hello hi everyone! Wesley here. Today we’re adding to our series on foods from TV and film with a korean gimbap, inspired by the film Minari. For those not familiar, a Korean Gimbap (or Kimbap, as it is occasionally pronounced here in the states) is a rice roll wrapped in dry nori seaweed, with a number of veggies and proteins folded in.

While it more or less will look (to the unsuspecting eye) like a japanese sushi roll, a korean gimbap is actually quite different, because of what it typically contains. While a sushi roll is most typically made with some form of raw fish, a gimbap can contain a wide variety of cooked ingredients. For today’s version, I’ll be going with a classic combination of carrot, eggs, spinach, and my two personal favorite ingredients, some pickled daikon radish, as well as some bulgogi steak, borrowing from our bibimbap recipe a few weeks back. Hope you try it.

It will be out on Friday June 18th, 2021, so bookmark the recipe here, and be sure to subscribe and hit the bell on YouTube to get notified when it’s out!

Woo Can Cook is a series where we reproduce fun foods and recipes from my childhood. Some of them are authentically Chinese and/or pan-Asian, but a lot of them are odd Americanized versions that I inherited from my parents and grandparents while growing up in the Bay Area/California.

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