For three weeks, a Korean based in the city will take over a food store in Bandra, whipping up different gimbap, guk and jumeokbap that she grew up eating back home
"It's so difficult to find Korean ingredients in Mumbai. But over the last six years, I've figured out how to use effective substitutes. Bhindi, for example, works really well in some Korean dishes," says Yeoita Lee when we meet her at the outlet of a seafood retailer in Bandra.
Yeoita Lee makes gimbap, a Korean-style rice-and-seaweed roll
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The 34-year-old, who has lived in Mumbai since 2012, has collaborated with the store to host her first pop-up, one that will have her whip up authentic delicacies from South Korea, over three weekends.
Expect gimbap (Rs 380 to Rs 430) and jumeokbap (Rs 350 to Rs 410), rice-based finger snacks that are must-haves in any Korean picnic box. Apart from this, Lee is also serving two types of guk (soup; Rs 180), and kimchi, a typical side dish made traditionally from salted and fermented napa cabbage.
Although a Korean native, Lee has lived away from home for long. "I moved out when I was 15, and lived in the US for a bit. Then, I graduated from the École Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland. Various jobs have taken me around the world since," she says, adding that she started cooking regularly after moving out, because she got homesick and missed her mother's cooking.
"I learnt the recipes from my mother and grandmother. Here in India, since I don't find all the ingredients I need, I tweak them," she says, adding that she especially enjoys making and tucking into a Korean-style pan-fried Bombay duck. "I now work as a consultant for a restaurant in Nashik, but I hope to start my own restaurant some day," she smiles.
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