Crunchy balloon bread (Gonggal-ppang: 공갈빵)

I'm so excited to introduce today's recipe to you! It's gonggal-ppang, a cookie-like bread that's puffed up like a crunchy, crusty, hollow balloon, with a coating of melted sweet syrup inside. This balloon bread was created by Chinese immigrants in Korea. I was told that the bread was originally...

Egg bread (Gyeran-ppang: 계란빵)

Let me introduce you to a popular Korean street snack gyeran-ppang (계란빵) or "egg bread" today. This is a sweet, steamy, hot and fluffy little loaf of bread with a whole egg inside. It's sold by street vendors all over Korea. Until recently, I had never had gyeran-ppang before. Many of my readers...

Korean salad bread (Salad-ppang: 샐러드빵)

Salad-ppang are fluffy bread rolls filled with Korean potato salad. They are quick to make and totally satisfying - the perfect pick-me-up when you're craving a tasty snack.

Injeolmi rice cake

Injeolmi is rice cake made with sweet rice (glutinous rice). It's one of the most popular and common Korean rice cakes and it's made on special occasions and Festival days.

Korean sausage bread (Sausage ppang: 소세지빵)

Today's recipe is for Korean sausage-ppang, or sausage bread, which is a hotdog or sausage baked in fresh bread and covered with toppings and cheese. It tastes like sweet pizza with fluffy dough. I don't know who invented this snack but it's very popular and a common item in Korean bakeries in...

Korean street toast (Gilgeori-toast: 길거리토스트)

I hope all of you are safe and stay healthy during these pandemic times. I'm doing well so far and I never go out except for grocery shopping. As long as I have a big bag of rice, a large quantity of fermented kimchi, potatoes, onion, garlic, dried beans, and Korean essential ingredients like...

Mugwort rice cake (Ssuk-beomul)

Put some ssukbeomul into your mouth, chew it slowly, feel the flavor and feel the spring!

Steamed pork buns (Jjinppang-mandu)

“We used to make a large quantity at once, enough to eat for the whole winter. We kept hundreds of steamed pork buns in earthenware pots in the yard. The weather was so cold that the buns were frozen the whole winter, until we finished them. They were hard as stones the whole time. We ate them...

Soybean sprout soup with rice (Kongnamul-gukbap: 콩나물국밥)

Today's recipe is a popular 1 bowl meal well-loved by all Koreans. It's delicious, savory soybean sprout soup with rice mixed right in. It's fast, warm, hearty and satisfying. This style of soup is called gukbap in Korean - literally soup (guk 국) and rice (bap 밥), and this recipe with soybean...

Easy bulgogi (Mak-bulgogi: 막불고기)

BBQ Season has come! How about making Korean easy bulgogi? You can simply pan-fry the marinated beef on the BBQ and it's done in minutes. Just a few ingredients but full, delicious traditional Korean flavor!