Korean traditional dumpling "Mandoo"

"Mandoo" is a korean traditional dumpling. It's very easy to make and can be prepared in large quantities in advance. Usually, in winter, my mother cooked Mandoo a lot and stored in the freezer for next time use. We can share Mandoo with our family but also our neighbors. This custom has something to do with Korean food sharing culture which is called "JUNG(affection)". Mandoo is mainly made with a beef or pork filling, and we can make mandoo with a Kimchi or vegetables. It can be steamed, boiled, pan-fried. We can cook Mandoo in a variety of ways. When I was a high school students, I ate a lot of Mandoo Because of our teacher. In YA-JA time(self study time at night in school), our teacher used to offer Mandoo to students for late-night snack. It was sooooooo yummy!! Actually, Mandoo is my favorite food!!! :)

Pajeon

When it is rainy day outside, most Korean people think Pajeon and Korea traditional drink "Makgeolli". And sometime my mother put in squids at the Pajeon so i really like it. Pajeon's recipe require flour and onion and some seafood. And this materials put in the bowl and mix them.
And then this mixture roasts at the frying pan. So it is really easy to cook Pajeon.

Bibimbap

Bibimbap is one of the most common foods in Korea. It is easy to cook but so nutritious. It usually contains eggs and many vegetables such as carrots, mushrooms, radishes, bean sprouts or so on. These ingredients are easy to prepare. Except these, any other vegetables available are fine with Bibimbap. Vegetables are set on rice in a bowl. On the top of them, eggs are added. Then, mix them together with hot pepper paste. This is regular Bibimbap. There are other kinds of ones, too. It depends on what is topped on it. Instead of eggs, as in regular one, meat, raw fish or fish eggs can be served. Bibimbap is one of my favorite foods. In spring, it is easy to acquire fresh vegetables. Why don’t you cook Bibimbap on your own this weekend?
I'll cook for my famaily. :)

Rabokyi(rice cake noodles)

Rice cake is general food in korea. and Rabokyi is rice cake that add noodles. if you go flour based food restaurant, you can eat it.

It is hot and delicious. and you feel the taste differently rice cake, noodles.

Many people like it and i like too.


recipe
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1.Put 2 cups of water in a pot.

2.Put red peper flour 2 big spoon, pepper souce 2 big spoon, soy sauce 2 big spoon, millet jelly 4 big spoon, sesame oil 1 big spoon.

3.boil them

4.start water boiling, put rice cake and fish paste in pot.

5.stir them while boiling

6.put the noodles. if you want, you can put boiled eggs.

7.After a few minutes finsh!

Hongeo Hoe

Hongeo hoe is principal product of Jeolla-do district. We usually call it Hong Tak .
I’m not from Jeolla-do and I’ve never eaten

Hong Tak but I’ve heard that this food’s smell is very offensive, kind of sourish.

The reason for this smell is that it's important part of making course is keeping skate idle in vinegar. So some people can't eat Hong Tak because of the smell.

But this food is actually very high quality food and in Jeolla-do’s party, this food is very important part of party’s food. And people who love this food usually said It's hard to try just first time.

I really want to try this if I get a chance.

Shredded Pork with Green Peppers

Ingredients:
300 grams (0.66 lb) pork tenderloin
100 grams (0.22 lb) green peppers
5 grams (5/6 tsp) salt
1 gram (1/4 tsp) MSG
10 grams (2 tsp) mixture of cornstarch and water
100 grams (7 tbsp) cooking oil
1 egg white
10 grams (2 tsp) cooking wine
25 grams (1 1/2 tbsp) water
Directions:
1. Cut the meat into shreds 6 cm (2.4 inches) long and 0.3 cm (0.12 inch) thick and wide. Put in a bowl. Add 1 g ( 1/6 tsp) of salt and stir until mixture becomes sticky. Add the egg white and dry cornstarch and mix well. Cut the green peppers into shreds of similar size to the meat.
2. Heat the oil to 110-135ºC (230-275ºF) and stir-fry the pork shreds until they are done. Take out and drain off the oil.
3. Put 25 g (1 2/3 tbsp) of oil in the wok and stir-fry the shredded green peppers for one minute. Add the shredded pork, cooking wine, salt, MSG and water, and bring to boiling point. Put in the mixture of cornstarch and water to thicken the sauce. Take out and serve.
Features: The meat is white with a light pink tinge. While the peppers are invitingly green.
Taste: The shredded pork is tender and the green peppers crispy. The dish is salty to the right taste.

Kimchi pancake!

