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Food Safari ventures into the beautifully healthy world of Korean food, full of colour and surprises. Martial arts champion and top Adelaide chef Chung Jae Lee of Mapo restaurant reveals the basic ingredients needed for his cuisine amongst the Korean grocery stores and the fruit and vegetable stalls of Adelaide's vibrant Central Market.
He cooks up a simple delicious bulgogi - a beloved marinated beef dish eaten rolled up in lettuce leaves. Chris Kang explains Korean people's devotion to the fermented vegetable kimchi and explains how his grandmother has been making it since she arrived in Australia. Suzannah Kim who cooks every day in her restaurant in Sydney's Little Korea in Campsie whips up a traditional favourite easy enough to make at home - a rice, vegetable and beef dish called bibimbap.
Maeve visits her friend Joo Kim who has been making tofu for many years and joins the elegant Yuni Choi for some lessons in how to eat Korean food at a traditional BBQ restaurant and not look silly. We finish at a rice cake factory and see how stone-ground rice is steamed with a variety of fillings including nuts, beans and herbs to make the soft low fat cakes that are prized for festivals and special occasions.
Featured Businesses
Bakehouse Garden Korean BBQ
Shop 4
9-11 George St
North Strathfield NSW 2137
(02) 8746 0299
Doorae Restaurant
Ground Floor
209 Clarence St
Sydney NSW 2000
(02) 9290 1004
Jang Won Korean restaurant
Shop 1 13 Anglo Rd
Campsie NSW 2194
(02) 9718 0010
Kim Tofu
64 South St
Rydalmere NSW 2116
(02) 9638 1807
Koreana Mart
Shop 4 & 5 Market Plaza
61-63 Grote St
Adelaide SA 5000
Mapo Restaurant
113 Gouger St
Adelaide SA 5000
(08) 8211 6042
Pal-Do Kim-Chi
398 Canterbury Rd
Canterbury NSW 2193
Seoul Meat Market
5/124 Rowe St
Eastwood NSW
(02) 9874 5882
Sydney Madang Restaurant
371A Pitt St
Sydney NSW 2000
(02) 9264 7011
Featured Food & Recipes
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- Turkish sausage and baked eggs (sucuklu yumurta)
- Green olive salad (yesil zeytin salatasi)
- Stuffed eggplant (patlican dolmasi)
- Lamb dumplings with yoghurt and sumac (manti)
- Fried mussels with tarator (midye tava)
- Cherry Bread Pudding (visneli ekmek tatlisi)
- Tapioca pudding with cassava and banana (che chuoi chung)
- Black Angus beef with lucky sauce (bo luc lac)
- Vietnamese dressing (nuoc cham)
Hot Tips
Studding lamb with garlic and rosemary
Stud lamb rack with rosemary, garlic and anchovies by making small incisions with your knife all over the lamb. Slide slivers of garlic, a piece of anchovy and a few rosemary leaves into each incision then roast as normal.
Glossary
Kumera (Sweet Potato)
The name comes from the Polynesian word describing orange sweet potato.
