If your a fan of K-Dramas, or shows like No Reservations you will have had some experience seeing the food I am talking about.
There are a few things that popped the light bulb on over my head. Meat is almost always thinly sliced while being packaged in small amounts. The ratio of meat to vegetable is almost 1 to 4 (unlike Americanized versions of the food). Meals are often a variety of items and not one dish. Flavor is king, the flavors of the food are diverse but filling to eat even when in smaller portions. If you know me well you know my disdain for veggies, God made the animals to eat them so we could eat the animals.
Who would have guessed that when you don't boil the crap out of them and turn them into green puddings of putrid odors they taste good. (I reserve the right to continue to call Brussels Sprouts the evil satanic balls of death).
The plain repetition of the same basic vegetable items in everyday cooking has bored my taste buds for too many years. The corn starch gloopy sauces we find on American Chinese foods do not compare to the flavor punch of the basic sauces and seasoning of the real deal.
Today was Beef w/Green beans
-4 slices of thin beef
-Long green beans, about a handful
-about 1.5Tbsp light soy sauce, a pinch of cane sugar, small shallot, ginger.
-cup or so of cooked rice
Sauté on high heat for just a couple minutes and done, now drool and eat.
Oven Roasted Chicken w/pesto
-about 4oz of chicken sliced about 1/4 in to 1/2 in thick
-wheat sub roll cut to 4 inches long
-1 teaspoon of pesto
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