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Monday, 29 September 2008

Ingredient Notes 1: Key items for the cupboard

So this will be an ongoing post, starting small and growing (I hope) into a useful guide on items to keep stocked up on if you plan on doing a fair bit of K Cuisine. I'm putting photos up so that when I start referring to "myol chi this" or "go ju that" you will be able to check back here and see what I am referring to...














Above. Left: Myol Chi (fish sauce), Centre: Korean soy sauce,
Right: 2 bae yang jo shik cho (double fermented vinegar)















Above: Left: Mat Kimchi, Right: Go ju Jang red sauce














Above: Dwaen Jang (Soya bean paste)



















Above: Gochu garu red chilli powder


















Cham kirum (Korean sesame oil)


































OK. Pay close attention to the two pictures above: top one: Da shi da (fish powder) bottom one: Da shi ma (type of seaweed). Similar names (you can see from the names on the packet even if you don't read Hangul) but totally different products .....both of them I recommend you keep in the cupboard.

3 comments:

danielle said...

Thank you for this brilliantly practical post. I am off to the store tomorrow evening to stock my cupboard with the things I don't have. I already have sesame oil, the gochujang, and Korean soy sauce. So only a few other things to pick up! And do you think kim (the dried seaweed) should be on the list? I feel like everything has that in it, or on top of it, or wrapped around it! Hehe. Of course, I do realize this is part I. I'll shut up now. I don't belong in the kitchen!!!

Claire and Enda's Wedding said...

Yep definately kim should be one...when I saw your post I though darn I don't have any in the cupboard but actually I do.. so I'll put it up later.

I'm going to have a special ingredient note seaweed section eventually explaining the different kinds and what you need them for...and another one for mushrooms...I am like a kid at Christmas! do I have to do a day job damn it?

Claire and Enda's Wedding said...

Oh and I am hoping you will provide me with a guest blog in due course! Perhaps Kenny's mum can teach you something and then I can thief it off you.ha ha