When I don’t want to cook or have my mom cook, I love heading over to H Mart for something good and quick and hearty. Here are some selections. This is a random spicy pork stir-fry dish from monsieur tong tong. I mean, it was ok, but I wasn’t sure what type of cuisine this was supposed to be. It was pretty spicy.
here the tonkatsu from Monsieur Tong Tong. By far, this is their best dish, and probably some of my most favorite tonkatsu of all time. The piece of pork is absolutely huge and I really like their sauce. I could seriously eat this all the time.
My mom’s hwedupbap type of dish… with all kinds of shredded fresh veggies, imitation crab, fish eggs, and raw fish slices. Isn’t it colorful and beautiful? It tasted great too, except there were some bits of green stuff I did not like. I wasn’t quite sure what it was… it wasn’t exactly sesame leaves, but it wasn’t either. Whatever it was, I did not like!
A heaping bowl of chajangmyun, served with julienned cucumbers on top. For whatever reason, they always serve chajangmyun with cucumbers. I’d recommend all of these to try, except for the pork stir-fry. It’s ok, just not particularly interesting or great.

So typically, my mom makes korean pancakes, pajeon, with chives. This time, she didn’t have any, so she made it with zucchini instead. I think there’s some scallions and onions in there too. This one might have some chopped baby shrimp in here too.
So she took a couple of zucchini and diced it into thin short strips. She added some chopped scallion and a handful of very finely sliced onions. Then put in some packaged korean pancake mis and add the recommended amount of water, per the package’s instructions.Yep, that’s it. But really, you can put whatever you want in your pancake. Add your favorite diced vegetables, add seafood, add kimchi, add meat, add oysters, add whatever! You should experiment, you might ending up coming up with a deliciously odd korean style pancake.
Then just pan fry them with a bit of oil. You could make a big one and then cut it into bite sized pieces, or you can just make many little bite sized pancakes. I prefer my pajeon to be thinner and crisp on the outside. Others like them thicker and mushier on the inside. Just cook them the way you like them!

So I have talked before about my mom’s “hamburger” dish. It is not actually a hamburger, nor is it anything like japanese hambagu or hamburg. It is just something my mom came up with a long time ago. So here’s another non-recipe!
For whatever reason, we have a mix of meats this time. Typically, I think she does all beef, but in this instance, we have a half a pound of ground beef and a half a pound of ground pork.
Take a few carrots, peel them, and then chop them into very fine bits. Here, my mom, with her fine fine knife skills, has julienned the carrots first into really thin juliennes, and then chopped those even further.
Here are a few small onions. Chop these really finely too!
Add some plain breadcrumbs.Finally, add a couple of eggs! Mix it all together! That’s it. Then you can make them into little patties and pan fry them. This also freezes well so you can freeze the mixture and then defrost it for whenever you’re ready to cook them up. I think this is something that kids would definitely love!