Fräulein Kimchi kocht!

Street Food Thursdays!

fräuleinkimchi — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:04:11 +0000

Street Food has finally hit the newly emerging food scene of Berlin and my tastebuds couldn’t be happier!

You can find Fräulein Kimchi my korean tacos and kimchi fried rice along with other delectable goodies from other fantastic vendors every Thursday at the Markthalle 9.

I’m a terrible blogger

fräuleinkimchi — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:04 +0000

It’s clear. I’m not very good at keeping up to date with my webpage, but I am writing a lot of very interesting contribution in my head. Needless to say, this past year has been huge for the Fräulein with a lot of good things cooking up, from my new stand at the Markthalle 9 for Street Food Thursdays and a kimchi ordering service and… stay tuned for more!

fräuleinkimchi — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:23:08 +0000

Hallo Lieben-

I’m cooking up a business lunch on Friday, Sept 28 as part of the KitchenSurfing Chef fair. Tickets can be purchased by clicking on this link – Kitchensurfing Chef Fair.

Plus there are a lot of other great culinary events happening in Berlin with fantastic chefs! Hope to see you there.

Korea & Mexico make for a hot night!

fräuleinkimchi — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:00:10 +0000

The time has come for Berlin to taste the awesome delights of Korean taco night. July 21-22 at Chaparro in Kreuzberg! Wienerstr. 14a.

March 21- Fräulein Kimchi’s next Fusion Cooking Class

fräuleinkimchi — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:42:26 +0000

Howdy Berliners- My next cooking class at Goldhahn and Sampson will be March 21. Featuring Fräulein Kimchi’s (soon to be famous Korean tacos- Berlin style. Fusion cooking is my favorite way to teach and eat, and I’ve lived in some amazing foodies cities that have influenced my palate in delicious ways.

March 21, 2012, 19h-til the last taco is eaten, Goldhahn & Sampson- Dunckerstraße 9, Berlin

Go to this link to sign up directly from Goldhahn & Sampson:

http://www.goldhahnundsampson.de/shop/Cooking-Classes/Mar-y-Seoul-%3E%3E-Wednesday-March-21-2012-at-19-h::1799.html

http://www.GoldhahnundSamspon.de

and sign up for my Facebook Page to get invited to all Fräulein Kimchi Kocht events.

my new logo!

fräuleinkimchi — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:35:11 +0000

this was created for me by one talented lady…Lily Lin – http://www.itwasaloveaffair.com. Living in Berlin can be so great! Such a great mixed up pot of creative individuals.

Oct 21: next class at Goldhahn & Sampson

fräuleinkimchi — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:28:57 +0000

So you’ve eaten some kimchi, and you even liked it. You’re one step away from being a true honorary Korean. Now you need to learn how to make your own delicious kimchi and few other goodies too. I’ll be teaching my next class on October 21 at Goldhahn & Sampson.

On the menu: Bulgogi- thinly sliced beef with a sweet soy marinade, Fräulein Kimchi’s spicy chicken wings, Dukgook-rice cake soup, Hobak Chon- zucchini pancakes with a sesame, scallion dipping sauce, a variety of teas and banchans to sample and of course home-made KIMCHI! Bring an empty jar or two to take home your expertly made kimchi.

To book the class please go directly to Goldhan & Sampson’s website.

and to make the fräulein really happy, please come wearing your dirndl and lederhosen!

link for the class:
http://www.goldhahnundsampson.de/shop/Cooking-Classes/Korean-Cuisine-%3E%3E-Thursday-October-20-2011-at-19-h::1706.html

blogging is hard work!

fräuleinkimchi — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:24:47 +0000

i’m embarrassed to note that my last blog entry was last year. in the meantime, i have started to write half a dozen entries that have never made it to press because my perfectionistic qualities have gotten in the way. but thanks to ira glass’ words of wisdom, (i’ve been crushing hard on him ever since seeing him live in santa monica for a “this american life” show years ago) - i will no longer stall! perfection away…

kochen in kopenhagen

fräuleinkimchi — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:15:14 +0000

return of the vikings?

I just spent a long weekend in Copenhagen and decided to take the opportunity to try out social experiment number 2.

Random cooking of Korean deliciousness in a stranger’s apartment.

