Denis Kim Biography

Sesame oil - 1 hour. Cut the vegetables. We cut on onions with feathers. Green onions can be cut as you like big - finely or for long pieces. Grind the garlic with a garlic or knife. Kimchi do not need to grind hard - it is enough to cut across, 1.5 cm wide. We cut a hard tofu into rectangular plates. We cut pork into oblong pieces of small thickness. Put the pan on the stove.

Add vegetable oil and spread pork, then black pepper and mix well. Fry the meat for about a minute, without stopping stiring. After the meat is browned, add kimchi. Mix and fry 1 minute. Next, put onions, mix well and fry for another minute. Add 1 tablespoon of paste of Kochudyan, then ml of water. Stir the paste, then let the soup boil. Add sugar, salt, fish sauce, red pepper, chopped garlic, green onions, approximately ml of juice from kimchi and sesame oil.

Mix well and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat. Next, add the tofu and cook for another 5 minutes. What do you think is the growth of the popularity of Korean cuisine? I think this is due to the fact that the Korean culture as a whole is now on the rise and is very popular. If we look around, we will see that a lot of people listen to Korean music, watch Korean films, prefer Korean cars, read Korean comics and, of course, eat Korean food.

What is the very first dish that you have cooked on your own? These were the pasta in Flot, or rather, their semblance. My father taught me to cook, because he was an entrepreneur, and my mother was often at work during the day. Because of this, my sister often left at home alone, and if my father did not have time to cook something, he told me: "You will cook yourself." I remember how he said: “Boil the horns, rinse under cold water, warm up the stew, add to the horns, mix everything and can pour with ketchup and eat everything on top.” Why did he teach me to cook this particular dish?

Because he was an entrepreneur, he had a grocery store, and we had a warehouse with groceries on the veranda, there were constantly boxes with stew and a pack of oxes-they were never missing, and I regularly prepared these same “macarons in Flot”. For me, the perfect team is the team that does not bother you. The fact is that I lead the culinary blog alone: ​​I cook myself, take it myself away, expose the light, mount, and engage in post -production.

It is for this reason that I release the videos infrequently - once a week or once every two weeks. But still I try to observe regularity. It would probably be more convenient if there was an operator who shot me, while I would stand behind the stove, prepared, showed and told what exactly I was doing. I think that with the help of this approach it would be possible to shoot a video per day.

And he could, like other culinary bloggers, release a video per week. I tried to work in this way, and with different people, but I was not satisfied with the result, unfortunately, for this reason, some videos did not come out. This served as the main reason that I will continue to work as I got used to it, and in the future I will come to something more effective.

What, in your opinion, attracts people in Asian cuisine? Asian cuisine - saturated, bright, very original and, like a cherry on the cake, simple. Asian cuisine involves a large amount of fresh products, the use of a large number of vegetables, greens, and there are a lot of memorable bright sauces in it. She is diverse. Of course, there are common features between Chinese, Korean and Japanese, although not many.

But if we take Thai or Indian cuisine, they are completely different, others. It is this variety, brightness, saturation and memorable taste that attracts people. The most delicious that you ate in your life? Don't even know. A very difficult question, especially when you regularly engage in culinary activities-it is difficult to stop attention on a certain dish, because you constantly open something new.

I have a dish without which I can’t imagine lunch or dinner. Since I am a Korean, my favorite dish is kimchi. Without him, I can't eat at all. If I have no kimchi at the dining table ... Nuu ... I just will not get a full pleasure from the meal. What is your favorite dish from childhood? Pizza with Saira that my mother was preparing for us. We lived in a village where there was neither a pizzeria nor McDonalds, no fast food.

And I regularly wanted to watch pizza-I loved to watch “Ninja Turtles”, and they ate pizza all the time. Mom on weekends prepared us her pizza. I have never tried this anywhere else; I don’t remember someone preparing this to me. Basically ate something similar: a fish cake, but this is not at all. Recently I even shot a video with my mother’s recipe for this pizza!

Would you like to open your own restaurant? This is a regular question that they ask me. I will not hide, I really thought about it, even investors came.But because of the recent pandemic and a very difficult economic situation, I am not in a hurry with this issue. Regarding my ideas about how the restaurant would be - it's hard to say. Of course, this would be a restaurant in Korean cuisine.

I would like it to combine elements of not only traditional, but also modern Korean cuisine, which is now very rapidly developing. Of course, so that the menu has elements and street Korean food. This segment is very widely represented in South Korea, and it is also very distinctive. In Korean restaurants in Russia, a traditional Korean cuisine or adapted? Definitely adapted.

In most Korean restaurants in which I have been in Russia, the kitchen is adapted. It is very difficult to find an institution in which they prepare a dish, exactly as they cook it in South Korea. It is banal because not all the products that are used in Korean cuisine are in Russia. Secondly, not everyone can eat such dishes. Someone loves more, someone is less acute, but if you personally visit Korea, you will be shocked by the fact that all your ideas and experience will not coincide with reality.

The simplest Korean dish that everyone can cook? I think this is Ramen. It is important to notice, not Ramen, namely Ramen. Many underestimate the noodles of quick cooking. In Russia, it is considered to be just a harmful chemical product, but if we talk about the Asian cuisine of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, then this is very tasty! There are many cooking variations, so everyone can cook it.

Even a person who has no culinary skills will be easy to cope with this. If you could eat only one dish until the end of your life, what dish would you choose? It will be very boring, very gray and uninteresting life. I can’t choose one dish - it is very difficult. What would you like to wish chefs culinary bloggers who are just starting their way? I can advise the following: remember that your content should be useful for your future audience and potential subscribers.

If this will be so, then success will definitely be waiting for you! Also, remember that the scope of blogging is not just some glossy covers and pink life. This is primarily hard work - to become a blogger, you will have to work hard, study a lot and regularly do content, and this is not so simple. Turn to hard and painstaking work, and then everything will be fine!