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The garlic chives are split into white stems and green leaves and go in separately. Shrimp cook in oil already scented with sliced garlic, the stems join with the soy and oyster sauce, and the leaves go in last and are done within a minute.
After 12 to 15 minutes in the steamer the wrappers go translucent, showing the filling of pork, tofu, glass noodles, and garlic chives. The dip is soy sauce with vinegar and chili flakes. Fold a big batch and freeze some, and a few can go straight from the freezer into the steamer later.
Honey and soy sauce cook down into a dark, glossy glaze on this duck breast, while the cold-pan start renders enough fat from under the skin that no oil is added. The portion of marinade for the final brushing is set aside before any raw duck touches it.
The mussels are added with a spoonful of rice wine and boiled uncovered for five minutes, letting the fishy steam escape while the taste of the sea stays in the broth. Any still closed by then are taken out and thrown away.
Well-aged sour kimchi, garlic chives and thinly sliced cheongyang chili go into a batter that also takes 40 ml of kimchi brine, which turns it red before it ever reaches the pan.
Squid bodies are packed with a filling of glass noodles, ground pork and the chopped tentacles, steamed, then left to cool a little before being cut into thick rounds. Each slice shows a white ring of squid around a dense mosaic of noodles, chives and carrot.
Korean zucchini holds so much water that it keeps weeping after it is seasoned, and a pool of liquid gathers at the bottom of the container within a day. This kimchi is therefore made to be eaten fresh, within two days, rather than left to ferment. Salting stops at 15 minutes for the same reason: any longer and the slices give up too much moisture and turn soft instead of crisp. Plum syrup stands in for sugar, and garlic chives add a green, grassy note against the chili.
No broth at all: hot, thick noodles are tossed with chili-oil pork, chives, scallion, fish powder, and a raw yolk until everything coats the strands. The noodles skip the cold rinse so they reach the bowl hot and the yolk loosens into a sauce. The pork must be cooked down until no thin liquid remains in the pan; otherwise water pools at the bottom and the mix turns uneven. Spreading the toppings in a ring instead of one pile keeps the flavor from bunching up when everything is mixed. Fish powder and nori bring the savory depth a soup would normally supply.
Searing smoked duck briefly renders the surface fat, and what richness remains gets cut by the nose-tingling heat of mustard and a splash of vinegar. Korean chives, cabbage, and bell pepper give it crunch and a garlicky green aroma, while honey and sesame oil round off the soy dressing. Toss the duck with the vegetables while it is still warm, when the meat feels most tender.
This Okinawan dish is made from sweet potato starch, and while it is as chewy as a rice cake, it is neither steamed nor baked but stirred nonstop in a frying pan. The thin batter forms translucent clumps and finally gathers into a single glossy mass. Fresh from the pan it is very hot; it is torn into bite-size pieces and left to cool briefly before eating.
Kimchi goes in at nearly the same weight as the pork, so the first thing you taste is its sourness. Short-cut garlic chives and pressed tofu fill out the mix, seasoned with soy sauce, garlic, and sesame oil.
Marsh clams from the Seomjin River area around Hadong are tiny, so the pleasure lies in the broth: pale and clear, yet surprisingly full-tasting. Garlic chives go in just before the heat is cut, wilting only enough to stay green and fragrant. When lifting the clams out of their soaking water, scoop from the top so the sand at the bottom stays behind.
There is more shrimp than chives here, 200 g of it, and it is chopped coarsely with a knife so every bite still has some snap. Two eggs in the batter hold all that shrimp together when the pancake is flipped.
Duck releases a steady stream of fat as it steams, so skimming the surface every 10 minutes during the 30-minute cook leaves a clean sauce rather than a greasy one. Garlic chives are laid on top only at the end and wilt just enough to stay pungent, cutting through the richness of the meat.
The cucumbers are stored whole, split lengthwise into quarters with the red chive filling poking out, and only cut into bite-size pieces at the table. Bite into one and the cucumber juice and the seasoning come out together.
Daegu's flat mandu hold less than a spoonful of filling each, so wrapper and filling press into one thin sheet. With only glass noodles, garlic chives, and cabbage inside, they taste light until dipped in soy sauce sharpened with vinegar and chili flakes.
Fat from pork small intestine melts into a soy-and-mirin chicken broth and turns it cloudy and rich in this hot pot from Hakata, Fukuoka. Cabbage torn into big pieces soaks up that broth and goes soft and sweet. Once the solids are gone, noodles or rice are added to the remaining broth.
Plenty of finely chopped garlic chives go into the ground beef, so these bite-sized jeon come out flecked with green. Tofu squeezed dry makes them softer than meat alone, and the soy sauce and sesame oil seasoning still tastes clear once they have cooled.
There is no meat in the filling, only king oyster mushroom, tofu and garlic chives. Both the mushroom and the tofu hold a lot of water, so the minced mushroom is dry-fried in a pan without oil first and the tofu is wrung out hard in a cloth.
The clam meat is drained well before it goes into the batter, yet as the pancake cooks it still releases salty juice that carries a clam flavor through every part. It is made as one large round about 20 cm across and cut into six to eight pieces.
The shrimp is chopped coarsely, not ground, so you bite into firm pieces of it in the soft pork filling. Steamed, the wrappers turn translucent and show the pink shrimp through; pan-fried, only the bottoms go golden and crisp. Chopped cheongyang chili in vinegar soy sauce makes a spicy dip.
Fresh oysters, at their best in winter, get a very light dusting of flour and a dip in egg before frying, with chopped garlic chives added at the end. Large ones can still be underdone in the middle after the outside turns golden, and the heat goes down while they stay in the pan a little longer.
Without any meat, the filling leans on firm tofu, cabbage, garlic chives, and short-cut Korean sweet potato glass noodles, which give each bite an even, springy chew while the chives stand in for green onion. Pan-frying sets a thin golden crust on the bottom while the top of the wrapper stays soft.
Okinawans are said to have made hirayachi on typhoon days, when going out was hard, from flour, egg and garlic chives already in the house. The batter can be loosened with either dashi or plain water. Its name refers to cooking something flat, and the batter is poured in quarters into an 18 cm pan and spread thin.