The life of a self-employed restaurateur who has adapted the organization of his business in order to survive the Covid-19.
Mr. Lee Ki Beom is a Budae Jjigae specialist .
“Budae” means military base.
Budae Jjigae which can be translated as “army fondue” is a Korean dish dating from the end of the Korean war -1953-
Hungry Koreans scavenged American ingredients from their old bases: canned sausages, canned beans, and incorporated these ingredients into a traditional dish, “kimchi jjigae”.
The first versions of this dish were without kimchi and with few vegetables, they contained only the remains of the army.
Korean dishes are generally very healthy, unlike this dish which often uses industrial ingredients too salty, which makes budae jjigae a dish with a status of its own.
In case you were wondering, we have not become specialists in Korean gastronomy. It’s just that thanks to Kim Hyun Joong we are still learning something Korean every week.
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The backlit images of this episode are simply magnificent, and it is also our pleasure to see that these videos with the new concept “Healing Room” are quickly the subject of a more important viewing every week.
On the other hand, we missed a visitor this time, this cat who had been on the set for 2 weeks.
He may come back soon with the rest of his family …