Kanpunggi

There is a new restaurant booklet hanging at our door so I checked it and found kanpunggi. Kanpunggi is chicken fried with flour and seasoned with spicy sauce. I used to order kanpunggi but a few months ago, I tried to call the restaurant several times and it seems like the restaurant has been closed. After seeing the Kanpunggi, I told my hubby to try it so we ordered a small size of it and we weren't disappointed for trying it. It's much more delicious than the kanpunggi restaurant where we used to order. Now I understand why my students recommended me to eat kanpunggi which I've never heard before. I knew the menu from them but I was upset when I first tried it. I think it's the reason why the kanpunggi where I used to order was bankrupted. You know what I mean?

Anyway, this kanpunggi is really delicious. Just the way I like it. It's sweet, spicy and crunchy. Now I prefer to order kanpunggi than chicken because of this.

Doesn't it look yummy? It's also healthy because it has lots of bell peppers and onions so I sometimes eat it with the vegetables. The salad is also delicious. Btw, salad in Korea is an appetizer and not dessert. If you go to the restaurant salad is always the first one to be served. So Koreans eat salad first before rice and the main dish.

Myeongpum Chicken

When I first came in Jeju Island, I laughed at the chicken shop named Myeongpum Chicken which means Find Article Chicken, Brand Chicken or chicken with a name. I thought it was so funny because I know lots of famous chicken restaurants like BHC, Nene Chicken, Mexicana Chicken, Pelicana Chicken, Gyocheon Chicken, BBQ Chicken, etc. (too many to mention) but this myeongpum chicken is new to me. Besides its name is Brand name so I wondered if it's really delicious as the ones that I've mentioned above. Anyway, my hubby also thought that the name is just a Brand name but it's not a shop with a brand name anyway. So we never tried to order in that restaurant.

But when my brother in law came to visit us, he mentioned about this Myeongpum chicken. He said it's famous in Jeju Island so he wanted to try it. My hubby said there's one near us but we never tried it so we ordered for my brother in law. Wow~ we never thought that it was delicious. We found out that the chicken restaurant is also a franchise brand in Jeju Island.

The chicken is delicious but too bad that it's just a little. It's not enough for three people. It's just good for two unlike other famous chicken restaurants, there's always left over when I eat with my hubby. But when we order myeongpum chicken, the amount is not enough for two of us. Anyway, here's the chicken.



And here are the contact numbers if you happen to visit Jeju and want to try Myeongpum Chicken.

Spiced Boneless Chicken with Rice Cake

We are tired of eating the same chicken menu so we tried this spicy boneless chicken with rice cake from BHC. Our order came on the cup or small basin that it looks little but when you eat, it's just enough for three people. There's always left over when my hubby and I eat so I think it's good for three people.

The best thing for it is, there's no chicken bone so it's comfortable to eat. It's sweet and spicy and the rice cake is yummy, too.



Here's what the chicken look like. It has nuts and almonds that added the tasty taste of the chicken.



The rice cake is usually find under the cup so you can't see here in the picture.



My hubby said that he won't order this menu anymore but then we are always craving for it. I think we ordered this menu 3times a month.

Kubne Chicken

One of my favorite chicken brand is Kubne chicken or Roasted chicken. A chicken restaurant that serve roasted chicken. They don't use oil when they cook chicken so it's not greasy. My favorite menu is the Teriyaki Chicken with leeks or spring onions with sauce. Teriyaki Chicken is 15,000won or $13 and leeks with sauce is 2,000won ($1.8).

I already collected 8 coupons and I think it's better to order more so I can collect 10 coupons and change them for chicken. Anyway, look at this. Doesn't it look yummy?



That's my hubby with his chicken leg.



The spring onions with sauce and two kinds of chicken sauce. The spicy and not the spicy one. Of course the pickled radish always come when you order chicken.



The Paddalk Teriyaki Chicken. Yummy!

Red Cabbage

If I didn't come here in Jeju, I can't know that there are also red cabbages. I was surprised to see red vegetables planted in the farm when I took a walk with my hubby. They look like red big flowers. When I came close to them, I found out that they are cabbages. It is full red even inside.



I told my hubby to have a taste of that vegetable so I cooked chicken legs. I just boiled the chicken legs and put some garlic, onion and salt. When the chicken is soft, I put the cabbage and boiled. Opppss.. The soup is red. The color is strange but it taste good. The red cabbage makes the soup sweet. It taste like potato but it's sweeter. The soup looks strange though. My hubby never tried the soup but he had much cabbage. hehe..

Teri Bake Chicken

When we bought Nanta Pizza, we saw that next to the pizza shop was a chicken shop brand named Gubnechicken. It's one of the famous chicken brand here in Korea so my hubby went inside the shop and asked for a pamphlet. The next time that we went to the supermarket, we dropped by to the shop and tried their new menu, the Teri bake chicken with crispy and fresh onion leaks and sauce.

