mu che (무세) and gamza (감자) recipes?

[marysuesylw]

I hope I am spelling these correctly; they are side dishes that are served with the barbecue at our local Korean restaurant. One of the waitresses, who is very patient with me, told me the names. Mu che is white radish, I think? The dish they serve is almost pickled--I think that it must have vinegar in it--and not spicy. The gamza (potato) looks very similar to the mu che--strips of white flesh, about 1/8 inch wide and maybe 2 or 3 inches long. It is seasoned much like the mu che but is not as vinegar-y.

The mu che recipe I have found online is called "mu saengch'ae" and calls for red chili powder. Can I make it and just omit the heat? And how do I make the gamza?

감사ㅘㅁ기다!

[hyunwoo]

Mary Sue,

I think what you are looking for is 감자채

채 means thin long slices of a vegetable, so it's 감자채 instead of 무채



How to make it is simple :

You need potato, soy bean sauce, salt, cooking oil.

Slice up the potato, and wash it once again and drain all the water out of it,
and then fry it in a little bit of cooking oil over moderate fire

And after a while you start adding soy bean sauce and salt, little by little,
until you get the taste you want.

You can add onion or piman if you'd like to.







If you give it a try, let me know how it went!

[steved]

So you can cook!

[marysuesylw]

가사암니가! I made the musaengch'ae without the pepper powder. It was very good but much sweeter than I wanted. Next time I will omit the sugar! I made the potatoes by boiling them briefly and mixing them with soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, garlic, sesame seeds and a little sugar (which I will omit next time). Very good!

here is the recipe I used for the 감사: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/64/KoreanSeasonedPotatoes15827.shtml

and here is the 무세: http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=276405

[marysuesylw]

So you can cook!

We need a smiley blowing a raspberry!

[hyunwoo]

Wow Mary Sue You made it.

맛있는 음식은 나눠먹어야죠~~~ (Delicious food should be shared~~!!) Haha.


By the way, the Korean spelling for the two words are

무채 and 감자

I hope this helps

[marysuesylw]

Yes, it does help! 고맙습니다! Or may I say 고마워?

[steved]

Or 고마워요...?

[hyunwoo]

You can say 고마워, 고마워요, 고맙습니다 any of them ^_^

I wouldn't mind at all hearing 고마워,
but generally the safest among 'slightly intimate' expressions would be 고마워요

^_^

[hyunwoo]

I love 감자채, by the way

[steved]

Actually, I think Marysue's question is a good one. There are a couple of social orders at work here. She is probably older than 현우씨, 의사이기 때문에, however, there is a teacher/student relationship with 현우. So how do you know which speech level to use besides having one or the other say it is OK to speak low? Or is that generally how it happens?

[hyunwoo]

Steve, that's a very interesting point.

In Korea, in this case (she's older than me but we can call this a teacher/student relationship and she wants to stay polite,) Mary would say 고마워요 to me and keep using the -요 form of verb endings for what she says.

And after we get really really close to each other, like I call her 누나(a name for a female older than you or an older sister) and she calls me 현우야(instead of 현우 씨), then she would change to 고마워 and take out the -요.

For a more practical example,
I talk to most of my friends who are younger than me without using the -요 at the end, but if I feel I don't know them very well yet, I would attach -요 at the end.

I hope this helps!
도움이 되길 바래요!

Thanks Steve, and Mary !