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New here? This is the eighth 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 most useful background for this one is Episode 5 , the first time this family ate inside a Korean home, and Episode 7 , the first time Bob ate Korean food with nobody to hide behind. 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 Modeum-jeon (모듬전) · the assorted holiday plate CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) WHEAT EGG SOY PORK BEEF ALCOHOL Flour and beaten egg are the method itself, so wheat and egg are structural rather than optional. The soy arrives twice over, from soy sauce in the seasoning and from the block of tofu worked into the meat mix. Pork and beef are both in the standard patty, not one or the other : the commo...

New here? This is the seventh 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 oi-muchim , the cucumber that gets salted before anyone seasons it. Today's dish is the one you have almost certainly eaten without being able to say what it was made of. WHAT'S IN IT Eomuk (어묵) · Korean Fish Cake CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) FISH WHEAT SOY ALCOHOL fish paste is more than half the product and wheat flour roughly a third, so the wheat is structural. Every Korean label checked lists soy, from soybean oil and soy protein as well as the sauce. The alcohol is not in the packet: mirin or rice wine goes into the pan, in most published recipes for both the side dish and the soup. CHECK THE KITCHEN SHELLFISH SQUID EGG DAIRY BEEF PORK ...

New here? This is a Menu Deep Dive: one Korean main dish per article. If a Korean menu still reads as a wall of words, start with the menu decoder , and if you want the story of one family learning all of this from nothing, start at Part 1 and Part 2 . Last time we explained jajangmyeon , the bowl of black noodles that arrives already assembled. This one arrives in pieces. This article assumes you have already met the wrap itself. It was taught once on a backyard deck in Ohio and used again at a tabletop grill in Koreatown . Nothing below teaches it a third time. -BAP 밥  Ssambap is a bap: a rice meal, with the thing that happens to the rice named in front of it. Read the whole decoder . ALLERGEN PANEL Ssambap (쌈밥) CONTAINS (AS TYPICALLY SERVED) SOY SESAME every sauce on the table is built on fermented soybean paste, and the wrapping sauce is normally finished with sesame oil and seeds CHECK THE KITCHEN WHEAT FISH ...