How to fry Mandu or Korean Dumpling

Quick reference on how to fry Mandu...
lightly oil the pan
Lightly cover frying pan with oil and fry on medium heat. If it's too high Mandu might burn without properly cooking the inner part. We don't want that!
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Korean Seafood Pancake-Haemul Pajeon Recipe

Whew...these days Maryland has been soaked with rain...rain...and more rain...and has been little depressing. Although we had short 'vacation' from rain for couple of days with beautiful days, it seems like we will be getting lots more later on. On these days many Koreans look for nice and hot soup or something fried, like Haemul Pajeon , Seafood Korean style Pancake.

Haemul Pajeon or Seafood Korean pancake
Korean Pancake is not usually made for Breakfast like Pancake you may know. It's usually an appetizer, sidedish, or snack. But you decide what it could be. And you decide what size you want it to be. If you order this in the restaurant, it's usually the size of a whole pizza. I guess you could also say this is Korean pizza. This time we made it smaller just because.

So shall we start?

Ingredients: Makes about 15 palm(your hand) sized pancakes

15 Shrimp
1 Squid
150g crab meat
10 scallions/green onion
1 cup Korean pancake mix
3 cups Korean frying mix
4 cups water
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Korean Zucchini Jun-Banchan/Sidedish Recipe

Like zucchini (Hobak)? Let's make some Hobak Jun (Fried Zucchini).  Just grab one zucchini, 2 eggs, salt, and flour. Oh and some vegetable oil or olive oil (your preference). If you want to make more, just grab some more.
zucchini jun

Got everything? OK. Let's start!
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