Jinah Chang is chef and owner of Base is Nice Restaurant in South Korea, where vegetables are the star of the menu. She prepares grilled lotus root and shishito peppers with sesame sauce and two types of rice.

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Kang MinGoo is chef and owner of the two Michelin-star restaurant Mingles in Seoul, South Korea. Mingles aims to reinterpret Korean cuisine by serving creative dishes with seasonal local ingredients. In this video, Chef MinGoo prepares a dessert inspired by bibimbap. He makes ice cream made from glutinous rice pudding, garnished with fresh herbs, sesame oil and soy sauce.

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Kim Byung-jin is the Chief Executive Chef of Gaon restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. In this video, he shows us how he makes white kimchi stuffed inside an Asian pear.

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Chef Cho Heesuk from the Michelin-starred restaurant Hansikgonggan, located in Seoul, shows us a number of traditional Korean pickles. She explains the three foundational techniques for fermenting vegetables in Korea: soy sauce, soy bean paste, and gochujang. 

Known as the “Godmother of Korean cuisine,” Chef Che Hee Sook was named Best Female Chef as part of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2020. She is known for bringing traditional Korean cuisine onto the fine dining world stage. Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea

Kimchi Master Lee Ha Yeon shows us how to make three different classic kimchis: red kimchi with napa cabbage, white kimchi with napa cabbage, and a red kohlrabi kimchi. She discusses the ingredients and techniques used in the fermentation process, as well as the health benefits of kimchi. She prepares these recipes in the Museum Kimchikan in Seoul, South Korea, which is dedicated to the history, regional varieties, and cultural importance of kimchi.

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The Venerable Jeong Kwan Seunim is a Buddhist nun at the Chunjinam Hermitage at the Baegyangsa temple in Jangseong, South Korea. During a visit to The Culinary Institute of America’s Global Plant-Forward Culinary Summit, she madeKorean tofu jang dressing, tofu noodles, and garden vegetables that she gathered at the gardens at The CIA at Copia. 

Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea

The Venerable Jeong Kwan Seunim is a Buddhist nun at the Chunjinam Hermitage at the Baegyangsa temple in Jangseong, South Korea. She visited The Culinary Institute of America at Copia in Napa to make her dish of fried tofu, seaweed, potato and lotus root chips with sweet and sour sauce. She combined special items brought from her temple with vegetables she growing in Copia’s gardens to make her dish. 

Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea

The Venerable Jeong Kwan Seunim, dubbed “The Philosopher Chef” by The New York Times, is a Buddhist nun and renowned expert on Korean temple cuisine. Her Buddhist cultural approach to eco-friendly eating practice has been shaped over centuries and handed down based on the foundation of Buddhist philosophy.

Although first and foremost a Buddhist nun, not a chef, she has been cooking at her hermitage ever she became a nun at the age of 17. Jeong Kwan Seunim was featured in a 2017 screening of her appearance on Chef’s Table Season 3 on Netflix, at the Berlin Film Festival in the category of documentary film series. Since then, much of her philosophical wisdom in temple food cooking and eating practices has spread out to the world. The Chunjinam hermitage at Baekyangsa monastery has received a great number of visitors who travel there from around the world, seeking to learn from Jeong Kwan Seunim. Jeong Kwan Seunim became the recipient of the prestigious Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants Icon Award 2022.

In this video, she shows us three different tofu dishes and talks about Buddhist temple cooking and sustainable eating practices. Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea

Jun Lee ‘10, executive chef and owner of two-star Michelin restaurant, SOIGNÉ, in Seoul, makes Barley Risotto with Cuttlefish, Pine Nut Puree, Corvina Flakes, and Barley Tea Clam Broth. Chef Lee prepares this elegant risotto with barley, rice, white wine, and pine nut puree to impart a slightly nutty flavor. He adds barley tea as a broth as a nod to the traditional Korean flavor palette and to add something familiar and comforting to the dish. 

Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea

Jun Lee ‘10, executive chef and owner of two-star Michelin restaurant, SOIGNÉ, in Seoul, makes sea snails with three seaweeds. The seaweed is topped with an abalone tartare. This is served as an amuse bouche.

Watch the full Asian Plant-Forward Kitchen: Korea documentary and find plant-forward recipes at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/korea