My first blog over using second language~!

I bet people notice that I am Asian&foreigner when they see my blog. At first, they must know when they see tons of grammar errors, and the topic ‘noodles’ looks exotic.

I got a lot of interesting&useful skills to use social network by process of posting this blog. In South Korea, they has social networks too, but those are only twitter, facebook, and youtube. Also, the function of embedding codes from here to there is not used well as much as the United States, so their social network is usually used to report trivial routines. Of course those reporting is much better than ignorance, but still, Korean social network has a lot of space to be improved.

        I especially love using Storify. I actually met some people who don’t recommend storify, but, to me, who has never experienced making blog, storify is a perfect tool entering into the world of Blog.

I agree it might have less creativity, because Drag&Drop is a skill the most used in Storify. However, I was a beginner of beginner, even could not understand all terms used in social network, so that I felt it might have been much easier when I used storify to make this blog, not wordpress.

Also, I am interested in video editing, so using Youtube manager was very fun. I took video storytelling class by professor David Nolan last semester, and experienced using finalcut express for editing.

Like I took harder time than regular American students to be used to wordpress and blogging in English, I did when I learned finalcut. But right now, Youtube video manager is very easy tool to me. I felt very proud of my self. And I really enjoyed it. I am sure blogging in English is so intimate to me, right now too. Thank you!

In conclusion, I feel like United State’s social network environment is ahead of exactly 5years than Korea. And I would like to be one of people who improve Korean social network~!

Oh~! I’m going back to Korea  on 15th May~!

Korean Festival, and Amazing Korean style Fried noodles!

        There was the first Korean festival in Texas State University in San Marcos on last 27th April. This event had beautiful traditional performances, Korean pop music performances, AND awesome Korean food! Especially what people loved was Korean Style Stir Fried Noodles. 

Jap-chae, 잡채 : Korean Stir Fried Noodles. Japchae is one of the most popular noodle dishes in Korea, particularly a famous main dish for party. The foundation of the dish is the mixture of the noodles, soy sauce, garlic, and sesame oil. Because mung bean or sweet potato noodles both absorb tons of flavor, you can mix and match the vegetables or meat to your liking.

In Korean Festival in TXstate, Korean Culture Club catered Korean food for the festival 🙂

Now, Korean festival has already past, BUT!! There are several restaurants&markets which are cheerfully satisfy your appetite toward Jap Chae~!

1. Cho Sun-Gal bi Restaurant, 조선갈비

This restaurant has reputation of providing fancy style Korean food, also has Jap-Chae.

713 E Huntland Dr
Austin, TX 78752

(512) 419-1400

http://www.chosungalbiaustin.com

http://www.yelp.com/biz/chosun-galbi-korean-bbq-and-grill-austin-3

2.Manna Korean Restaurant, 만나식당

This restaurant is cheaper than upper one, but honestly, much less fit their food for American.

6808 N Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78752
Neighborhood: Brentwood

(512) 323-0635

http://www.yelp.com/biz/manna-korean-restaurant-austin

Homemade Tomato Sauce

I made a Youtube video about recipe of traditional Italian tomato pasta sauce. Homemade tomato sauce has rich aroma of tomatoes, basil, and olive oil. Making tomato sauce needs less than 30 minutes, and very easy. Honestly, I know boiled tomato feels a little bit~~ gross when you touch peels of it, But!! I bet it’s worth! Check this out >,<

Hand Pulled Noodles: King of the king noodles~!

So, as I was making noodles the other day I decided I would make my storify over hand pulled noodles- which has many locations, one in particular that shows how hand pulled noodles are made.

This restaurant is in New York City and supposedly offers some of the best hand pulled noodles around.

I made a storify for it, but unfortunately it would not post on my blog.

So for everyone who wants to see my post, check it out here!

Check out my diverse noodles that I made! XD

At first, the last picture, the chinese noodles is not what I made.

These photos are all what I made(except for the last one), and making these photo slide show I could recall the moments when I made them for my priceless friends.