The chicken costs $15 and if you want the leaks and sauce, you have to pay $2 more. I prefer to have the leaks and sauce. It's delicious. I tried different kinds of chicken menu with different brands and this Teri Bake Chicken is one the most delicious menu that I've ever tasted.

Duck Porridge

There's an interesting site online where you can get discounts to the restaurants when you buy online. Mostly, they give 50% discount. It depends on which restaurants are available on that day. Oh, it's not day, you have to check the internet at 12m.n. because the events starts on midnight. The restaurants changed everyday so you have to check out your favorite restaurants. Or you can just check out and choose the food that you want to eat. It doesn't matter when you want to go to the restaurant. My hubby said it takes about 2 months. So, if you choose the food and pay online, then you can go to the restaurant anytime. When you pay, you can just tell your name at the restaurant because they have the list of the people who ordered online.

It's our second time to use the groupon and we were happy with the restaurants that we've chosen. This one is duck porridge. It's too big for us. It's 3kgs. so even if we didn't have breakfast, we couldn't eat all.



Here's the rice use for porridge. After eating the duck soup, then we can make porridge. But the duck is too big so we couldn't eat the rice. I just had the seeds, chestnuts, beans, etc.



Btw, it's better to make a reservation before you go to the restaurant because some of them have many customers because of the event and you have to wait for a long time.

Yummy Chicken at the campsite

Again, we went camping on our vacation and we had chicken for dinner. We went to Waryong Natural Recreation Forest in Jangsu. It's too complicated to cook when it's dark so chicken is what we've thought. Is there more delicious than chicken? I know samgyopsal is what many campers bring like what we usually did but this time, we decided not to bring samgyopsal. So we decided to drive about 30 minutes from our campsite to downtown and bought this BHC chicken.



We brought it at the camp site and had it in the tent. Isn't more delicious eating chicken inside the tent? Hmmm...yummy!

Broiled Chicken Giblets (Tangnaejangbokkum)

Broiled Chicken Giblets (Tangnaejangbokkum)

Ingredients: 2/3 lb. chicken gizards and livers, 3 dried brown oak mushrooms, 1/4 lb bamboo shoots, 1/3 lb. konyak: jellied potato cake, 2 green bell peppers. 4 cloves garlic, 2 tbsp. salad oil, 2 tbsp. soy sauce, salt, ginger juice, black pepper, MSG., 2 tsp. cornstarch powder, 1/3 cup meat broth, 1 tbsp. rice wine, 1 tomato

Method: 1. Peel off the inner skin from the chicken gizzards and clean them by scrubbing with salt. Slit the outer part of the gizzards. Then cut them with the chicken livers into bite-sized pieces.
2. Scald the gizzards and livers and rinse in cold water.
3. Soften the dried mushrooms in water, remove the stems and slice them thinly. Cut the bamboo shoots into flat pieces.
4. Slice the jellied potato-ckae into 2 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/4" thick pieces. Slit each piece down the center leaving the ends intact and twist one end through the slit.
5. Halve the green bell peppers, remove the seeds and cut them into thick strips.
6. Fry the chicken giblets with the chopped garlic and dinger juie in a heated oiled pan. Then add the dried mushroom, jellied potato-cake and bamboo shoot, fry lightly and season them with the soy sauce, sufar, salt and black pepper.
7. Dissolve the cornstach powder in 1/3 cup broth. Add this starch liquid to the #6 fried ingredients and bring to a boil to thicken.

Baked Whole Chicken (Tongdakkui)

Baked Whole Chicken (Tongdakkui)

Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, 1 tsp. salt, 3/4 oz. butter, 1 round onion, 1/2 carrot, 1/2 cup sweet soy sauce, 1 knob ginger, parsley, 1 tomato, ribbon

Method:
1. Clean the whole chicken and sprinkle it with salt, black pepper and ginger juice.
2. Cut the round onion and carrot into thin strips. Layer half of the vegetables on the bottom of the oven pan, then place the chicken on these vegetables and layer the remaining vegetables on top of the chicken.
3. Bake the chicken for 10 minutes in an oven.
4. Remove the vegetables from the chicken and bake for 10 minutes more. Then baste it with the sweet soy sauce and bake it for 20 minutes more.
5. Wrap the legs of the chicken with foil and tie the ribbon on the neck. Garnish with the tomato and parsley.

Chicken on a camp

My hubby said he doesn't feel like eating samgyopsal when we went on a camp last Sunday. Although samgyopsal is delicious in a camp but he said it's a little bit complicated to cook so he said we had to make it a simple one. We ordered chicken on our way to the recreation forest. The chicken wasn't delicious but eating outside specially in a campsite made everything delicious.

