Category: Japanese/Korean

Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Noodles and Pasta

Korean Glass Noodles – Fried

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Been on an East Asian binge lately. Bought this from NTUC Finest. It’s Korean sweet potato noodles, much like the normal glass noodles or what the Malays called ‘su-un’.

When I searched a recipe to make use of this, I only found one called ‘japchae’. It is sooo time consuming. Every ingredient is tossed in soy sauce and sesame oil individually! I did the very Singaporean thing instead.

After boiling the noodles for a minute till they are done, I fried them in garlic and oil, the usual style and seasoned with a bit of soy sauce. And I used thinly sliced beef too. For the beef, I marinated them in Korean hot paste, soy sauce, pepper and garlic.

 

Asian Dishes, Japanese/Korean, Rice

Inarizushi

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Still going strong on a Jap theme here, I made inarizushi this afternoon. It’s pretty simple to make. The way I was taught by a relative who lives in Japan is to use konbu water, Japanese soy sauce and a teaspoon of sugar added last. The mixture must be thick and syrupy and the longer you boil the tofus in, the nice it’ll be.

My version was boil water, add light and dark soy sauce, and a bit of Indonesian kicap manis, and then boil it till the mixture is evaporated. Squeeze to get rid of the excess sauce once the tofus are done. But before that, make sure you boil the tofus to ‘de-oil’ them, if that makes sense.