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Maangchi: YouTube’s Korean Julia Child
New York Times ^ | JUNE 2, 2015 | Julia Moskinjune

Posted on 06/04/2015 7:56:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

During the years that she was addicted to online gaming, life for Emily Kim began when she got home from work at 6 p.m.

“I would shower quick, and eat something, no matter what, so I could start playing my game,” said Ms. Kim, a.k.a the YouTube Korean-cooking star Maangchi. “And I wouldn’t stop till 3 a.m.”

In 2003, divorced and with her two grown children out of the house, Ms. Kim ventured into the online role-playing battle game City of Heroes and couldn’t pull herself away.

Maangchi, pronounced MAHNG-chee and meaning “hammer” in Korean, was the name of her online avatar, who specialized in destruction, wielding a huge scimitar and wearing a tiny miniskirt.

Finally, she said, in 2007, her children persuaded her to try a more nourishing form of Internet expression: cooking videos. “I had no idea if anyone would watch me,” she said, “but the Korean recipes I saw in English were full of mistakes, and I wanted to show the real way we do things.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: korean; minskirt; scimitar

1 posted on 06/04/2015 7:56:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

hide the dogs.


2 posted on 06/04/2015 8:01:18 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

Hide your wife, hide your kids...


3 posted on 06/04/2015 8:04:37 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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To: nickcarraway; Tamar1973; Army Air Corps; gaijin; GeronL; lefty-lie-spy; BCW; hawaiianninja; ...

Ping?


4 posted on 06/04/2015 8:04:45 PM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: nickcarraway

Bibimbop!

mmm mmm mmmm


5 posted on 06/04/2015 8:07:09 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

And hide your husband too ...


6 posted on 06/04/2015 8:15:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: nickcarraway

She is excellent, except I think she has too many fussy steps.

I was on Jamestown’s cooking thread this evening and wrote about canned sardines. Here is a good recipe of hers that uses canned mackerel. It is not company great, but if you already have Korean ingredients in your cupboard and in your fridge, and canned mackerel in your preps, this is easy ( and not fussy) and good.

Basically, this is a kim chew stew with potatoes and mackerel. Apparently, her friend goes camping with kim chee.

http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kimchi-camping-stew


7 posted on 06/04/2015 8:46:43 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: nickcarraway

Some Koreans make a living being paid to eat online.


8 posted on 06/04/2015 9:17:32 PM PDT by GeronL (free short story: http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/free-short-story-proper-care-feeding-of.html)
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To: GeronL

Korean food is so photogenic. I watch Korean dramas and they food in them makes me salivate.

Here’s a drama for newbies to start with that has just a hint of food, however, it is very involving story, well paced, terrific OST (original sound track) and very expressive actors.

There is some violence, no sex, a suggestive plot, but mostly great cinema. It is told in 20 episodes.
Write me back, to tell me what you think.

http://www.viki.com/tv/10519c-that-winter-the-wind-blows


9 posted on 06/04/2015 9:25:20 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: dp0622; left that other site; KC_Lion

I was stationed in Korea twice and eat their cuisine every chance I get.

10 posted on 06/04/2015 10:21:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Twice, wow. I found one Korean restaurant on Staten Island listed. The gal and I will go try it out.


11 posted on 06/04/2015 10:29:21 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: lulu16

bump


12 posted on 06/04/2015 10:52:13 PM PDT by GeronL (free short story: http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/05/free-short-story-proper-care-feeding-of.html)
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To: nickcarraway

VERY cute, but she’d look better with traditional, straight hair, IMO.

Oh, the food looks tasty, too....


13 posted on 06/04/2015 11:51:09 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: nickcarraway

I watch her videos on Roku. I also like Honeysuckle Catering’s, and Seon k Younglongest’s Korean cooking videos on Roku. Two Crazy Koreans is fun, too.


14 posted on 06/04/2015 11:54:35 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alittle ditty I wrote in praise of Korean Cuisine:

Bibimbop (c 2003 LTOS)

I was visiting Korea
When i stopped to eat, in Seoul
I was served some pickled vegetables
arranged neatly in a bowl
Like the moon over a rice field
An egg was sitting up on top
Some meat, some rice, some hot sauce
They call it Bibimbop

Don’t leave the Barbequed meat on the side
Take it and the rice along for the ride
Don’t leave the chili sauce sittin’ on top
Mix it down into your Bibimbop

Bop Bop, Bibimbop
Bop, Bop, Bibimbop
Don’t leave the chili sauce sittin’ on top
Mix it down into your Bibimbop.

If you pick at it with chopsticks
You’ll be sitting here till noon
So mix it all together
And eat it with a spoon!
Once you get a taste of it,
you’ll never want to stop
Don’t mess with tradition
When you eat your Bibimbop!

Don’t leave the Barbequed meat on the side
Take it and the rice along for the ride
Don’t leave the chili sauce sittin’ on top
Mix it down into your Bibimbop

Bop Bop, Bibimbop
Bop, Bop, Bibimbop
Don’t leave the chili sauce sittin’ on top
Mix it down into your Bibimbop.


15 posted on 06/05/2015 5:35:26 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“...’cause they cooking everybody!”


16 posted on 06/05/2015 11:02:17 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love that they serve their food in heat retaining bowls and plates. But I do feel sorry for whoever has to wash the dishes, because there are many little side dishes to wash.

I traditionally have my birthday dinner in a Korean restaurant. I like to be able to cook the meat in the individual table-side grills.

I think Korea has changed tremendously, because it is growing more prosperous by the day. Even in older Korean dramas, the amenities and signs of wealth so more impressive now.


17 posted on 06/05/2015 11:46:29 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16

I dig eating kim chee, just not the aftermath of eating kim chee.

FReegards


18 posted on 06/05/2015 11:51:54 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: lulu16

In most ways they’re richer than we are. One example: Their high-speed Internet penetration rate is practically 100%. I probably wouldn’t recognize the place.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 11:55:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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