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[queencarmie]

I have been back in Canada for months now, back to eating chicken wings and pizza sans corn. MMMM... however, I miss korean food! My small town in canada has barely even heard of Korea, much less has a Korean resturant. Any ideas where to find good korean recipes? Specifically gamga tang [potato soup with pork in it] (crappy romanization, my appologies), salang tang and the bean paste that you eat with galbi (cant remember the name)
Any help will be appreciated, Ill even send you some home grown canadian food (aka cheese whiz or KD)
Thanks!!

[Sliver]

Check this thread

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=42196&highlight=recipes

[bucheon bum]

I think getting some key ingredients might be rather difficult to obtain where you are.

[Grotto]

If you are near Edmonton the Asian supermarket in WEM has an excellent assortment of all the ingredients you need..

Recipes are available online just do a quick google for them.

[peony]

maybe you can find out if this site delivers?

http://www.kgrocer.com

[SweetBear]

Peony, you are the Biz when it comes to finding useful websites !

sb

[peony]

thanks

[skookum]

Here's this: http://www.recipezaar.com/r/125
and this: http://www.geocities.com/ypmljulia/index.htm

followed by these:

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgiq=korea

http://www.koreankitchen.com/

http://www.koreainfogate.com/taste/food/recipemain.asp

http://www.sweetbabymedia.com/recipes/korean.shtml

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/cgi-bin/menu.cfm

http://www.yorizori.com/trans/recipes_main.html

Also there are some Yahoo Groups elists for Korean cooking. Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/korean_cooking/
If you can't find a recipe elsewhere you can always ask here.

Good luck.

[kangnam mafioso]

my town in america is also lacking a good korean restaurant, but there is a small korean grocery and some asian shops. check around for any asian grocery stores. you should at least be able to get samjang, gochujang, kimchee, ramyon, etc.

seollang tang and kamja tang are both pretty time-consuming recipes that require you to boil beef or pork bones for hours on end. for the seolleng tang i believe they use beef shank bones and for kamja they use pork back/spinal bones. the rest of the ingredients are pretty simple and can be found online ... onions, potatoes, noodles, chili paste, etc. good luck. i, too, miss a good bowl of seoulleng tang in the morning.

[white_shadow]

Kamja tang, and haejang kook are very similar. I like haejang kook better, its a much cleaner taste. Sometimes adding something more makes it worse. Anyways, they are made with the same method. Based on Kimchee Chigae.

All you need is some fatty pork and some pork with bones. Try using Pork Shoulder (sometimes called pork butt) Stay away from the tenderlion, most ajummas boil the snot out of everything, so by tenderlions will end up dry and tough. Add kimchee (just a little or just some of the juice), tangjang (miso), ground red pepper, garlic, green onions. Boil the snot out of it. I love to add soy bean sprouts, but I'm addicted to them.

For kamja tang, add some potatoes, enoki, and everything else in your fridge.

This is a quick and dirty version. If you want to get all Paul Bocuse, then you would need to create a stock and enrichen it with protein (meat), thus creating a pork broth. I find that a quick pork stock (30 min or less) tastes much better one simmered for hours. I think most people would agree with me on this, since you don't ever see a Pork Demi Glace.

If you need a middle of the road solution, try using white beef stock. You can find this in powdered form in Korean stores. I use it to take place of many stocks. Unlike it's american counterpart, it very suitable for replacement chicken and fish stocks. You need to dilute it somewhat though. Add some pork meat and bones to a diluted white beef stock, simmer for 15 minutes or so. Then add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for another 10 minutes or so and you should be set.

[peony]

if you live in the US and cant find a Korean grocer near you, you can order online from here (its the biggest Korean supermarket chain in the US)

http://www.superhmall.com/product/grocery_sub1.asp?top_cate=13&mid_cate=123

[Flossie]

There is also a Korean recipe website: www.delicook.com The only disadvantage is that its in Korean (oh, and you need one of those mysterious resident numbers too ) But if you can get someone to log in for you (and you can read Korean ) it's great. Has all kinds of recipes, not just traditional Korean. You should see some of the 'western' food concoctions they come up with