Cooking Genius With God

"Oops!"

A few days later.

In the middle of a bustling early morning market.

Haru and Yumi, who bought all the ingredients for the table heaven, headed to the snack bar in the center of the market today.

Originally, I skipped breakfast or made light meals at restaurants, but I wanted to eat tteokbokki because of Deputy Kim's incident.

When Haru put down vegetable bags in both hands next to the street vendor, Yumi made a thump sound on the box she was holding.

Soybean, black rice, sesame oil from the mill, etc. to make mixed-grain rice on 3 plates of eggs.…. There were heavy things in it. Yumi insisted that she would hold it.

In addition, Yumi was a strong businessman, so she came to the market every day to shop and did a lot of porter work.

"What would you like to eat, Yumi?"

"If you're at a market snack bar, you know that the government has decided to give you a set of rice cakes, fries, and boneless trimesters.”

"Is it a state law?"

"Of course! If you're eating tteokbokki, you'll crave tempura, if you eat tempura, you'll crave sundae, and if you eat all three of them, you'll have to wash your mouth with slush. Oh, and!"

"And?"

"At the end of the day, I had a fish cake and a cup of soup to go to the market. Isn't that right?”

It was a day when I thought that everything would go in, but when I saw Yumi's eyes, I thought there was no need to ask.

It was just 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., but the market was crowded.

The spicy smell of tteokbokki, the savory smell of fried food, and the smell of fish cake came up between the busy words of the merchants and the busy steps.

The scenery of the early morning market, its unique scent.

One day I liked these little things.

As Yumi told me, I ordered a full set of "Tteok-Twi-Soon" and slushies.

Soon a considerable amount of food was served.

If it was eaten on the streets of Seoul, it would have cost more than 15,000 won, but only 9,000 won here.

Just entering the market alley makes the price almost half.

"Hmm, this is it!"

Yumi really enjoyed the snack bar as if she proved that her nickname was real.

It's basic to dip something like sundae in spicy and red tteokbokki soup.

After bringing a large skewer, I ate tteokbokki rice cake, fried squid, and sundae in one bite, and ate pickled radish to cleanse my mouth.

Then, he siphoned off the coke slush saying that sweet and salty is the truth, bowed his head and grumbled, saying that he had a headache, and he thought he would put the Milky Way with star balloons even if he did an eating show.

It was Yumi who ate any dish made by Haru as if she was dying of taste, but I could feel the sincerity of Tteokbokki.

"You eat very well."

"Because it's delicious! To be honest, the tteokbokki here is really good. I've tried almost all the tteokbokki in the country, so you can trust me!”

"You can't help but believe it if you enjoy it like this."

"Huh, isn't, right? That's why I'm saying this. Chef Haru. As a matter of fact, right? There's only one difference between market tteokbokki and school tteokbokki."

"What's the difference?”

"Sauce! It tastes the same just by matching the sauce!"

Yumi, who proudly opens her chest and speaks.But one day, he scratched his head, saying, "I don't know."

Tteokbokki itself is not a sauce-flavored dish from the first place.

I couldn't understand you because you said such obvious things for granted.

"Only real tteokbokki masters know this. There are about three types of tteokbokki."

"Cream tteokbokki, royal tteokbokki, something like that?"

"No way! Just red pepper paste, ketchup, curry. These three things."

This is a part that may vary slightly from region to regionally.

Some snack bars sell only simple gochujang tteokbokki, and others add a little ketchup or curry to the gochujang base.

But that was literally just the case at a few snack bars in front of schools.

Few places are making such tteokbokki now.

"By the way, that's actually all I know. We don't know what kind of base the tteokbokki is in your memory. If you could visit the restaurant one more time before Friday, I could ask...….”

But there's a problem here too.

I found out the secret about the taste of tteokbokki in front of the school in the old days, but I don't know which one of the three tastes like.

Furthermore, there is no guarantee that Deputy Kim will visit the restaurant before Friday.

The wrinkles on Yumi's forehead were about to deepen, but she opened her mouth, saying that the day was natural.

"Maybe it's ketchup base.”

"What? It's...How do you know?"

"Manager Kim said that. When I was in elementary school, I went there often and ate it. It was a popular snack bar among my friends.”

"Right?"

"Most elementary school students can't eat spicy food. Of course, it's not red pepper paste, but curry has a pungent taste, so I don't like it. Besides, the kids like sweet ketchup."

"So all you have left is ketchup? Really! Wow, Mr. Haru!

Yumi, who heard Haru's words, was absent-minded for a while, and soon clapped her hands.

As expected, people who know this much about cooking are different.

"Let's go right back and make it.”

"Yes, of course! Leave it to me. I'm going to make it the best taste I've ever had!"

Now I'm at a loss for cooking.

