Teriyaki Beef (Bulgogi)

I LOVE meaet.

I am the persone who can't understand why there's such a thing like veggie pizza exists.

My wife is always worried about me eating too much meat.

So, there's another meat dish.

This time, it's beef.

Ingredients: Beef 1lbs. Green, yellow, red peppers (any of them about 1 ea), mushroom (as much as you want), carrot(half), green onion(just a little bit), soy sauce(5 table spoons), Cooking wine(optional), pepper(little bit), garlic(powder, minced, or crushed, 2 table spoons), Sugar(1table spoon)

1. All the vegies must be chopped and beef should be sliced.

(The thinner the meat, the better it will taste.)

I really like onions, but I couldn't find any at home.

2. Put soysauce, pepper, garlic, sugar, cooking wine into the meat and mix it well.

Wrap the container and let it sit for about an hour.

(I usually prepare it the night before and put it in the fridge.

That way, the meat absorbs everything around it)

3. Cook it on the frying pan(no oil needed)

Once the meat is half-cooked, put green peppers in.

4. Put it on a dish and enjoy.

Grilled Chicken Teriyaki (dak bulgogi)

The other day, my mom went shopping with my wife and bought us a huge pack of chicken meat. So, we decided to make some Chicken Bulgogi.

Bulgogi is a Korean dish, which you marinate the meat in sauce and grill it on a pan.

It's one of my favorite dish.

There are many variations on Bulgogi, some like it very hot and spicy, and some mild and sweet.

Southern part of Korea, where I am from, people make it really hot and spicy. We add lots of red pepper powder.

But As you go north, the food becomes mild and sweet.

I also like it hot, but today, we will make it somewhat mild and sweet for our Americal fellows.

Oh, one thing before we start.

My mom is a really good cook and I try to learn from her.

However, in her recipe, everything is always so vague.

I would ask her, 'mom, how can you make this?'

And she would answer, "Oh, that's so easy. You put a little bit of salt, and a little bit of sugar, and tiny bit of soy sauce, and ..."

For her, everything is so little bit that I can't comprehend so much.

I am trying to be as precise as possible, but just want to let you know sometimes, it's really hard.

Well, here it goes.

Ingredients: Chicken (1.5lbs) Soy sauce(5 tbsp) Sugar(2 tbsp) onion garlic salt and pepper, and veggies of your choice

1. Either you choose boneless, skinless chicken, or you separate meat out of bone. And cut it in about the size of meatball. (1.5 lbs)

2. One thing is, if you don't like the distinct smell of chicken, you can soak it in milk for 30 minutes. The meat will be tenderized and the meat odor will be gone.

3. You need to make the sauce.

Mix two table spoons of sugar, five table spoons of soy sauce, hint of salt and pepper, 1/2 table spoon of minced or powdered garlic, and a quater of minced onoin.

Put everything in a mixer and mix it well.

4. Put the sauce on the meat and mix well. Let it sit for 20 minutes. (If longer than 20 minutes, the meat juice will be out of the meat because of osmosis, and your meat wouldn't be as good)

5. Put 2 spoons of cooking oil on a pan and grill it until the outside of the meat is brown.

Oh, I am not really a veggie lover, but you can grill your favorite veggies with the meat, too.

Good veggies to go with are onions, cabage, green pepper, etc.

OKay, I lied.... You DO need some secret ingredients in every Korean food.

In the introduction of my blog, I wrote that we won't use any secret ingredients that only few Koreans know about.





Well, although it IS possible to make some Korean food without any oriental ingredients, you really need some basic stuff to cook Korean food.





SUCH AS: SOY SAUCE, GARLICS, SESAME OIL..





Well, most of which you can buy from Wal-Mart or other grocery stores.





But If you want to go hardcore, and try the real taste of oriental cuisine, I hereby introduce to you "The Chao's."





The Chao's is a small grocery store run by a Chinese lady.

It's on University Parkway.(77 N University Pkwy)

It is so small that you might miss it first time.

If you look closer to the picture, you will see big Chinese charaters in Yellow on the red background.

Although it's run by Chinese people, they do have variety of Korean and Japanese food.

And if you are lucky, they have fresh veggies on sale sometimes cheaper than other big superstores.

The only drawback is that they close early, 6:30.

Also, there's another grocery store in Orem.

They are run by a Korean couple.

It's called 1st Oriental Market.

They have wide variety of Korean and Japanese food.

Their tofu is always cheaper than any other place in town.

And this is the only place in Orem/Provo area that you can buy real Kimchi, a famous Korean dish.

It's on 286 N. State St. Orem

The store sits on back, so you can't really see it from the street.

Holloween is coming! What am I gonna do with the pumpkin meat after making the Jaco-o-lanterns?

Alright! I guess Holloween is coming.

I am not really familiar with American holidays.

But the best way to know about the holidays is just to go Wal-mart.

They put out all kinds of costumes for upcoming Holloween, and right after that, they have Christmas stuff. And then right after christmas, Wal-mart puts out all pink, heart-shaped cholcolates to prepare for Valentine's Day.

and then Easter, then July 4th, and so on......

I see orange pumpkins everywhere, and some houses are decorated with scary stuff.

One thing I don't like about Holloween is pumpkin pie.

I like almost all American food, but pumpkin pie is not likable somehow.

But in Korea, we have this amazing pumpkin pancake called 'Ho-bak-Jun' that is so easy and simple to make.

Things we need: orange pumpkin, flour(two-three spoons), salt(a little), and sugar(as much as you need)

Cooking time: less than 20 min

1. cut the inner part of pumpkin(pumpkin meat I guess) and slice it like shredded cheeze.

Well, If you don't REALLY have time for this, you can put it in a mixer and grind it. but this will make the meat too moist.

2. Add just a hint of salt to add taste to the pumpkin, and add two tablespoonful of sugar into the mix as well.

* you can also add sugar later when you actually cook it, but it's up to you.

3. Add the flour into the pumpkin and mix it really well with your hands.

4. put a little bit of cooking oil on your pan and turn the fire on middle.

5. And put a chunk of flour-mixed-pumpkin on to the pan and grill it

just like you would cook make a pancake.

If both side is nice golden orange like this picture, you are done.

***Oh, one thing!!

If you are a real sugar-lover, you can sprinkle sugar on the pancake while it's hot so that it will have a thin coat on the surface.

YumYum It's really delicious.