Wandom Wednesday: The BEST Korean Fried Chicken Recipe
Wednesday, 07 October 2015 00:00
Wandom Wednesday: The BEST Korean Fried Chicken Recipe
Musicians have a special relationship with food: we love to eat! And quite often, many musicians are also excellent cooks. In today's "Wandom Wednesday", I reveal my secret for the best Korean fried chicken recipe EVAH!
Maangchi.com is my favorite website for Korean recipes, and her fried chicken recipe is easy and incredibly delicious. "Maangchi", by the way, means "hammer" in Korean - I have no idea what hammers have to do with cooking, I'm sure there's a story about that somewhere...
Anywho, here's the recipe video from Maangchi - I hope you give this a try, and be sure to let me know how it turns out for you! I've made this several times, and it always comes out crunchy-sweet-spicy delicious! Just be careful not to burn the chicken in the oil...
Whenever you go to Korea, there are a couple of things you really need to try. You need to try the Korean barbecue. Or for me, I need to have Korean barbecue of some sort. I need to have some Korean fried chicken. Fried chicken is amazing here. They call it 양념 통닭 (“yangnyum tong tak” = '“seasoned chicken”) in some places, but any kind of fried chicken you get in Korea is the best in the world, I think. And another favorite that I haven't heard a lot of people talk about are the strawberries.
Korean strawberries are unbelievable. They are like eating candy. I remember one time walking through an open air market a number of years ago. A guy drove up in a motorcycle with a big container. He opened it up and showed us these strawberries. And they looked gorgeous!! So, on a whim, I just went ahead and bought some. Right then and there, I put one of the strawberries in my mouth - and I could not believe how sweet it tasted!! It's literally like eating candy. There is absolutely no bitterness, no sourness. It is like eating pure sugar, it's unbelievable! It's so delicious. Love these strawberries!!