I was going to Copenhagen to partake in a friend’s wedding festivities, and since Copenhagen is notoriously expensive, decided to couchsurf. For those unfamiliar with couchsurfing, it’s an amazing way to keep traveling affordable, as well as a great way to meet interesting new people. Anyone willing to let a stranger stay with them is crazy in a way I can relate to! (www.couchsurfing.com)

I threw out a few feelers for surfable couches and was…rejected! What can I say, sometimes even a fräulein gets turned down, but soon enough, I was “accepted” by a few friendly couches and had a secured place to stay in a very nice apartment in the Vestebro (*side note- let me just say Danish people have good taste!)

So normally, as a thank you gesture for the kind souls who take me into their homes, I’ve been known to cook a meal or two…this time I decided to take it a step further. I invited myself into the home of a random couchsurfer who had to “reject” my request due to coinciding travel dates. He seemed genuinely bummed to miss out on a chance for Korean essen, as evident by his email:

“I have a recurrent dream: I’m in a big city, and all of a sudden I remember this wonderful neighbourhood where they have Korean food and I will go looking for it. I have dreamt that at least 10 times.”

so I decided, what the hell…I was staying an extra night in Copenhagen, have chili, will travel. The poor boy was clearly going through kimchi withdrawal, so I offered to come over and show him some basics of Korean food. I brought along my very hospitable couchsurfing host and momentarily invaded the home of a Danish filmmaker and his Norwegian girlfriend with my dried seaweed, kochugaru, sesame seeds and dried anchovies. The kitchen was “cosy” so it turned out to be a little too small for a real teaching session, but I put my new Danish friends to work chopping onions and peeling garlic. An hour later we sat down to dinner. Guten appetit!

fishheads, fishheads, eat 'em up, yum!

On the Menu was:

Bulgogi with shitake mushrooms

Miyook-guk – a seaweed soup

Oi-moochim- spicy cucumber salad

Seaweed salad

Myulchibokkeum- dried anchovies (usually my American friends recoil in horror at these tiny fried bits of strange crunchy fishy sweetness, but a country that eats pickled herring apparently also liked dried fishiness ; )

Saenggang Cha- ginger cinnamon tea with pine nuts

It ended up being a great evening with good food and camaraderie. I introduced the leckericiousness of Korean food to 3 kimchi virgins and was reminded of why it is the fräulein loves the kitchen. The nicest compliment I think I’ve ever been given about my cooking was when at the end of the evening I was told- “you are making the world a better place.”….did I mention again that I like the Danish?

the table is set

and of course my trip wouldn’t have been complete without trying the smørrebrød. My friend Idil took me to a cool cafe where they served up some slamming versions of smørrebrød…tee hee, somehow that word just really makes me giggle. I went for the typisch Dansk- potato version of their daily smørrebrød. delish.

kartoffelnsmørrebrød- don't even think about it if you're on a low carb diet!

kimchi für das Volk!

fräuleinkimchi — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:16:41 +0000

So last Sunday, I decided to don my dirndl in search of a social experiment.

Just how far can a Fräulein go with a winning smile and bowl of fresh kimchi?

Apparently pretty far. Being a Sunday in Germany, I couldn’t pop over to a shop in search of daikon-rettich or chinakohl, but I did have a freshly purchased, 100% organic kohlrabi. What the heck, kohl is kohl, and this Fräulein is all about the fusion. So I chopped and mixed my way to a bowl of instant kimchi and fed the masses.

The recipe for my deutsche Kohlrabi-Kimchi was simple:

Peel and slice a kohlrabi into thin slices and then quarter. In a bowl mix together 1-2 TBS Korean Chili Powder (now you should know how I feel about bad chili powder…for heaven’s sake whatever you do don’t buy a Korean chili powder that’s been made in China! And yes…it is worth it to shell out for the more expensive stuff. Look for the label that’s the Korean equivalent for “organic” co-op farming), 2-3 TBS rice vinegar, a dash of fish and soy sauce, 1-2 tsp sugar. Mix together madly, add a few toasted sesame seeds and minced green onion, and voila…instant “kimchi.” (this isn’t the kind that ferments so eat up while its fresh)

My friend Max joined me on this venture to document the experiment, and here are some of the results. If anyone wants to be my photo/videographer to hit up yet another one of Berlin’s finest Flohmarkts…drop me an email.

kimchi on the run

you'll like it, promise

sehr scharf!

schmeckt das?

ja!

the lovely stand where i bought my kohlrabi

you know you want it!

the amused bystander

she looked skeptical but she liked it anyway

now everybody wants the kimchi

"that would taste good with beer!"

open wiiiiiiiide!

and....finished.