About
Bahn Chahn, the side dishes
If you had to have only one side dish, it would be kimchee,
but there are meals where up to forty side dishes are served!
Their role is to encourage your appetite and to balance main
dishes, or just show off! It is of course possible to eat
only rice and bahn chahn, and very well too, as side dishes
are made of anything and everything, and by increasing the
volume, some side dishes do very well as a main dish. Bahn
Chahn can most easily be categorised by the way they are prepared.
Moochim refers to vegetables, fresh or dried, either
blanched or boiled and drained, then tossed in a variey
of dressing, from simple sesame oil and salt to more complex
flavourings; Jorim can be vegetables, fish or meat
braised in soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil; Juhn can
also be of vetable, seafood or meat , coated in flour,then
egg, and pan-fried; Bokeum usaully involve combination
of vegetable and seafood or meat, cut into
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