food and spices give you stomach cancer? If anything it would kill any stomach cancer you got due to bacteria and viral infections, which you then die from.

>>17112206
korean women have the longest lifespan in the world

>>17112124
Throw processed cheese, mayonnaise, and kimchi on literally anything and there you go

>>17112206
It's probably because they drink like maniacs, not eating fermented food

i really like Jjajangmyeon but it's a very specific kind of flavor
my wife hated it

>>17112124
They eat dogs.
>>17112206
This.

Tteokbokki was my gateway into Korean food, it's rice cakes cooked in a spicy sauce. Served with rice or noodles, some green onions for topping.
I like sprinkling corn over the top with some cheese and then broiling it until it's all gooey and delicious.

>>17114720
It's not the spices, moron. It's the fact that most of their diet comprises of fermented foods. It compounds with all the other things you mention, but eating most of your food fermented wrecks havoc on your stomach. It just becomes too much for it.
Everything in moderation, remember. Korean cuisine is unhealthy in the long term if it's all you ever eat.

>>17116110
why does korean food get a bad rep when they're healthier than any country not named japan?

>>17116110
South Korea is among the top 10 hardest-drinking countries in the entire world. Number one is Hungary I think, most of the other ones were results of Balkanization or have had messed-up history. It seems more likely that the alcoholism is the reason why their stomach cancer rates are so high.

>>17116004
Russians drink more, and harsher alcohol. Their rates aren't anywhere close to Korea's. It's the food more than any other factor.

>>17116130
Because instead of having a few staple fermented dishes like most cultures, they ferment almost every dish. Each dish is "healthy" on its own. But make your entire diet out of them and that's no longer the case, long term.

And other cultures would be healthier if their diets didn't comprise of so much processed foods. If fucking only, men can dream. But anyone raving about how Korean foods are "like, superfoods man" is a gullible idiot.

>>17116143
>top 10
>stomach cancer rates higher than anyone else
This alone proves its not simply the drinking on it's own. Soju is weak as shit compared to what the eastern euros drink too. Stop with this dumb cope meme.

>>17116155
>Russians drink more, and harsher alcohol. Their rates aren't anywhere close to Korea's. It's the food more than any other factor.
koreans live 15 years longer than russians

where's the same rant about cancer every time someone posts european food?

>>17116158
Russians have a whole laundry list of comorbid issues, m8. We're talking specifically how eating primarily fermented foods is bad for you long term. The stomach cancer, you see. If it was chiefly caused by anything else, there'd be at least one other country up with Korea at their level of stomach cancer.

>>17116185
We had an entire thread about it a few days ago, you tampon. I even fucking mentioned it two posts above you for fuck's sake. The processed foods.

>>17116206
i'm clearly not on here as much as you fucking loser.

>>17116210
hey now, you asked.
no excuse for complaining about something not being mentioned when it's mentioned two fucking posts above you however

>>17112206
Anon if i'm not putting any rotten food in my dishes how could they possibly consist of rotten food
This is a cooking board not a restaurant board, nigger

>>17116185
Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia drink above or near South Korea's rate look at the damn chart. If anything SK's love of fried chicken and fatty beef and pork cuts probably does more harm.

>>17116185
Sorry, I meant to reply to
>>17116206

Korean food at it's core is very simple because it uses the same central ingredients for everything. However it's still very delicious and accentuates what you could do with basic fresh ingredients along with fermented ingredients.

Sundaeguk, jjajangmyeon, gopchang (grilled, not soup), gamjatang, mulnaengmyeon, pajeon, suyuk/bossam, dakdoritang, dakgalbi, tteokbokki, gulbi, can't think of many more right now but these are some of the most enjoyable for me.
You should also learn how to prepare a few different banchan or types of kimchi, e.g. yeolmu or water kimchi

>>17116252
How did you mean to reply to a post that came after yours with the post that came before it?

>>17112124
>army stew
>pay $15 for instant ramen with cut up hot dogs and spam
>I’m not being dismissive, this literally what it is
>sometimes they put American cheese product on top

>>17113097
Well maybe it’s just the street food from South Korea but it doesn’t strike me as very different from some western food but whatever. Chilis are from the west so all the especially spicy stuff doesn’t seem special either. I don’t live there though so who cares what I think, take a walk

>>17116359
I've never been able to replicate the army stew broth of my favorite Korean restaurant so I always end up paying the price

>>17116185
Stomach cancer, you dumbass.