We arrived at the campsite in the afternoon and hubby said he was very hungry so we had lunch first before we set up the tent. It was a great idea that we ordered chicken instead of samgyopsal or else we had to cook first after our long trip.

Deep Fried Chicken Legs (Taktaritwigim)

Deep Fried Chicken Legs (Taktaritwigim)

Ingredients: 6 chicken legs, 1 tbsp. ginger juice, 1/2 tbsp. salt, 1 egg, 1/2 cup cornstarch powder, black pepper, MSG, frying oil, parsley, red radish

Method:
1. Loosen the meat from the bones being careful to leave it attached at the lower end. Score the meat to tenderize and sprinkle it with the ginger juice, black pepper, MSG and salt rubbing the seasonings in.
2. Pour the beaten egg evenly over the meat.
3. Dip the chicken legs into the cornstarch powder and deep-fry them twice in boiling oil.
4. Place the deep-fried chicken legs on a plate and garnish with the parsley and red radish.

Hint: Place the cucumber, carrot, cabbage and boiled egg white cut into thin strips in a bowl and sprinkle the sieved egg yolk on top. Serve the deep-fried chicken legs with these vegetables.

Got free chicken again

I got free chicken again from the coupons that I collected in ordering chickens. I saw the advertisement of this chicken restaurant posted in front of the door and it looks delicious so I told hubby to try it. I like BHC chicken where I also collected 10 coupons and changed into an order of whole chicken and another 10 coupons from BHC. When it comes to fried chicken, I like BHC and for spicy chicken red combo from Gyocheon.

And now we found this very spicy Hessal chicken and we like it very much. When i'm tired from work and don't to cook or prepare dinner, I always order food and the most ordered food is chicken. Ans this hessal chicken became of our favorites since we had a taste of it. And what is good about it? You have to collect only five coupons and change it to whole chicken.
Here are the coupons-


And dyaraann...the free boneless chicken. Hubby already ate some before I realized that I have to post it on my blog. hehehe..This chicken is not too spicy as the one on the picture at the side bar but they are both from Hessal chicken.

Cold Cooked Chicken and Vegetables (Takkogi Naengchae)

Cold Cooked Chicken and Vegetables (Takkogi Naengchae)

Ingredients: 1 lb. chicken, 1/2 lb. jellyfish, 1 carrot, 1 cucumber, 1 pear, 2 eggs, mustard sauce, (7 tbsp. mustard powder, 3 tbsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. salt, 1 tbsp. soy sauce, 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup vinegar), chopped stone mushrooms

Method:
1. Clean the chicken well and baste it with the soy sauce. Deep-fry the chicken in oil and cut the meat into thick strips.
2. Separate the egg yolk and egg white. Fry the yolk into a thin sheet. Mix the egg white with the chopped stone mushrooms and fry in a thin sheet.
3. Cut the egg sheets, carrot and cucumber into flat rectangles.
4. Scald the jellyfish, briefly in warm water (140 degrees F). Then cut it into 2 1/3" long strips and mix it with the sugar and vinegar.
5. Cut one-third of the prepared cucumber pieces into thin strips.
6. Arrange the flat pieces of carrot, cucumber, egg white and egg yolk around the edge of a plate. Pile the sliced chicken in the center and ring it with the jellyfish and cucumber strips.
7. Serve with 1/2 cup of the mustard sauce.

Hint: If you the try the chicken basted with the soy sauce, the color becomes a lovely brown, but if you steam the chicken instead, it tastes specially delicious.

Spring Chicken Stew (Yonggyebokkum)

Spring Chicken Stew (Yonggyebokkum)

Ingredients: 1 1/3 lb. whole spring chicken, 1/3 cup tiny soused, salted shrimp, 5 tbsp. chopped green onion, 1 tbsp. chopped garlic, 1 tbsp. ginger juice, 1 tbsp. sesame oil, 2 tbsp. sesame salt, black pepper, 5 red peppers, 5 green peppers, 1 round onion

Method:
1. Cut the chicken into 1/3" pieces, mix with the salted shrimp and seasoning and let stand.

2. Fry the seasoned chicken lightly in a pan. Pour in enough water to cover the chicken and simmer on low but steady heat.

3. Cut the round onion, red peppers and green pepper into 1/4" square pieces.

4. When the broth is almost evaporated, add the #3 vegetables and stir-fry briefly.

Deep Fried Chicken in Soy Sauce (Taktwigimjorim)

Deep Fried Chicken in Soy Sauce (Taktwigimjorim)

Ingredients: 1 lb. chicken, 1 tbsp. rice wine, 1 tbsp. soy sauce, 1 green onion, 1 knob ginger, 1 cup corn starch powder, 1/2 round onion, 2 Korean green peppers, 1/2 carrot, 2 cloves garlic, 1/3 cup sweet sauce, 2 oz. cabbage, 1/2 cucumber, 4 olive, tomato

Method:

1. Halve the whole chicken. Sprinkle the chicken with the rice wine and soy sauce and top it with the sliced ginger and round onion and steam it in a steamer.