1.Yakisoba

Yakisoba.
This is japanese style fried noodle. I’ve bought organic green onion in Farmer’s market which is held monthly in Quad, TXstate University. Scent of green onion was amazing. Also, basically, I put soy sauce when I made this dish, it was perfect match with green onion.

2.Salad pasta

This is absolutely one of my favorite food. I am not a vegetarian, but I love veggie, especially fresh, crunch veggies!! Also, I used Olive oil&lemon juice dressing on it, which is perfect for salad. I put tofu this, which is made by grounded beans. Salad pasta could be a full meal to make you feel satisfied.

3.Tomato sauce pasta

Home made tomato sauce pasta.
I love to make tomato sauce because it is not difficult to make&good for health. I’ll definately post how to make. The most important element of good food is scent. Home made tomato sauce has texture of fresh tomatoes, and scent of raw tomatoes. I made a bottle of it in my fridge, and just warm it with pasta whenever I want to eat. Everytime I eat this, I remind this is perfect.

4.Original style Chicken noodle soup

This is the picture that I posted the recipe of ancient style noodles. I do want to make&eat again, but honestly, it is hard to revive again…hahahaha I am too busy to do school work!!!

5.Romantic dinner table with home made pasta

This pasta was the first tomato sauce that I’ve tried. Of course it was terrible:P But it was great for romantic dinner:)

6. Farfalle, so called bow-tie pastas with tomato sauce

7. Home made tomato sauce

8. Garlic pasta 9.Happy brit, with garlic pasta lol

garlic with olive oil pasta.
This is the original pasta which Sicilian people invented pastas first.
Based olive oil, roasts fresh garliic until it turns to brownish yellow, and broil with cooked pasta noodles. Put grinded black peppers&salts. It is one of easy pasta to make, but this is really the best Italian food ever. Usually, Sicilian put clamps, but I couldn’t, because hard to find fresh sea food in Texas:P If someone knows, let me know plz~~!

Noodles in movies: Love of ordinary people

1. Cracked eggs&noodles (2005, S.Korea directed by Sang Hoon-Oh)

Love between father and son who don’t live in easy circumstances. Ramen noodle shows the symbol of love of family even though they are not rich.

2. In the mood for love(2000, Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai)

In this movie, a square selling noodle soup in night market is a place for the poor public. At this place, the main characters ran into and fell in love, even though they were just neighbors living  next door.The woman character ‘Su’ went there to buy noodles for eating alone in her apt, and the guy ‘Chow’ living next door went to eat noodles. Noodle in this movie, represents loneliness of people living modern time.

3. Rush Hour(1998, United States directed by Bret Ratner)

Check this out too!

I didn’t watch this movie, but found this scene in Youtube. It is so funny 😛

Brilliant App: Make your own noodle recipe~! :)

I have a brilliant idea of i-Phone application!

It is an app has recipes of making noodle, but these are not regular noodle like ramen, pasta or pho.

You can make your own recipe, like you can choose toppings when you order pizza in Domino.

First of all, you can choose which noodle you want, and then app shows you which sauce would be great with this noodle.

But you can choose one of the list of sauce. And finally you can choose other ingredients to put your noodle.

Finally, you can see the recipe of your noodle~!

 

Making the first chicken noodle soup in history.

  The far west part in China, Khotan district, there is an endless barren desert. In the middle of the desert, a dormant volcano made huge mountain. In 1991, food was excavated which is seemed like thick noodle made by wheat flour. This is the first noodle of mankind. The noodle which made by people living in the crossroad between western and eastern civilization was introduced to China, and culture of noodle raised remarkable there.
How ancient people made noodle? The book ‘Jae-Min-Yo-Sul’ the oldest document written a thousand and four hundred years ago, has record of making noodle. In this book, people made noodle by hand, not using any equipment. They sieved wheat flour, mixed the flour and chicken soup, made the dough into round shape by hand, drew it both ways to be in shape like a chopstick. Cut this 13inches long, and put it into water for 3-4minutes. After this process, they made this to be flat by hand on the boiling water. It is called ‘Soo-In-Byung’, means ‘Noodle made by hand’.

