For incredibly cheap Korean cooking, such as tteokbokki, fried chicken and kim bab, it’s hard to go past this Strathfield hot spot. Don’t forget to finish off your meal with a cute wobbly milk bunny! August 26, 2024 You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more.
Save this article for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Korean $ $$$ In the middle of Korean street food restaurant Miss ary in Strathfield, on wooden tables lit by glowing red lights with winking eyes and tiny white-gloved hands, sit bowls of tteokbokki. Seated customers surround them, slurping the dish’s rich, spicy mix of chewy Korean wheat cakes (tteok), stir-fried (bokki) and served in a sweet and savoury crimson sauce made with fermented chilli condiment gochujang.
I am one of them, alternately swishing finger-length tubes of wheat cake, bookmark-like slices of fish cake and freshly shredded shallot through the house-made sauce. It’s the sort of dish you can’t stop eating. Hot, tangy and sugary, with added smoky, umami flavours.
There is so much going on with each mouthful. Tteokbokki, or tok bok ki as it’s spelt on the Miss ary menu, is one of the after-school snacks that chef Giwan Kim and pastry chef Sun Young Park, the husband and wife owners of this eight-month-old restaurant, ate growing up in South Korea. “It’s what we’d go with friends to buy together from our pocket money,” Park says.
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