Haru and Yumi, whose motivation is starting to burn.

After eating up the leftovers, he quickly walked to the store with what he had bought speed.

In the meantime, of course, it blossomed into a story about which recipe to use.

Around the time we got out of the market and almost arrived at the store that wasn't far away.

Yumi, who was drawing the cooking process in her head, found a day that turned into a strange expression and stopped.

"That's why we put red pepper paste and starch syrup on the sauce as a base! Put in a little bit of fish cake, and a lot of green onions. I'm already drooling.Mr. Haru?

One day I suddenly stopped in the street, I was looking somewhere.

One way into the restaurant. And a little old restaurant in the middle of the road.

It was a place called Camellia Butcher's Restaurant, which sells ribs.

It is a place where pork is sold at a reasonable price, and it seems like a meat restaurant that leads to a good restaurant for residents, considering that it is a place where customers who visit restaurants often come out of their mouths.

I hear you've been in business for three generations.

In short, it's a street-based shop.Of course, I've been closed for almost two weeks now for some unknown reason.

Customers said it was probably a health issue, but it seemed like it was nothing.

But another store was about to be built next to the camellia butcher's restaurant.

A sophisticated shop with a young sensibility that doesn't go well with this place, which used to be a bit old.

And, the same meat restaurant as camellia flower restaurant.

"Infinite Galbi Restaurant?"

"Oh, that's a very popular pork ribs restaurant these days. It's 13,000 won. You can get unlimited refills for galbi. It's very popular. Looks like it's starting to pop up here, too.

"That's unusual. Even if meat restaurants are common, it's normal that they don't appear next to other meat restaurants like this."

"By the way…… well, maybe it's just expanding because unlimited raw meat is really popular these days."

"Maybe it is. Since you said the parent company is a big franchise. By the way, the owner of the camellia flower restaurant must be having a hard time."

"I hope everything's fine. How long have you been doing business here?"

"As expected, right?”

The restaurant, which has been in business for a long time, has deep down.

The roots are so deep that they don't shake easily.

That's how I learned, and it was a day I believed in, so I turned around thinking that everything would be fine.

But strangely enough, it kept bothering me.

I didn't know why or why.

* * *

After a few trials and errors like that, it became Friday.

One of the first things to do before opening the restaurant is to write down today's menu on the menu in front of the restaurant.

Yumi, who carried a chalk and an eraser, wrote down the menu in a large size, and even drew a colorful picture of cute food.

[Today's Heaven Formal: Tteokbokki, tuna kimbap, fish cake skewers]

That’s right.

Today is the long-awaited Friday.

It was the day when Deputy Kim decided to visit the restaurant with the person he said was his first love.

Haru and Yumi, who wanted to succeed in their first and last relationship, worked hard to prepare for him, and Choi Hanseok was very confident.

Especially, the broth was boiled in advance.

It was a simple boiled broth with anchovies, radish, and kelp, but there was nothing like this to use as a base for tteokbokki.

Like any other dish, I made marinade first.

The main ingredient is red pepper paste and ketchup.

Add the two seasonings in a 1:1 ratio, then add minced garlic, starch syrup, red pepper powder, soy sauce, etc. and mix them well.

He also did not forget the details of adding a little bit of the taste of his hometown to recreate the taste properly.

If the broth is served and the sauce is made, the cooking is almost over.

Whisk the marinade in the dark brown broth and when it starts to boil, add the rice cake first.

When the long rice cake is half-cooked, add onions, green onions, cabbage, fish cake, and boiled eggs and boil them.

If the onion is soft and the rice cake is well seasoned, it's done!

It has a bit of ketchup, so it has a slightly sour scent.

A red and glossy tteokbokki was made in an instant.

"Boss, I'm done preparing the ingredients for the gimbap!"

"Good job. I'll be right there."

Yumi's voice was heard in a timely manner.

What I'm going to make today is tuna kimbap.

Put seasoned rice with sesame oil and salt on top of dried seaweed for black kimbap.

Put ingredients such as carrots, burdock, ham, and pickled radish one by one and add enough canned tuna on top of sesame leaves.And then the creaking...! Squeeze a lot of mayonnaise, and you're done with this is it.

Compared to tteokbokki, it takes a lot of work, but it was still fun to wrap it one by one.

Fish cake soup was easily made by simply adding fish cake on skewers to the stir-fried rice cake broth and seasoning it with soy sauce.

It's easy to make, but the taste is clear.

That was the charm of street food that Haru thought.

This is the end of today's business preparation.

Hours to open a restaurant and start a business.

Darkness began to fall on the streets outside the table's paradise.

Soon after, the waiting guest arrived.

A man and a woman in their early 30s who had an ambiguous distance.

The woman who saw the other guests eating opened her mouth.

"What, what. It smells exactly the same!"