Ketchup on the side is totally optional but kid-friendly. (Photo by Tammy Quackenbush) Korean fusion cooking is not a one-way street where Westerners tinker with Korean dishes to make them more appealing to Westerners. Koreans also have “fusion” recipes, in which they have Korean-ized either Western or Japanese dishes. I lightly sauteed the vegetables before…
Mi-sook recommends: Korean-style food blog
Korean-style food blog is the food blog of KOREA.net, which is the official website of the Republic of Korea, aka South Korea. Korea.net is the Korean government’s official English website and run by the Korean Culture and Information Service (KOIS), an arm of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. If you want to know…
Recipe: Fresh Japanese cucumber crab side salad by Soo Chef
I recently found San Francisco-based Soo Chef during my occasionally expeditions on YouTube to discover new Korean cooking videos for you. She has posted several Korean- and Japanese-style cooking videos on her new YouTube channel. Her Twitter feed, blog and channel debuted on Aug. 26. I usually post a cooking video every other month, but…
Chuncheon chicken wings recipe in Food52 contest
Chuncheon wings plated with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks. (Photo by Jeff Quackenbush) I entered my Chuncheon chicken wings recipe in Food52‘ Your Best Chicken Wings contest. Please check out mine and the other recipes entered, and vote for me. Food52 is hosted by Amanada Hesser and Merril Stubbs. They’ve already published a cookbook…
Faster fermentation: Does kimchi primed make kimchi before its time?
Do you jump-start the kimchi or let nature take its course? The choice is yours. (Photo by Jeff Quackenbush) Chef Hector Marroquin of Pupusa Griddle in St. Helena, Calif., continues to perfect his kimchi recipe. He sent me this message on Sept. 13 from Facebook: I made about three gallons of kimchi…. I used about…
Video restaurant review: Dong Baek Korean Restaurant in San Francisco
Native San Franciscan Sabrina Gee Shin took her Korean husband, mother-in-law and two sons to check out Dong Baek Korean Restaurant located at 631 O’Farrell St., near San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In the video she said, “There are only a few good Korean restaurants in San Francisco, and Dong Baek makes the list! The menu…
Behind the scenes: Eat Real Festival 2010 video
My husband and I attended the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 29, 2010, the last day of the event. This was the fourth Koreafornian Cooking video we recorded outside the confines of my father-in-law’s kitchen. Shooting outdoors adds several layers of challenges to the movie-making process, including problems…
Namu hosts ‘rogue market’ with County Line Market on Sept. 12
Namu’s booth at the San Francisco Ferry Building. (Tammy Quackenbush photo) Neo-Korean restaurant Namu in San Francisco will host a weekly “rogue market” in cooperation with Petaluma’s County Line Market at Namu’s Inner Richmond district location on Sunday, Sept. 12, from noon to 3 p.m. County Line is a “35-acre certified-organic farm that is in…
Korean cuisine can own the food world
U.S. Foodservice, one of the largest foodservice distributors in the U.S., conducted a survey asking chefs and consumers for their top trends for pork and poultry dishes. Here are the top 10, and I’ll show you examples of centuries-old Korean foods — as well as a few modern Korean twists) have the opportunity to own…
Eat some rice in September
September in the U.S. is National Rice Month, created in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush to promote consumption of American-grown rice. According to the U.S. Rice Council, about 80 percent of domestically grown rice is consumed by domestic customers. The other 20 percent ends up in foreign markets, mostly in Central America and Japan….