  I decided reproducing this ancient noodle again. I found a recipe of this noodle in website of a documentary ‘Noodle road’. In this fast food age, making chicken soup for an hour, making dough for 5 hours, it needs a lot of patience in mind.

Ingredients: 4-5 Green onions. All purpose flour. An Onion. 2-3 Chicken drum sticks.

First of all, we should make chicken stock.

Remove skin of chicken, yellow fat near bone.

Put chicken sticks in cold water for half an hour until oil coming out from chickens.

 

Put half of onion with chicken sticks in pot, pour water and boil it for an hour.

 

During boiling, Oil from chicken keeps coming out and floating on the water, so take out oil with a ladle.

During stock boiling, we should prepare noodle.

Pour 2-3cups of flour in a bowl, and add a quarter cup of chicken stock in the bowl.

Make stiff dough with hand. Put it in a zip lock and leave it the normal temperature in kitchen.

After an hour later, knead the dough again, leave it at least 4hours or a day.

I am not impatient as much as waiting food for a day, so I pull the dough out from the zip lock after 4hours.

It looks more neat, and stiff.

Put some oil on your hands, and make dough longer.

Take small piece from the dough, and make it 15inches long stick shape. And put those in cold water.

Boil chicken stock again. Above steam from the boiling pot, press each noodle flat and drop it in the pot.

While boiling, detach flesh of chickens from the bone.

Put some thin shaped onions and chiken flesh in the pot. Boil it till noodle floating on surface of waterAt last, put chopped green onions.

And some salt, black pepper powder as much as you like.If you have minced garlic, It would be better.

  After taking about 5hours to make noodle, I was exhausted. However, it tasted amazing. People are normally used to MSG. Even I am, but its soup was warm, and awesome enough to release stress that I’ve got during cooking.

Instant Ramen, 컵라면, ラーメン( らーめん) #2

Not common in U.S., but in Korea there are hundreds, thousands way to upgrade your Instant Ramen. From the easier way like putting an egg when you boil the ramen, to making chips for it. I’d like to introduce several ways which are so easy but making your ramen taste far much better!

1. Put an Egg when you boil Ramen. If you only have cup noodle, put an egg before pouring hot water.

2. Put a slice of cheese right after you finish boiling Ramen.

3. Roast beef and thin pieces of onion. And pour water on it, and boil Ramen.

4. Prepare a pan, and oil the frying pan. Fry a Ramen noodle for 5minutes, until its color is changed to be a light brown. Put a little bit sugar on the noodle during you are frying it. Pull the noodle out and fritter it to be pieces which is good for a bite.

  

Noodle Road.

Nowadays, you can see noodles everywhere. But when you see countries which has diverese kind of noodles, you can notice they has long history of their nations also. Noodle is the food has long tradition as much as people love this. Especially, people in U.S. doesn’t make noodle in their home, they love to eat at the restaurant. Like this, Noodle is a string connecting people to people around the whole world.

면 음식이 발달한 나라의 역사를 보면, 그것이 길고 깊었다는 것을 알 수 있다. 면은 다른 어떤 음식보다도 그 잔류가 오래되고 이를 사랑하는 사람들이 많다. 특히 집에서 면 음식을 잘 만들어 먹지 않는 미국사람들도 많은 식당에서 면 음식을 즐기는 모습을 보면 놀랍다. 면 전통이 없는데도 다른 많은 나라의 면 음식이 사랑을 받는다는 것이 신기하게 여겨 졌다.  이처럼, 면 음식은 전 세계 사람들을 그 가늘고 부드러운 가닥으로 묶는 소중한 세계화의 끈이다.