>>17116644
ALMOST ALL OF THE COUNTRIES IN THAT TABLE DRINK HARDER THAN MOST OF THE WORLD

>>17116740
And? What is your point? South Korea's stomach cancer is still leagues above all the other heavy drinking countries in the world so it's not only the alcohol at play here.

>>17112147
I really love Korean food but I could never get into jjajangmyeon, it's just so bland

>>17116761

>>17112940
This is relatively humane treatment compared to eating it straight up raw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5tY0V0agM

>>17116832
I find it to be a very inconsistent dish when ordering at restaurants

>>17116761

Mandu is good. There's this pork patty thing that's good as well, I don't remember what it's called.
The goat though? Rice and gim. Get high quality short grain rice though, and buy a few different varieties of gim. Some of the brands taste like ass. Don't put too much rice either, it shouldn't be as full as gimbap or sushi. And don't bother making them each individually with chopstick or whatever. Better to take the gim in your hand and pinch a bit of rice, then eat it immediately. If you let it sit, the steam from the rice will make the gim soggy.

>>17116864
Maybe, I've tried it around 3 or 4 times from different restaurants though

>>17115826
Maybe in the north.

Elderly women make up most of the suicides in South Korea, which leads all developed nations in suicide rate. This is due the lack of social safety net for the elderly, especially poor widows. Many widows are forced into prostitution in Seoul due to having no other emplloyment options.

>>17116847
>>17116875
>S. Korea at number 28
Real reliable clickbait source you got there, phoneposter.
https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/stomach-cancer-statistics/

>>17112124
if you can stomach it, Sundae-guk is one of the most flavourful Korean dishes I've had

>>17117255
>if you can stomach it

>>17112940
god this came real close to turning me vegan not gonna lie

>>17112124
Shit alcohol
Sushi

>>17117257
wtf is that picture lol

>>17117407
The filename, nerd.

>>17116847
Wtf is this shit totally real source. Just fucking google "stomach cancer by country" holy fucking shit.

>>17117435
ffs

Every Asian thinks their cuisine is the best food on earth but most of it's pretty nasty especially the seafood, and they eat bugs.

>>17112124
Naengmyeon, Kimchi jjigae, doenjang jjigae, pork gochujang bulgoggi

>>17117726
looks like the restaurant Daldongnae

Why do they use scissors bros?

>>17112224
>youtube explainer
commit toaster bath

>>17112124
Two fucked up delicious dishes
Fire Chicken (Buldak)
>fried chicken
>hot gochujang sauce
>half an inch of melted mozzarella

Army Stew (Budae Jjigae)
>kimchi
>ramen noodles
>spam, hot dogs, bacon or all three
>slice of American cheese

>>17112147
This goes best with a fried egg on top and a side of white onions in rice vinegar
T. Half korean

seolleongtang op

>>17112969
This gets me hard

>>17112194
>Korean food is too westernized
You have no idea what the fuck youre talking about. Korean food takes it where the jap niggers wish they took it if they werent so autistic

>>17120386
ease up on the delusion there, Heung.

Kimchi Stew
- Saute in large stock pot:
>2 shallots
>2-3 cloves of garlic
>1 onion
>3/4-1 cup of kim-chi
>1-3 tsp of chili paste
- Caramelize meat in pan (3/4 kg -1kg of either stew beef or pork) with some butter and vegetable oil
- Add meat to stock pot. Add:
>1 container of beef or pork stock (900ml)
>3-4 tbsp of fish sauce
>3-4 tbsp of soy sauce
>1 tbsp of seasame seed oil
>1-3 tbsp of deglazed pan drippings
>1/2 - 3/4 cup cubed tofu
>3 green onions diced
>1/4-1/2 cup cilantro (optional)
>vegetables (optional — broccoli, spinach, cauliflower)
- bring to boil
- reduce and let simmer for 30min

Serve by itself or with rice, which you can dump into your bowl.

>>17112124
>educate me on Korean food.
you marinate pork in 7up! eat with kimchi! yum yum!