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New here? This is the ninth article in the Survival Guide, our running story about one Ohio family learning Korean food from a standing start. You can begin at Part 1 . The one directly before this is Episode 8 , in which the holiday was three weeks away and Bob volunteered for a job he had not seen yet, and the other useful background is Episode 5 , the first time this family ate inside a Korean home. Notice to Readers: This article continues the fictional Miller family scenario from earlier installments of the Survival Guide. Practical context follows in callouts. WHAT'S IN IT Galbi-jjim (갈비찜) · the braise at the middle of the table CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) BEEF SOY WHEAT Beef is the dish, and the cut is short rib on the bone. The wheat arrives through the soy sauce rather than through any flour , which is the part that catches people out: a braise with nothing bread-like in it is still not a wheat-free plate. Cooking wine was no...

New here? This is the tenth article in our Banchan Deep Dive series: one Korean side dish per article. If Korean restaurants are new to you, start with Part 1 and Part 2 of the Survival Guide, then the rules for eating banchan . Last time we covered gyeran-jjim , the steamed egg that arrives in its own pot, too hot to pick up. Today's dish is the other end of that table. WHAT'S IN IT Kkakdugi (깍두기) · Korean Radish Kimchi CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) FISH SHELLFISH salted shrimp is not an optional extra here. It is in the oldest written method, chopped through the seasoning, and commercial labels list shrimp sauce and anchovy sauce together. Both dissolve. Nothing on a red cube shows you either one. No beef goes into this dish, worth saying given where it lands on the table. CHECK THE KITCHEN SESAME Four careful versions of this dish have been written down and they disagree. One published formulation puts sesame seed in. The...

New here? This is the ninth article in our Banchan Deep Dive series: one Korean side dish per article. If Korean restaurants are new to you, start with Part 1 and Part 2 of the Survival Guide, then the rules for eating banchan . Last time we covered beoseot-muchim , the mushroom side dish English has no name for, which ended by asking whether something arriving in its own bowl is still a side dish. This article is that bowl. WHAT'S IN IT Gyeran-jjim (계란찜) · Korean Steamed Egg CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) EGG SESAME SHELLFISH FISH egg is the dish itself, in every version. Sesame arrives at the end as toasted seed, sesame oil or both. The shellfish is saeu-jeot, tiny salted shrimp, the default seasoning, and it dissolves in invisibly. Fish gets in four ways: anchovy stock, fish sauce, salted pollock roe, and dashi powder sold as seafood flavor. A salt and water version has neither in it, and nothing on the surface tells you which one you got. ...