  The first departure of noodle in history was Sin-Jang district in China. After people could stored up provisions, not just for survival, noodle appeared. Noodle came across to Central China first, South, and then Korea, Japan.

역사 속 국수의 첫 시발점은 중국이었다. 사람들이 생존을 위해 음식을 먹던 시대가 지나고 음식을 가공하면서, 국수는 처음 역사에 등장했다. 중국에서 시작된 국수는 몽골 등 북쪽 지역으로 가장 처음 퍼졌다가, 남쪽으로 그리고 한국, 일본으로 퍼졌다.

                                                     Soo-In-Byung

     First noodle was similar with American chicken noodle soup, so-called ‘Soo-In-Byung’. It was discovered in 1991. This noodle was comparatively large, as big as the size of a finger. The ancient people made the dough with wheat and millet. They chafed this by hands, made noodle and ate this with hot chicken soup. That’s why they called this food ‘Soo-In-Byung’, which means noodles like human fingers.

첫 국수는 ‘수인병’이라는 이름의 치킨수프였다. 내가 포스팅했던 아티클의 사진이 바로 그것이다. 면은 조금 넓고 납작하며 손가락 굵기이다. 그들은 조와 밀을 섞어 만든 반죽을 손으로 비벼 거친 면을 만들었다. 이 면을 뜨거운 닭고기 국물과 함께 먹는 식이었다. 고대중국인들은 이 국수를 ‘Human Finger noodle’ 이라는 뜻의 ‘Soo-In-Byung’이라고 이름지었다.

The first noodle made by the old nomadic tribe in China was transmitted to Persia(now Iran) by Silk Road-  Silk Road refers to a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro -Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa. The land routes were supplemented by sea routes which extended from the Red Sea to East Africa, India, China, and Southeast Asia. It was fast, easy and simple to make every kinds of food made with noodle. And noodle is easily coming along with other ingredients regardless of what are those. For these reasons, spreading of noodle was so fast.

이렇게 만들어진 면은 실크로드를 따라 페르시아, 지금의 이란으로 퍼졌다. 면 음식은 다른 어떤 재료와도 쉽게 어울리고, 조리과정이 간단하기 때문에 실크로드의 무역도시들을 오가는 바쁜 상인들에게 인기가 많았다.

How about pasta which is the most popular noodle in Europe? Before 19th century, pasta was the food only enjoyed by people in western Italy. Above all, Sicily Island was the first place developing the pasta. Even nowadays, pasta is a main dish to Sicilian, one Sicilian usually eats more than 40kg of pasta a year.

그렇다면 현대의 서방에 널리 퍼진 파스타는 어떻게 시작된 것일까? 이탈리아에서 시작된 파스타는 19세기 전까지만 해도 이탈리아의 서부 사람들만이 즐기던 음식이었다. 그 중에서도 시칠리아에서 파스타가 시작되었는데, 시칠리아 사람들은 지금도 한 해에 40키로그램이 넘는 파스타를 먹는다고 한다.

The process of making pasta left on the wall of the Palatine Chapel in the capital city of Sicilia, Palermo.  Those are all written in Arabic, and most of people in wall painting are wearing turbans. According to scholars, the period of pasta developed is seemed to be the same time of when Sicilia was conquerred by Persia.

시칠리아의 한 성당에는 파스타를 만드는 과정이 자세히 묘사된 벽판화가 있다. 그 벽판화의 파스타를 만드는 과정은 모두 아랍어로 적혀있고, 면을 만드는 사람들 중에는 더러 터번을 두른 이슬람 사람들이 있다. 학자들은, 시칠리아에 면이 전파된 시기가 페르시아에 시칠리아가 정복되었던 시기와 맞물리는 것으로 보아 이슬람의 파스타가 전해진 것이라고 추정하고 있다. 이로써, 중국의 사막 한 가운데 유목민이 먹던 음식이 전 세계의 무역로를 통해 발전했다는 것을 알 수 있다.

http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/1tv/sisa/insightasia/noodleroad/