Kimchi pancake!

Sometimes I cook it and eat with soju. Specially when it's rainning it tastes better than any days XD

Ingredients : sour kimchi, eggs, milk, wheat flour and kimchi juice.

cut kimchi. Mix wheat flour(3 amounts of paper cup) and 2 eggs and milk(1 amount of paper cup) and kimchi juice(half amount of paper cup) and kimchi~! with 150ml.

Put on the hot frying pan. Cook and try to make thin with a middle fire. Overturn and cook the same way. Finish!

Ofcourse you can add some shrimp or squid whatever you want.

Popular Snack in Korea - Chicken-Kochi (Skewered Chicken Barbecue)

Chicken-Kochi is one of the most popular snacks in Korea. It's made from some piece of chicken, a few piece of garlic, some pepper and sweet chilli sauce with a wooden shewer. You can find it in the snack bar on the almost every street in Korea. Also it's not expensive. How wonderful, huh?

Popular Korean food - Gimbap

Gimbap is a popular Korean food made from steamed white rice, and various other ingridients rolled in gim. The ingridients include cocumbers, spinach, danmuji, ham and etc. Gimbap is served in bite size slices so you can eat it easily.
Gimbap is eaten during picnics, and for light snacks. It is very delicious. You should definitely try it if you visit Korea.

june's gripe about my family.

Actually,

There's no gripe to my family now..

But when i was young boy

about 13years.. I'm much stressed by my mother.

She always say

"Do you finish the home work?

Why don't you take the vegetable?

Tt's time to bad, finish the game"

At that time.. It's so annoying to me..

but.. now... i think it's all for me..

I LOVE YOU MOM,,,

my gripe is...

about my brother, he and me have 10years old gap. so sometimes he seems cute. however his doing drive me crazy. I live dormitary, so i go home weekend my father and mother plesure that i come but my brother look at me! just play computer game.

i think he is game addicter. when i do computer, he always come close and say "i play game. stop computer." if i don't stop, he hit me(i want to hit him,,, but can't) or go to mother and say "mom he is much time using computer maybe he using computer 4hour!"(oh my god, i using 30minute)

i love my brother but this make me hate brother.

My Dream - Ann

I want to be a art teacher.
To be an art teacher, I draw a painting hard everyday.
Drawing is very important for me.
When I draw a painting, I feel happy.
When I look at painting, I feel calm.
also, teaching student is pleasant.
I want to be an art teacher after I graduate quickly.

My family gripe is

My family gripe is about my little sister.
She and I stay away from our parents' house
since it is kind of hard to commute from there to school.
My dad asked me to take care of her.
So, I'm sort of responsible for her.
It's not burdensome since we get along together.
She is nice and listens to me.

But sometimes I feel like she is less considerate on me.
We have to handle our chores on our own like laundry, cleaning or meals.
But sometimes she forgets about them.

Then, most of them pass over to me.
I'm leading the busiest days than I've ever lived.
These trivial but essential works make me feel a little stressed.
Except for it, I love her so much.
She is a little spoiled, but that’s what makes her pretty.

ECo's Future.

when i was kid, my dream is spaceship's captain. Cuz i want to go everywhere with my ship and fight alien. but In reallity, it is impossible. so, i change my dream. It is ad's preduction. Today, Many ad make, change, remake, and some is gone one of them. Spread and is known people. So, In country, when ad blow up. Good sold out everywhere. and it have conpany's money, Honor and Power. For exemple KT. KT is telebanking company. It is so small first. But Amazing stroy's ad is made bt KT. It is Olleh!! Today, everyone know olleh and use KT. It is unbelievable effet. and professinal production called it marketing effet. So, i feel and sure that i have ability which make ad. i think that i have creativity and imagination. So, If i learn some skill that make ad, some year. i make sure i will do it. It is so hard to reach there. However, i will try myself after going army, i promis myself, In 10 year. I can do IT!!!!!!!!!!!1

Raymond's gripe about my parents

Actually I don't have serious gripes with my family. Yeah I know, gripe is not included serious thing. If I had to find a gripe, I would say a little gripe.
As far as I remember that story is about lunch box when I was in the lower grades in elementary school.
Usually Korean pupils like fast food, frozen food and instant food such as ham. Also I was normal pupil, so I wanted to eat as well. However my mom let me eat organic vegetables. Also I was good for health especially growing period. But at that time, I didn’t care about that boring fact. I just had gripe about my lunch box. So, rarely my mom allowed me to eat that sort of junk food, when I had her make me that.
Nowadays, I thank to my mother. Sometimes I saw some people didn’t eat traditional vegetable dishes even if adults.

