… oh dear, has a whole generation grown up now thinking real life is just another dating app
There are 3 different videos, two in the post you linked, and your receipe covers the second video there, the first one is with kimchi.
In the video shown here, he uses
- 3/2 tbl. spoons soy sauce
- “a little bit of” fish sauce
- sugar
- MSG
- “a lot of” sesame oil
- green onions
- a clove of garlic (grated) or two cloves (sliced)
- roasted sesame seeds
It’s probably just fine without the MSG and the garlic.
And big ones, too, it looks quite amazing:
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I was staying near Grindavík during the first of the current Reykjanes eruptions and in the darkness of the night we could see a fierce orange glow over the mountain, so we piled in the car hoping to see Mother Nature’s fury…
…it turned out to be a greenhouse growing an experimental crop of barley.
Bonus. The volcano had stopped erupting pretty much the minute our plane had touched down that afternoon.
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Decades? I’ve seen this dish “discovered” like five or six times in at least a couple places in the decades I’ve been alive, but also paradoxically grew up making this because like everyone in my family also just kind of did this with cucumbers in addition to pickling. I think this is just like ancestral food wisdom for any humans who can get their hands on a fresh cucumber that reasserts itself when the opportunity arises with gusto.
Dunno though… Maybe cucumbers have powerful memory-inhibiting enzymes that somehow make them new again each spring in the host species?
They’re also crunchy and delicious.
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Looks like he’s using the cucumber slices as a convenient matrix to hold the various sauces as they are carried to his mouth. Same as little kids do with fries and ketchup
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Oof. That’s a bummer.
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Yeah - I can add killing off volcanoes to my public persona as an Icelandic rain god. When I turn up even the local complain about how wet it is.
Sorry for anyone here who was planning on visiting Iceland in early November - pack a coat and wellies - but see you there!
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Turgid
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I prefer the version with miso, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and black sesame seeds
The story made it to Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me! this past weekend.
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Having lived there, no, cucumbers and tomatoes are the only vegetables always in abundance in supermarkets, due to being locally grown
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Strikes me that cucumber finger could be this season’s avocado hand.
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