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  • (chop chop chop)

  • (peppy music)

  • - Hi, everybody!

  • Today's recipe is

  • too easy!

  • Very interesting Korean side dish.

  • Probably, you never tasted this before.

  • But, once you taste this, you will be addicted.

  • I'm going to make Ojingeo-silchae-bokkeum:

  • Crunchy squid threads.

  • Are you interested in it, already?

  • I'm going to show you.

  • (peppy music)

  • It's a box, or sometimes in the plastic bag

  • they sell.

  • Where? At a Korean grocery store.

  • This guy makes my house a little smelly,

  • but I love that, because I know

  • the outcome is so tasty.

  • This is dried squid.

  • Actually, this is cuttlefish,

  • but we call this Ojingeo.

  • Ojingeo is squid, and then is shredded really thinly.

  • The reason I make this video is,

  • first: delicious.

  • Second:

  • Recently one of my Korean friends living in Canada,

  • she and her husband were visiting me, and then,

  • one of the side dishes I made, was Ojingeo-silchae-bokkeum.

  • And she and her Canadian husband loved this.

  • She asked me, "how can you make this?

  • Do you already post the recipe?"

  • " no, not yet."

  • "This is too easy.

  • I can give you this, just now, recipe how to do."

  • And she said, "no, no, no, please post it on your website."

  • If you love squid, or some a little fishy smell,

  • you will love that.

  • Whenever I make this, or I taste the dish

  • at a Korean restaurant,

  • it brings back really good memories.

  • Probably you guys also have a similar experience.

  • Certain dishes in your cuisine, when you taste the dish,

  • or just by looking at it, oh!

  • That reminds you of your mom, or some people,

  • or some incident, whatever, happening in your past

  • probably you think about.

  • This dish is that kind of a dish for me.

  • Later, I will tell you about this.

  • But first, let's start.

  • I need my cutting board.

  • These threads: Ojingeo-silchae.

  • You can eat it as it is.

  • (chewing)

  • By itself, just chew this.

  • Delicious and chewy, sweet,

  • very squiddy.

  • Especially when you drink beer, this is a good side dish.

  • (crackling)

  • This is half a pound.

  • It's too long, so I'm going to cut.

  • (snip snip)

  • And then, seperate.

  • Like this.

  • Because these guys really stick together.

  • This is a really great side dish for Korean lunch box.

  • I used to make all the time.

  • And now, even, I make this,

  • I keep keep eating.

  • So tasty!

  • Look at this, beautiful!

  • Isn't it?

  • And then I need to add some garlic.

  • Garlic flavor really goes well together.

  • So I never skip garlic when I make this

  • Ojingeo-silcae-bokkeum.

  • So, two large garlic cloves.

  • (bang)

  • (chop chop chop)

  • (scrape)

  • (water running)

  • We are going to cook over medium.

  • Between medium and medium-low heat.

  • If this is too hot, easily it's going to be burnt.

  • This is vegetable oil.

  • Garlic and sugar,

  • and soy sauce,

  • and also sesame seeds later.

  • That's all!

  • I feel a little heat; let's add cooking oil.

  • For this half a pound, around two tablespoons.

  • Then, let's add the garlic.

  • (sizzle)

  • (scrape)

  • So, a little fragrant.

  • And then, add this.

  • (sizzle)

  • And then what we need is these two guys.

  • My wooden spoon and tongs.

  • Using this, just mix and stir.

  • also, all this coat with oil.

  • Keep stirring.

  • Over medium or medium-low heat;

  • never never go up high heat.

  • Very pretty.

  • Now we gonna use some soy sauce.

  • I'll use soy sauce one tablespoon.

  • (sizzle)

  • And two tablespoons brown sugar or white sugar.

  • Two tablespoons.

  • (bang bang)

  • Then, mixing until sugar is melted.

  • This way, you are mixing and cooking.

  • At the same time.

  • This is like squid noodles.

  • Crunchy noodles.

  • (scrape scrape)

  • (banging)

  • Turn off.

  • Done!

  • Only sesame seeds we need to add.

  • Sesame seeds, let's add one tablespoon.

  • (banging)

  • Let's taste!

  • Mmmm.

  • (chewing)

  • The more I chew, the tastier it is.

  • Mmm.

  • Sweet. Sweet and crunchy.

  • Chewy, lots of squid flavor.

  • Really tasty, and a little salty,

  • and it's a good side dish for rice.

  • And also good side dish for your beer,

  • or any drinking.

  • You can keep in the refrigerator up to one month.

  • I told you the story I wanna share.

  • When I was young,

  • this is such a high, expensive side dish

  • when I was young.

  • When I was in fifth grade,

  • in elementary school in Korea,

  • we used to go to some kind of field trips.

  • We went to nice places,

  • some historical sites,

  • with teachers and all the fifth graders.

  • By bus we used to travel.

  • Two nights three days, usually,

  • or sometimes three nights four days.

  • I just still remember, we were sleeping in a large room.

  • There was no bed, just a Korean kind of a mat.

  • Mattress like. We call this "yo",

  • and " ibul" ; blanket, we slept.

  • Boys and girls are seperated.

  • Girls are sleeping in a room.

  • The room is, I remember, so many,

  • like more than 20, 30 students were sleeping in the same room.

  • It's like sardines.

  • (laughing)

  • When you sleep--

  • Because probably, they like to save money,

  • you know, hotel money.

  • So of course we were interested in food.

  • Especially fifth grader.

  • They eat a lot.

  • Especially me.

  • Ever since I was young, I was always interested in food.

  • Hotel provided us three meals,

  • breakfast, lunch, dinner.

  • Side dishes were always the same.

  • Kind of a set menu.

  • They carry the table with the side dishes on top of the table.

  • Dozens of side dishes.

  • Of course, rice is coming.

  • Rice and soup, kimchi, fish.

  • All kinds of side dishes.

  • Most popular side dish is this.

  • We all children loved this side dish for some reason.

  • Once we sat at the table, everybody was just eating

  • with the chopsticks.

  • Eating, and gone.

  • And then, some of my friends were saying, "oh, wait a minute.

  • We want more. We want more. How can we eat more?"

  • So, someone's idea:

  • "Okay, let's just scream."

  • And then we just decided and agreed all together.

  • We just used a spoon.

  • With all the spoons,

  • "Ojingeo deo-juseyo! Ojingeo deo-juseyo!"

  • Itt means, "please give me more squid!

  • Please give me more squid!

  • Please give me more squid!"

  • And then, 'tong, tong, tong' sound.

  • (laughing)

  • Everybody, the small children,

  • were just screaming.

  • That scene, only I remember.

  • I don't remember if they brought extra or not,

  • so long time ago it happened.

  • All I remember is that we loved this side dish a lot.

  • When you make this for your family, your family member says,

  • "Ojingeo deo-juseyo!"

  • Today, we made Ojingeo-silchae-bokkeum:

  • Crunchy squid threads side dish.

  • Enjoy my recipe.

  • See you next time!

  • Bye!

(chop chop chop)

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