After the
recording session, we signed up for the SJI Carnival and decided to set up a
stall selling Spicy Korean Rice Cakes (Ttebokki). Cooking is not really a
simple task for us, judging that we are the ones who always ordered takeaways
and seldom cook at home. Therefore, to learn how to cook this traditional
Korean dish, I approached the lady boss (Jung Ran ssi) of the Korean Restaurant,
Hansik Restaurant, that I frequently patronised.
After
communicating to her about the SJI charity carnival in my broken Korean, I sent
her an email to reconfirm our intention.
And she
replied yes!
So on 31st
of March all 10 of the KCC members went to her restaurant during the staff
break time to learn more about how to cook ttebokki. Not only did Jung Ran ssi demonstrate to us
how to cook the rice cakes, she also gave us a detailed printout of the recipe.
Not to forget, all of us also get to enjoy the pot of rice cakes she cooked for
us during the demonstration. Needless to say, it was really yummy—and of course
free food for once.
We later
went on to plan out what ingredients to buy and decided to order about $60
worth of rice cakes, fish cakes and spicy rice cake sauce from Jung Ran ssi.
The
following week Friday—which is after Founder’s Day celebrations (one day before
SJI Carnival), we went on to Jung Ran ssi’s restaurant to collect our
ingredients. We too went on to NTUC Fairprice to buy other ingredients such as
cabbages, carrots and leek.
A tryout
session and a pre-cooking preparation session is a must. So back at my place,
we went on to cut up all the fish cakes, leek, and carrots and put them into
plasic containers to use it for the carnival the next day. A trial was also
carried out to test out the cooking using an induction heater and to gage how
the food will taste.
On the
actual SJI Carnival on 5th of April, we went on to cook ttebokki and
it received rather good response! We sold it at $2 with a cup of complimentary
tea (in which was sponsored by Ruo Xuan—she can’t finish it ^-^) and many
friends and family(of course) came in to support us.
There were
some sort of problems such as power failure at the canteen in the middle of the
carnival such that we cannot cook our food for about an hour or so, but we
managed to get another room with power supply and solved the problems.
It was
overall a fun and enjoyable experience! ^-^
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