Jeon- Korean style pan cake

Hello, I hope you have spent a nice new year season with your family and friends.

We had a cold weekend in Eastern Asia because of the high pressure system from Siberia. It was minus 17.8 degrees C in Seoul for the first time in 10 years and even in Busan was minus 12 degrees C!

It seems that natural disasters show up all over the world more often than before. As soon as Europe finished the horrible cold-wave disaster, the flood has come in Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka. Everything happened just in a month!

All we can do now is always think about how to reduce the impact of our life-style on the earth's eco- system, otherwise I am afraid that the future could be more unexpected in a negative way...

Ingredients:

egg (1)

flour (1/2cup)

potato starch (1/4cup)

water or chicken soup (1/2cup±)

salt

sesame oil

soy sauce

vinegar

sesame

kimchi

green leek

*you can add another vegetables as well.

1- Mix the egg, flour, potato starch, half a tea spoon of salt and water together.

2- Cut the kimchi finely and green leek into 3cm pieces.

3- Put 2 into 1 and stir well.

4- Place some of 3 thinly on a heated pan with sesame oil and flip it over when one side is cooked.

5- Make the sauce with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame and sesame oil.

6- When 4 is cooked, please cut it into small pieces and eat it with the sauce.

Itadakimasu.

Kimchi chicken

Yesterday I had a walk in Nakameguro (map) which is now very popular for young-stylish people. Recently there are more and more galleries, cafes, restaurants and urban fashion shops have been growing in this area.

Our purpose was to see sakura along the river, but we didn't expect that thousands of people had the same idea!! It was just so crowded and we couldn't even walk straight...

There were many little shops selling drinks and snacks on the streets and the open cafes were full of people who were enjoying a glass of wine. Of course, the sakura was amazingly beautiful...and that is why so many people were there.

Today's cooking is the kimchi chicken. Kimchi is a Korean invention but you can find many types of kimchi in Japan as well.

Ingredients:

chicken breast

kimchi

lettuce

ginger

sake

1- Put some salt and sake on the chicken breast, make some holes with a fork and place it in microwave (or boil) until it's cooked.

2- Cool 1 down and tear it with hands roughly.

3- Fry the finely cut ginger, kimchi and 2. Add the lettuce just before finishing.

Kimchi has many kinds of tastes in it so you don't need to add more spices. This dish goes with rice and a gentle tasting soup well.

Itadakimasu.