Tina Shin in Korea

See how to make Potato pancakes (Gamjacheon) on YOUTUBE. Today, we are making Potato pancakes . Not only adults but also kids like these. We are making soy sauce with hot pepper. This sauce is the main point in this cooking. Potato pancakes (Gamjacheon) is not a side dish.  (Side dish means a dish with rice) It is more like a snack for Korean. When it's raining, we eat potato pancakes, kimchi pancakes and Leek pancakes and so on. Especially, It tastes better with Makgeolli, Korean rice wine. Ingredients (7~8 servings) Potato pancakes : 14~15 Potatoes, flour, cooking oil. You need some grater for grating potatoes. Soy sauce with hot pepper : Soy sauce, 3~4 hot peppers, sesame seed Directions 1. Grate peeled potatoes It took longer than I thought. My cousin(man) and ungle grate very hard. 2. Put the glutinous rice flour. You can put just flour.  3. Mix them well If it is watery, p...

[With drinks] Fish Cake Soup (eomuk guk) 어묵국 Hello, I'm Tina Shin. We are making Fish Cake Soup (eomuk guk) 어묵국 which is soup with fish cake. When we make fish cake soup, we need the fish cake first.  Fish cake is originally made with vegetables(onions, carrots, etc), egg white, seafood (white fish, shrimp), some flour and salt. But these days, there are lots of fish cake made in factories. It has more starch than homemade fish cake does.  Busan is famous for fish cake. My older brother lives there so he bought me some Busan fish cake. So today, I will make the fish cake soup with factory one. Plus, making fish cake at home is a little bothersome....  <Food culture in Korea - Fish Cake Soup (eomuk guk) 어묵국> 1) Lots of street carts have 'Fish Cake Soup (eomuk guk) 어묵국' because it goes well with Stir-fried Rice Cake(Tteok-bokki).  - Before you eat it, you ask 'how much a piece?'. And then 'First eat, Pay later'. You could eat as you w...