2. Cut the steamed chicken into pieces. Dip them in flour and deep-fry them in oil.

3. Cut the round onion and green peppers into large pieces. Cut the carrot into crescent-shaped pieces and the garlic in flat pieces.

4. Fry the #3 vegetables in an oiled pan. Add the chicken and sweet sauce and simmer until glazed.

5. Place the cabbage, cucumber, and carrot cut into thin strips in a glassware dish and garnish with the olives and tomato. Serve this salad with the chicken.

Hint: To make the sweet sauce: Combine 1 cup nicely aged soy sauce, 1/2 lb grain syrup (like dark corn syrup), 1/2 cup sugar, 2/3 cup water, 1 oz. ginger cut in flat pieces, 1/4 cup rice wine, 1 tbsp. black pepper and MSG in a pan and simmer on low heat until thick.

Baked Whole Chicken (Tongdak kui)

Baked Whole Chicken (Tongdak kui)

Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, 1 tsp. salt, 3/4 oz. butter, 1 round onion, 1/2 carrot, 1/2 cup sweet soy sauce, 1 knob ginger, parsley, 1 tomato, ribbon

Method:

1. Clean the whole chicken and sprinkle it with the salt, black pepper and ginger juice.

2. Cut the round onion and carrot into thin strips. Layer half of the vegetables on the bottom of the oven pan, then place the chicken in these vegetables layer the remaining. vegetables on top of the chicken.

3. Bake the chicken for 10 minutes in an oven.

4. Remove the vegetables from the chicken and bake for 10 minutes more. Then baste it with the sweet soy sauce and bake it for 20 minutes more.

5. Wrap the legs of the chicken with foil and tie the ribbon on the neck. Garnish with the tomato and parsley.

Broiled Chicken Patty (Takkogi Sopsanjok)

Broiled Chicken Patty (Takkogi Sopsanjok)

Ingredients: 1 spring chicken, 4 tbsp. chopped green onion, 2 tbsp. chopped garlic, 1 tbsp. sesame salt, 2 tbsp. sesame oil, 1/2 tsp. salt, 3 tbsp. soy sauce, black pepper, red pepper thread, lettuce, cucumber

Method:
1. Remove the meat from the bones and mince it finely.
2. Add the seasoning sauce to the minced meat and mix well. Shape the mixture into round flat patties.
3. Broil the patties in a hot oiled pan or on a grill, taking care not to burn them. (Or, you may fry them in an oiled pan on medium heat.)

Hint: Mince all the ingredients finely and mix them thoroughly, so that the patties keep a nice shape. This dish is specially good for students lunch boxes.

Spring Chicken Soup (Yonggyebaeksuk) "영계백숙"

I'm back from my vacation and because my blog is about Korean food and i can't post here the food that i've eaten in another country so i've decided to post some Korean recipe, instead. Let me start with this Spring Chicken Soup Recipe.

Spring Chicken Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

1 spring chicken
1/2 cup glutinous rice
10 cloves garlic
6 jujubes
6 chestnuts
1 knob ginger
salt
pepper
MSG

Method:
1. Remove the organs, lower legs, feet and head from the chicken and clean.
2. Stuff the chicken cavity with the glutinous rice and 5 cloves of garlic. Sew the body cavity shut.
3. Put the stuff chicken in a pot and add water enough to simmer. Add the jujubes, peeled chestnuts, ginger and remaining cloves of garlic. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat and simmer for an hour.
4. Add the salt, black pepper and sliced green onion just before eating.

Hint:
1. Stuff the chicken cavity with only a little glutinous rice, leaving room for it to expand as it cooks.
2. For medicial use, take the boiled chicken out of the broth, add ginseng root and simmer the broth again.

genyip chicken

Whenever i'm tired or don't wann cook dinner, we always order chicken. Eventhough we want different food but most restaurants don't deliver around 10p.m. So when hubby dial the phone, i'm sure he's ordering chicken. As you know i've already posted diffrent kinds of chicken that we ordered like this chicken with rice cake, my favorite red combo chicken, and this chickens that i've already collected 10 coupons and changed it to whole chicken. But we've never tried this genyip (sesame leaves) chicken. So, we ordered it.



The green color the you see is the genyip. This chicken last for almost a week before we can eat all. Maybe you know what i mean. This one is not as delicious as others. It's cheap, though.

When you order chicken here, it always comes with this radish pickles.



Btw, this menu also comes with vegetable salad but i couldn't take a picture of it because hubby already touched it. That's because he was already starving so he couldn't wait for me. hehehe...