Pa Jun – Traditional Korean-style green onion pancakes served with seasoned soy sauce.Seafood Pa Jun – Korean-style pancakes filled with a seafood assortment and green onions, comes with a seasoned soy sauce.Gyoza (Pork, Chicken, or Vegetable) – Six dumplings, steamed or pan-fried, comes with seasoned soy sauce.Their philosophy is not “make money any way you can,” but “serve and love your neighbor the best way that you can.” Selections From The Salt & Pepper The Kitchen Menu: This is because Il Nam and Nam Yi, the two chefs and owners of Salt & Pepper, are not only skilled and talented as chefs in a variety of cuisines but also have hearts as big as the great outdoors. And they certainly don’t skimp on the portions either. No matter what you are in the mood for, whether it’s Sandwich Italiano or Bulgogi Platter, it’s all melt-in-your-mouth delicious. But now they are a lot more interested in teaching him Korean dishes than me.Salt & Pepper the Kitchen offers a truly pleasant and unique dining experience both indoor and outdoor. So what do her parents think of their Irish son-in-law and his fascination with their cuisine? “At first they thought it was very strange. In Korea, “it’s not very common for men to cook”, Pyo explains, though she says her father breaks the mould. Without even realising it, we just took everything in.” We used to do our homework at the kitchen counter, opposite the hob. Bourke describes his mother, Isabel Morton, an interior designer and writer, as a natural cook, who was cooking “very authentic Thai, Japanese, Indian and Spanish food” when things were “still a bit meat and two veg”.
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They acknowledge the influence of their families.
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I used to think he was crazy, the amount of olive oil he uses. Pyo is more direct: “I love some of the Mediterranean dishes Jordan cooks. Jina is a really good cook and I trust her palate implicitly she has a history and an ownership of the food that I don’t yet have, even after years of cooking it.” “Jina only really cooks Korean food, where as I cook both Korean and Western. The couple spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We really wanted to honour the country and food culture,” Bourke says. “Their food culture and history is enormous, and so rich and varied. The result is a beautifully shot book that goes beyond recipes into the origins and culture of Korean food. Last year we spent a month travelling around Korea, working with chefs and artisan food producers: people who make gochujang, doenjang (fermented soy bean pastes), kimchi, and pickled fruits and vegetables served as side dishes.” “We have been thinking about this book for years, so we carried out research on each trip.
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With two successful cookbooks to his name, it seemed a natural progression that Bourke would harness his Korean experience. I do stagiaires in restaurants and write from there too.” “Jina’s stockists are worldwide, and we manufacture some of the production in Seoul, so we go there for a few months each year. The couple work together on some aspects of Pyo’s fashion label, with Bourke involved in the logistics. It makes New York feel positively parochial.”
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South Korea, and Seoul in particular, is the most fast-paced, efficient, forward thinking, futuristic city. “That was amazing, to introduce my parents to Korea. Bourke, a Ballymaloe trained chef who worked with Skye Gyngell at Petersham Nurseries, explains: “We married in Ireland in December 2011 and Jina’s family came over for that, and then in April 2012 in Seoul and all my family travelled over. Three years later they got married, not once, but twice. They met in 2008 in a bar in London, where Bourke studied film and television (it runs in the family director Alan Gilsenan is a cousin) and Pyo was completing a Masters at Central St Martins. The kitchen in question isn’t in Seoul, however, it’s in West Hampstead, London, where Bourke, a food writer, private chef and food stylist who grew up in south Co Dublin, and Pyo, a fashion designer from Seoul, live and work. It’s a long way from Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, to Gangnam, Seoul (the place that inspired the viral music video Gangnam Style), and the connection is Irish/Korean couple Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo (right), who have published a book, Our Korean Kitchen.