I'M MAD HUNGRY

Spam and Shrimp Soondubu

I’m so addicted to soondubu, I tried making it at home. I looked up the recipe on  Maangchi, and it seemed quite simple. The stock is flavoured with dreid kelp, anchovies, garlic, shiitake mushrooms, fish sauce, and red pepper flakes. 

Alirang Korean Restaurant

354 Main Street West, Hamilton

The first soup is called Gamjatang, pork bone soup. Easily my favourite Korean soup. This soup was different though, good different. I’ve never had pork bone soup with such an intense and strong pork bone taste. It had a fantastic balance of spice and meat flavour. YUM.

The second soup is Seafood Soondubu, which is a spicy soft tofu soup. All the seafood made it sweet and delicious. The stock was definitely strong and flavourful.

All you need for the stock is dried kelp, dried anchovies, garlic, and dried shitake mushrooms. To add spice, you just need the hot pepper flakes. Add whatever you like to bulk it up. The main ones are seafood, beef, curry, and chicken.

Noodle Soup

Just a simple noodle soup with 1000 year old eggs and chunks of fish fillet.

Spicy Pork Bone Soup or Gamjatang

The first time I tried Korean food, I got this soup. The amount of flavour in this soup is incredible. It’s spicy with a hint of sweetness from the nappa cabbage, and the pork bones give it such a nice deep flavour. It definitely makes my taste buds happy! This was my first time making this soup after years of ordering it from the local restaurants. It was a successssssss YUMMM.

I followed this recipe from Maangchi.com… this blog is dope. It has TONS of korean recipes, and some of them have videos too. 

Pho

My mom brought me pho from Pho Dau Bo on Upper James. I got the rare beef and tendon pho.

Dim Sum

Little pork and fish balls in fish skin soup.

More Udon

Made the same instant udon, but beefed it up with some veggies and shredded chicken.

I photographed this on a railing on the second floor. I was terrified that it was going to fall and shatter everywhere. 

Just Some Instant Udon

Soupy, salty, and spicy. Yum.

Lemongrass Restaurant

633 Silver Star Blvd, Toronto

Beef Brisket and Tendon Vermicelli. This restaurant has their own recipe for the broths they use in the noodle bowls. The broth is super rich and flavourful. Gotta try this!

More Noodles

Instant Udon noodles with beef stir fry and chinese greens. A hot bowl of noodles keeps me warn during the winter.