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Snacking Out on a Lobster – Monday Market
Recently, there seems to have been a glut of both lobster and the most enormous ‘banana prawns’ in my market and the local supermarket. Indeed, I’ve eaten more lobster in the last week than I’ve...
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Killing Kimchi and Murdering Makgeolli!
I’ve recently posted my new video on how to make makgeolli, but before that… One of my Korean friends recently questioned the point of making makgeolli when it is so much easier to buy! Where do you...
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My Most Successful Makgeolli Recipe (1) – Mister Makgeolli
This recipe can actually be used to make four different types of rice wine. However, before you get bogged down in the confusing and ambiguous world of rice wine, why not simply try it. The recipe...
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When Homemade Makgeolli has a ‘Gluey’ Taste
Okay, don’t panic and don’t throw it away! Once makgeolli has been decanted and sugar added, several changes begin to occur. The first is that the hitherto watery consistency of makgeolli changes and...
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Mission Makgeolli – R and D for Recipe 1
I like Recipe 1 despite it being a blend between makgeolli and a dongdong-ju. The drink is refreshing, has a zing, is frothy and slightly thick though it loses the froth and thickness rapidly. As a...
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Makgeolli Troubleshooter
Failure of the inoculate to initialize – no activity takes place in the mash or it stops. This is likely to occur if the temperature is too high or some unwelcome micro-organism manage to infiltrate...
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Makgeolli Recipe 1. Quick Guide
RECIPE INGREDIENTS For an in-depth account of the process go here: Making Makgeolli – Recipe 1. (1 cup = 180ml. T = tablespoon 15ml, d = dessert spoon 10ml and t = teaspoon 5ml) 6 cups of rice...
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X Rated Foods – A Personal List of Korean Culinary Nasties
If you can eat a MacDonald’s burger you should be able to eat anything. However, the grey, dry, tasteless shite that comprises a Mac patty, which according to the docu-movie Food Inc, may contain...
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Transformed by a Weed – Shepherd’s Purse with Kimchi Stew (냉이 김치 찌개)
Kimchi Jjigae is one of the most common dishes on the Korean peninsula and while the main ingredients are basically the same, tuna, saury and pork are often added. And you can just as easily omit them!...
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Fake Cake at ‘Pathetically Bland’
It’s Friday evening at the end of what is one of the most stressful weeks in Korean education: it’s the end of semester exams. Stress in my school, has been high amongst both staff and students. At the...
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Land of the Rapidly Swelling Belly
I suppose, after almost ten years living in Korea that you begin to take things for-granted. With the arrival of summer and many teenagers wearing skin-tight, knee-length shorts, I’d forgotten just how...
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