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🤣 That comment will get me through my entire boring afternoon workshop ... Thank you !!!

To be honest, I did not even notice that before ... Seems like a special edition for the World Cup. I would ask, but as a German I am too proud to discuss the World Cup with a Korean at the moment 😉

From the popular installment "Canteen meals in rural Korea" today part 14a: Ulsan. Kimchi, more Kimchi, bean sprout salad, pork patties with egg & spring onion, some local fish stewed with Kimchi, rice with beans and seaweed soup. Dessert was the Korean version of Yakult.

Arrived today in the small Korean city of Ulsan, where we are going to have a workshop in the upcoming days. Unfortunately, since yesterday I had some gastrointestinal issues, combined with flu-like symptoms which might be traced back to the broiled oyster sushi that I got from a rather cheap take-out place. My colleague who shared the sushi experiences the same issues, so we might not go back there again. After two flights and checking in the hotel I was prepared to get some barley tea from the convenience store and call it a night. I took an Ibuprofen and headed out... Half the way back to the hotel, the pain killer kicked in. Suddenly I was not feeling like dying anymore (remember: male-type flu symptoms are the worst). There was a McDonalds and while I was queuing to get a Bulgogi Burger I thought "are you really going to have McD in Korea" ? Just next to it, salvation was awaiting me. Chicken & beer joint, at 19.00h almost full - jackpot! Ordered the mixed fried chicken & soy sauce garlic one ... Fantastic: light & crunchy... super flavourful. It came with a beer (chicken & BEER joint) and strangely a bottle of Soju to mix. Did I order that? Can't refuse, Koreans take drinking too seriously... Plus the local advertisements are somehow convincing 🙄 In the way home dropped into a convenience store and bought two bottles of Barley tea and cram cheese ice cream. Let's see if I am going to regret this evening tomorrow, but for now I am a happy camper 😁

Sorry, I thought that would be implied by "dry curing" (German: "pökeln" = curing with nitrate/nitrite-containing salt). I used "NPS", German pink salt with a nitrite concentration of ~ 1.5% ...

Beef brisket, dry-cured with mustard seeds, coriander and jerk seasoning for 5 days. Rinsed, watered for 30 min, dried for 2 h in the fridge. Then brushed with liquid smoke and covered with freshly toasted and ground black pepper & coriander. SV at 167.5 oF for 24h. Cooled, sliced and portioned. And for me a Pastrami sandwich, as featured in the Dinner thread.

And while you are at it, @Shelby, please have a stopover at Hong Kong and drop by 😋

Sandwich with more homemade Pastrami than my blood pressure does actually allow, with dijonnaise, pickled cucumber and onions...

Upon request by my guests (who refused German cuisine for some reason ): kind of Levantine/Mediterranean dinner party. Most recipes taken from Ottolenghi's "Jerusalem", or at least inspired by it. Grilled & marinated eggplants & courgettes Potato salad with aubergine, lemon and artichokes Roasted pumpkin with tahini & za'atar Baba Ghanoush with yoghurt Hummus Ovendried cherry tomatoes & olives Pide in all variations (lamb, egg, grilled veggies ...) Köfte Pastrami There was also grilled chicken, but I was too busy dishing out Pides before they were gone. All three batches ... Progress picture Not pictured: Copious amounts of Asahi, off-dry Riesling and Old Fashioned, followed by shots of Jägermeister (the holy trinity of Levantine booze)... A successful evening, if I might say so

Pickled cucumbers (picture taken with an antique iPad) ...

The perfect follow-up to a fun night out: "Bavarian Breakfast" - Weisswürstchen, Brezn, Weissbier ... Works pretty well

This should actually be placed in the not yet existing thread "Things I eat long after dinner and some drinks" ... "Dan Dan Bucatini" with bits of minced meat, sichuan pickles, sichuan pepper and oil. Topped with SV pork belly and my "ma la" rub comprised of more Sichuan pepper, chili and a little cumin. Some cilantro was added right after the picure. G&T to counteract the spiciness...

Cured a pork belly for the last 3 days. Turned half of it today into Kümmelbauch with a healthy dose of caraway seeds, roasted on a bed of onions. Lunch was fresh Kümmelbauchbrötchen, with onion marmalade and pickled cucumbers. And the crackling, of course ... 😀

So I have to stop swallowing my tooth paste ??

Pizza night at Casa Duvel: (Fennel) Salami & olives Anchovies, capers and olives (The last of my Sardinian) Salami & olives

Bucatini "carbonara" with candied guanciale and salmon ...

Sake night with some otsumami at a small place in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong. I honestly wouldn't find that place again, in the 6th floor of a nondescript residential building. Food was good, sake was great ... Nanbanzuke, mentaiko, Saba, wakame & yuzu salad, pickled ika, grilled beef tongue, kamo soba.

Ok, if its just the solid chunk you might be better off ... I usually but freshly shaved, so I was referring to that product. Good luck

I doesn't really. But it looses its flavor significantly. I would toss it and get a fresh batch; making dashi is too much effort to start with lousy raw materials and end up with an mediocre result (IMHO) ...

Cleaning out the fridge / leftover dinner: "Vietnamese" chicken wings, Takoyaki from lunch (this time for the rest of the family) and cold rice noodle salad (which I dare not call Vietnamese) with orphanaged items from the freezer ... Everything was eaten, so could not have been that bad 😋

Lunch for one: Takoyaki (minus the octopus, which I couldn't find in the freezer, so technically Ebiyaki with shrimp), with sauce, mayo and fresh Katsuoboshi from my last Tokyo trip. I am always amazed how good that stuff is when it's fresh. Plus a beer. Or two. And possibly a nap 😉

I am ever so impressed that you dish out one Japanese inspired breakfast after the other. Truly admiring (and being a tiny bit envious on) your efforts!

Tonight party after the last Dragonboat race of the season (unthankful 4th place) ... Made rye flour-based Flammkuchen with onions and Guanciale 😊

Wurstsalat and chicken-baked potatoes ... very simple and yummy !

Beer tasting set at Little Creatures brewery in Kennedy Town, HK. My favorite was the IPA. I had some roasted cajun-spiced cauliflower with it as well as Uni carbonara pasta afterwards with another pint of the IPA. Yummy ...