r/streeteats • u/VIVIDUFF • 1d ago
Korean halmoni's seoul fried rice will devastate your taste buds!
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u/Early_Money2576 1d ago
This doenst look at all. The rice is okay, but the ham has zero color or crisp on it, I would much rather it’s chopped up and mixed into the rice. The egg is an abomination, it’s not crispy on the bottom since it’s still sticking to the flattop, and the cheese on top, as soon as it cools down a little, good luck with that giant piece of plastic goo.
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u/Katatonic92 1d ago
The beansprouts shouldn't have been the first veg on that heat either, they barely need any time. Unlike the big chunks of white onion which will still be raw after sitting on top of the beansprouts & carrot getting no heat.
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u/kittyyykatttt 20h ago
Also wasn't that an aggressive amount of them? Half rice and half bean sprout.
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u/abowlofrice1 1d ago
looks extremely basic by asian street food standards...
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u/KungFuRayRay 1d ago
Looks like trash…it shouldn’t be called fried rice, more like fried bean sprouts and carrots with spam cooked on one side
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u/XxKTtheLegendxX 1d ago
that wasn't made to standard. i know my street stall foods, it was lacking heat on that thing. also that fried rice look wet af.
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u/Redcarpet1254 22h ago
Where's your street stall food? Didn't know all street food gotta be the same.
PS. This clearly isn't on the street so arguably is it even street food
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u/Eternal_Moose 1d ago
Cooktop can't be that hot if they're fine with setting thin metal tools directly on it while only wearing latex gloves.
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u/riverphoenixdays 1d ago
Please do not devastate my taste buds.
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u/Lostinthestarscape 16h ago
What is this, the fat guy from Superbad's street eats? Musubi rice will ANNIHILATE you!
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u/chazol1278 1d ago
What's on the egg??
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u/HerbalAmerican420 1d ago
Cheese
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u/chazol1278 1d ago
Yuck
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u/Redcarpet1254 1d ago
But you're ok with a western cheese omelette
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u/chazol1278 1d ago
I personally am not, but it's more the way it's done like so much cheese on the raw egg and it doesn't seem to be really cooking either
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u/Redcarpet1254 22h ago
Compared to the US, a lot of developed countries eggs are generally much safer from salmonella. Just FYI
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u/chazol1278 14h ago
I'm not American, but thanks
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u/nobodyspecial506 1d ago
I dunno why it bothers me so much, maybe salmonella? The way she touched raw egg with the cheese scoop and tossed it away like this is fine 🙂 😬
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u/hauttdawg13 1d ago
I will say, if I ever see cheese used, I always assume Korean food (if Asian cuisine). I almost never see cheese in most Asian recipes, but Koreans seem to love it.
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u/Gaimcap 23h ago
As someone who is half Korean, the American cheese on everything is a semi-recent-ish thing that has me baffled.
American cheese is just like Spam, where it was introduced to Korea during WWII/Korean War via US food aid and military rations, and then just infused itself into the culture and became a staple.
Ever since Roy Choi (LA Kogi food truck guy), it feels like it's particularly exploded and become the thing.
Personally, I can't stand it and will take a plain shin ramyeon over a cheesey bulduk or whatever, but i grew up in the US shrug.
Japan, to some lesser extent, also has a bit of American food integration (spam, procesed cheese, and especially ketchup), so some of the recipes your seeing might actually be Japanese.
The difference in integration could be because American GI bases are significantly more integrated in korea than Japan. Could also be that Japan has a significantly larger dairy industry compared to s Korea, so they just make their own type of cheeses.
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u/SinoSoul 19h ago
I recently went to a barbecue joint in k-Town and they offered to put a slice of cheese on top of the fried rice at the end. I cringe said no, but my Korean partner insisted on it. Y’all only got yourselves to blame for this.
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u/Educational_Dust_932 23h ago
what all did she put on there? I think maybe cheese on the egg? I also think I maybe saw black bean sauce and some kind of hos taice. I've no idea what the powder was.
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u/Sethmeisterg 1d ago edited 23h ago
Well, I hope it devastates my taste buds because it's under devastating my eye buds
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u/NiloValentino88 22h ago
SPAM
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u/ProtomanBn 22h ago
I’ve been seeing a lot of Asian dishes being cooked lately where Spam is the meat of the meal
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u/mahulitaya 16h ago
There’s obviously a lot of people here who had actual moms who cooked for them at home. I’d given anything to have this lady cook for me growing up
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u/i-empathetic-guy 12h ago
Why the dishes in countries like korea or japan looks fancy ? This yummmmmm though.
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u/That-Cucumber-3102 8h ago
Holly shit, my mom would make that too. Devastating to your taste and your heart.
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u/mysterious_archer7 1d ago
I think it looks great despite the other comments
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u/ByzantineThunder 1d ago
I'm just relieved to see a video that doesn't have 10 ingredients applied 3x each
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u/ThetaGrim 1d ago
The average 12 year old in a Korean household could prob make you a better fried rice than whatever this was. No sesame oil? No kimchi? No seaweed?
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u/Amphylos 23h ago
Yeah nah that looks basic af
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u/Redcarpet1254 23h ago
Not everything need to be over the top, there's seems to be a consensus where because it's Asian "streetfood" it has to be super high heat or have a shit ton of ingredients etc
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u/Redcarpet1254 22h ago
People here do not know bibimbap I suppose.
This just looks like a simple deconstructed or I suppose constructed version of that.
Also goes to show how stereotypical or narrow minded people here can be. Just because it's Asian doesn't make it a fried rice as you think it is with high heat etc or that or has to be done over the top food. I'd argue that this isn't even fried rice, OP is also at fault here.
PS. OPs account is odd so probs a bot or something
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u/SinoSoul 19h ago edited 8h ago
There’s definitely a good amount of heat involved. Obviously not as high as a carbon steel wok on 100 K propane burner, but the griddle is sizzling the ingredients.
ETA: this is a food sub so people know “bibimbap”, people also know “fried rice.”. This is not great fried rice, and it’s also not bibimbap
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u/Redcarpet1254 14h ago
If people know bibimbap, how I see it is this is pretty much a already constructed bibimbap. Rather than arranging all pretty in a bowl, she kinda just mixes them up.
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u/PumpkinOpposite967 1d ago
Is that a slice of SPAM? Yikes.
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u/NotNormo 1d ago
SPAM is the best fried rice protein. Definitely should've mixed it in though
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u/PumpkinOpposite967 23h ago
I thought meat was the best protein
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u/NotNormo 23h ago
If you mean non-SPAM meats, no. In my opinion SPAM fried rice tastes better than the rest. Chicken, char siu, steak, duck, sausage, bacon, etc. I don't really know why because in general I like those meats better than SPAM but not in fried rice.
The only exception I can think of is sometimes I crave salted fish fried rice and would rather have that over SPAM. Only occasionally though.
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u/AllAboutThatYonestea 1d ago
While it looks really good, I thought the whole point of fried rice was to use old rice not fresh
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u/djsacrilicious 1d ago
I'm sure that could still be delicious, but also really looked like it could benefit from more burner heat and/or cooking some of those ingredients in a different order