Who Is The Red Flash?

first, i have to state that this is a totally brilliant concept, and not one of my own devising. i was first alreted to the concept by the amazing kogi bbq story, and i got the original recipe from seriouseats, which i often mine for culinary inspiration.

basically, after an entirely successful sunday breakfast of bacon and egg quesadillas, we had several toritllas (actually they were turkish tortilla style flatbreads, but let’s not split hairs, ok, at least not today). rather than see them dry out and curl up at the edges, mocking my predilection for wasteful profligacy (you didn’t see that coming, did you?), i racked my brains for something to do with them. lo and behold, up into my rss reader pops the aforementioned article on seriouseats.

a lack of time, and a late finish at the office solving river crimes across the galaxy, meant that i didn’t quite have the inclination to make my own bulgogi sauce. wrestling with my own weakness, i headed straight for my favourite japanese-korean supermarket to pick up a jar of excellent pre made bulgogi marinade, along with some amazingly zesty and powerfully stanked kim chee. the previously mentioned recipe suggests finely chopping both the pork and the kim chee, but i prefer to stripify the entire affair, so left the kim chee chunky and cut the pork into long strips.

i also really wanted to use the lime marinated onions, but had no limes. disaster i hear you wail. indeed no. my ever agile mind settled upon the amazing flavour combination of lemon juice, lemon zest and mirin. worked a treat. i also added some iri goma (black toasted sesame seeds) and nori flakes to the rice, for some extra jazz.

if you’ve never had a korean birdreedo, then stop farqing around and make one immediately, you’ll never look back