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Last night I welcomed the Year of the Rabbit at Purple Yam in Ditmas Park with a special Chinese New Year dinner by chef Kian Lam Kho, a/k/a Red Cook. It was quite the feast. We started out with Cold Appetizers including Jellyfish Salad and Spicy Lotus Root. The main dishes included this delicious Steamed Carp with Sour Plum Sauce and Baby Napa Cabbage with Conpoy (dried scallop) Sauce. Dessert was a fresh Lychee Sorbet with tasty tapioca and red bean Chinese New Year Cakes. They sent us each off with a citrus fruit for good luck, because apparently the word for “tangerine” in Chinese sounds a lot like the word for “prosperity.”
Posted on January 28, 2011 with 1 note ()
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Last night I was having an after-work Hudson Buck (or two) at the Vanderbilt, paging through the new Brooklyn Bread Press (basically The Noise meets Patrick McMullan of the BK food nerd world,) and I came across not one, but two photos of yours truly (see page 28) from a recent Kimchee & Korean Pancakes class I took at Purple Yam in Ditmas Park. I kept meaning to share what I learned, waiting until I got around to kimchifying a couple of cabbages chez moi. I haven’t gotten there quite yet, but here you have pics from the fun Saturday afternoon we spent making cabbage kimchi, radish kimchi, brothy kimchi, kimchee stew and tasty pork belly and Korean pancakes to eat with it.
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