Mark's gripe

I have gripe to my parents.

When i was high school student, my parents said if i get a drive license, they will give to me their car. I really like to drive car and motorbike, so i was excited. After i took a Korea S.A.T, i get a drive license. It was really hard and tiresome........... T.T But i was happy because i can drive any car. But my parents said under the 26 years old, car insurance very expensive, so when i will be 26 years old, they will give a car to me. I was very angry so i drive my mother's car secretly sometime.

Listen to this Kid!

Gripes - Hyunsook

"Have you read that book I've recommended?"

"I will... sooner or later dad." I said defiantly, irritated by his demanding tone. Truthfully, it was nearly a month since I've put off reading that book, but my dad was evermore persistent. Whenever it came to his mind, he brought up the topic. So out of annoyance and tiredness, I finally read it.

To be honest, I skipped through the book trying to finish the task fast. You might think I was being stubborn, but I really didn't like the book - the tone was too light, the contents containing no particular message. I couldn't understand my father's enthusiasm toward it, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings just because of a book, so I decided to read it anyway.

When I was finished, he asked me to tell him about the points made in the book that kept my interest. I was worried whether he'll notice that I didn't thoroughly read the book, but I went through it well until my mom started to criticize few points I have made about the book. My dad strangely tensed as he heard her criticisms. Then he rebuked some of her points while she fought back in return. It went on and on until a strange unpleasant undercurrent ran through them.

Was that book so important as to break the peace of my parents? absolutely not. And it wasn't a matter of stupid book, but was about mutual respect.

'RESPECT'

Sarah's gripe

Actually I have gripes to my father

My father is very considerate. But some part of considerate makes me annoy. He always worries about me so he keeps talking his worry. But most of them are things that I heard many times before.
And he doesn’t like me to listening music when I’m studying. I know that’s not good but sometimes, especially when I get stressed, it’s very helpful.
That’s my all gripe to my father. And now I can understand him why he did like that.

Lee's griping :(

honestly, I had a griping just like the other guys when I was in high school. I though my parents meddled in everything. That's my only griping. My parents are so busy, cause they are government servant. Fortunatley I love to be alone so it's a good thing to me. So it couldn't be a gripping. Maybe I'm in bright side or just not enough diligent to gripe XD

Lee's secret dream :)

OMG! It slipped my mind! sorry!

Ok, let go.

I always desire to be a great wriiter like Goethe.

I hope the things that I say can help the other people's mental health.

But it's quite, no it's very difficult to be that.

Most people say "Genius is made of 99%'s effort, and 1% gift"

but it's not suitable to be a great writter.

Gift is very important, unfortunately.

But i'm no quitter. Eventhough it's a just secret dream, I will do my best in my life.

A school girl Seny's gripe :(

When I was a middle school student, my father never lets me have the highlighter. I wore glasses since I was a nine years olds, and the highlighter is made of very bright colours. May be my father thought it is not good for my eyes. Now I understand my father, but it was very weird for me at that time. -14years old, Seny

Seny's secret(really?) dream... :)

Actually, I can't think about my secret dream. It is very difficult question to me but, I have a one thing. When I travled South Australia, I stayed at small city just for one night. There was any backpackers, so I stayed at small lodge which is located in the farm.

At night time, after taking a shower, I saw the sky. There were sooooooooooooooooo many stars in the sky, and also I could see the milky way. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing for me, so I thought I will come back here with my husband and child in the future. It is my secret dream, but now it's not secret dream any more, because I already wrote down in this blog, T.T but It doesn't matter. The stars in the sky are still twinkling in my mind... :)

five things about ken

hi^^

my name is ken^^

i will tell you my favorite things.

1. i like soccer. i like playing and watching both. i like manchester united. because there is korean player ji sung park. he made a goal last league game against riverpool. anyway i like soccer very much so when i was highschool my team participate strret festival.

2. i like my friends especially high school friends. now we are all university students so we don't have much time to meet each other. but we meet once a month. we are very friendly and i want our friendship forever^^

3. i like coffee. cafe mocha is my favorite coffee. i always drink coffee after lunch. it makes me comfortable. yesterday ann bought coffee for me thankyou^^

4. i like samgupsal. it's my favorite food. when i was highschool. i ate samgupsal once a week with my friends. it's very delicious.

5. i like walking. it makes me refresh. whenever i walk i think my future and my life. so it bring me new mind. but since i enter the university i don't have a time to walk because i have a lot of homework.^^