My Ramen Disaster
Malcolm Jolley’s noodle tragedy in pictures. To cook is to know disaster. Anyone who cooks...
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Tag: Koreatown
Kimchi Jjigae
From my, albeit limited, experience I have surmised that the dividing line between soup and stew...
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Gamjatang or Pork Bone Soup
Gamjatang is colloquially translated on menus as “pork bone soup”, which makes sense since it’s composed of a broth made from porcine ossein. The menus describe these pig parts as “pig neck”, which appears anatomically correct, though I think it may include some vertebrae below the shoulders. The literal translation of gamjatang, though, is “potato soup”, and spuds make up the second main ingredient (an Asian rarity – at least on this side of the Pacific).
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