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Korean food and drink

March 2022

  • J Kenji López-Alt’s Sichuan-style cold noodles

    Chinese noodles and Korean shredded potatoes: J Kenji López-Alt’s wok recipes

    Improve your wok smarts with this duo of spicy, Sichuan stir-fried cold noodles and nutty, shredded Korean potatoes

February 2022

  • Japanese soufflé pancakes

    Flipping marvellous! 10 delicious – and surprising – pancake recipes, from jaffa cake to peanut butter and gherkin

    Simple sugar and lemon is lovely, but there’s a world of batter-related fun to be explored. Why not try something new this Shrove Tuesday?

January 2022

  • Macaroni, spam and egg in a bowl

    Pantry remix
    The American canned meat that’s undeniably Asian: four recipes with Spam

    Spam is a shining beacon of culinary innovation through hardship, and represents a complex history across many cultures

November 2021

  • Comedian Bridget Christie photographed in north London, 1 September 2021

    On my radar
    On my radar: Bridget Christie’s cultural highlights

  • Youn Yuh-jung: ‘I like adventure. I’m either very brave or very ignorant.’

    Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung: ‘I’m very strange-looking, in a good way’

October 2021

  • Tim Anderson's Japanese-style baked potatoes with butter and salmon roe.

    Feast
    Tim Anderson’s Japanese potato recipes for Bonfire Night

    See beyond the humble baked spud with recipes for buttered potato with salmon roe and a Korean barbecue-meets-fondue dish involving sweet potato and melted cheese
  • Breakfast with... series. 
Eun Hee An's take on tarak-juk
- congee (rice porridge cooked with milk and dashi, a stock made from kombu and bonito flakes), seasoned with shirodashi or white soy sauce and topped with crabmeat, finely julienned scallion, and ginger; served with baek-kimchi (white kimchi) on the side, seasoned with white pepper

    Breakfast with ...
    Breakfast with Eun Hee An: tarak-juk (king’s congee) with crab

    Simple, elegant and deeply satisfying – the Moon Mart chef’s take on congee shows the traditional Korean food of royals can also be easy to make
  • Felicity Cloake's Korean fried chicken.

    How to cook the perfect ...
    How to make the perfect Korean fried chicken – recipe

    Perfect for sharing, Korean fried chicken differs from other takes on the finger-lickin’ classic in that it often comes bathed in sauce. Cold beer optional

September 2021

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's kalbi butter noodles, with spring onions and sesame seeds.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    Vegetable lasagne, butter noodles and spicy stuffed shells: Yotam Ottolenghi’s pasta recipes

    Conchiglie stuffed with spicy mince and smothered in tomato, roast fennel and courgette lasagne, and buttery ramen in a spicy Korean marinade

August 2021

  • Michelle Zauner with her band, Japanese Breakfast, performing in Las Vegas in 2019.

    Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner review – truth of a modest sceptic

    The Japanese Breakfast frontwoman finds making kimchi is the best way to grieve her tough Korean mother in this droll memoir

July 2021

  • Liam Charles' roasted peach bao buns

    The sweet spot
    Liam Charles’ recipe for roasted peach bao buns

    The dough bun reinvented as a sweet treat filled with pistachio custard and peaches roasted with honey, vanilla and lemon thyme

May 2021

  • Meera Sodha’s tofu and mushroom bulgogi.

    The new vegan
    Meera Sodha's vegan recipe for tofu and mushroom bulgogi

    An updated Korean classic, with chunks of mushroom and firm tofu smothered in a fiery marinade of gochujang, soy and pear

April 2021

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's eggs baked in sticky kimchi rice.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    From baked kimchi rice to custard cream affogato: Yotam Ottolenghi's egg recipes

  • Spicy Seekh kebabs on skewers on a barbecue grill in London

    Tongs at the ready for a spicier barbecue season this summer

January 2021

  • Rob Allison memoir illustration
Observer Food Monthly
OFM

    Korean cooking, my mother and me

  • Chantelle Nicholson’s whole baked onion squash with caramelised onion, thyme and kale stuffing.

    From Korean spiced hotpot to baked squash: Chantelle Nicholson's recipes for winter warmers

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's kimchi pancakes.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    From kimchi pancakes to kohlrabi: Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for ferments

  • Refreshing healthy cocktail of fermented raw kombucha tea with a slice of grapefruit and ices. Kombucha mushroom tea is a natural fermented drink originally from China.

    Fiona Beckett on drinks
    Drink healthy: ferments to kick off the new year

October 2020

  • Untitled, 358 Dalston Kingsland Highroad, Hackney, London, for Jay Rayner’s restaurant review, OM, 01/10/2020 Sophia Evans for The Observer.

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    JAE at Untitled, London: ‘Seriously punchy Korean cooking’ – restaurant review

    Rough-plaster walls, piped music and an irritating name can’t dull the zinginess of the cuisine, says Jay Rayner

July 2020

  • Yori, London.

    Grace Dent on restaurants
    Yori, London WC2: 'Like a boxer refinding their feet' – restaurant review

    The very idea of Yori’s spring onion pancake helped me through at least 80 days of incarceration
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