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- Hello everybody!

Look at me.

I'm wearing very special shirt today.

There is only one in the world.

Very, very precious to me.

Last year when I did my book launch party,

I took this white shirt, that is totally white shirt

because my readers are supposed to come.

My readers and viewers and they want my autograph usually

but this time, I wanted their autograph.

After I signed their book, they signed this shirt.

This is many people's autographs.

Precious autographs that I'm wearing.

This shirt is full of good wishes.

I save this shirt for one year because I knew today,

we are going to make Korean bibimbap.

Bibimbap is mixed rice with vegetables

and meat and spicy sauce.

This is delicious, nutritious, perfect one bowl meal.

We are going to prepare several vegetables

to make very colorful and tasty.

Each ingredient is all respected, all nice.

Also cooked a different way and just

all they have their own unique tastes and flavors

cooking time's different also.

Cooking style is different but eventually,

when we eat it, we just mixed it.

The reason I'm wearing this special shirt

is that this is like all different,

my readers, you guys are from all around the world.

You have your own culture.

I have my own culture, Korean culture,

so this is like a bibimbap.

Bibimbap is all different ingredients

and then they just met together,

we make our own community, world,

and all we are happy.

We are supposed to be happy, helping each other.

So this is bibimbap kind of philosophy.

I'm a philosopher?

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Did I go too far?

Actually, I studied philosophy at university.

Let's make delicious bibimbap!

Delicious, nutritious, and all the harmony, balanced.

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(plastic wrapper crunching)

These are soybean sprouts, kongnamul.

This is one of the most essential ingredients

to make bibimbap.

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Pick out any deadbean here.

Deadbean.

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I'm going to use this here.

I will add four cups water.

This is 12 ounce soybean sprouts and add some salt.

And boil.

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Soybean sprouts, very essential

and then second essential is spinach side dish.

You know spinach side dish?

Sigeumchi-namul.

A few weeks ago I uploaded the video.

You guys know how to do it.

If you don't know, check out the video.

This is half a pound spinach

I blanched this and washed in the cold water,

squeezed out, and then I'm going to season this.

Little garlic, sesame oil.

Sigeumchi-namul for bibimbap is a little different

because I don't want to use soy sauce here to make it brown

so instead of that, I will use salt.

These are toasted sesame seeds.

Very crispy.

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To keep the flavor, I like to cover this spinach.

We need something like red color,

really pretty red color

We usually use carrot or these days,

red bell pepper is very stunning looking,

pretty when you cook this.

You can use either one or use both.

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Make it stable then slice thinly.

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We are going to make thin matchsticks.

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Sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Sooner or later,

it'll be sweating and then we are going to stir fry.

I'm going to show you also red bell pepper.

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So this one, leftover, for the fried rice.

You can use this.

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If you are really, really busy,

you know, no time to prepare other ingredients,

just this three color and also later,

egg, sunny side egg and then

you can make a nice, delicious bibimbap.

This is soybean sprouts.

20 minutes I boiled over medium-high heat.

Kongnamul, when you boil this kongnamul,

never just check, in five minutes later,

"oh, it is cooked or not?"

Because once we open this,

we say it's " fishy" ( bee-reen-nae) it smells not good.

That's why 20 minutes over medium-high heat cook.

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Just leave a little here.

This smells really good.

Then zucchini.

Zucchinii, when it's cooked, really tasty

and also especially, when you mix with rice

it's juicy and sweet.

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Wow, one zucchini make really lots of matchsticks!

A lot! also sprinkle with salt.

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Next, cucumber.

Cucumber is also very crispy.

I'm going to use just a little bit.

Slightly I'm going to cook also.

It's really tasty.

Cucumber flavor and plus crispy texture are really good.

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salt.

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I'll just chop up this green onion.

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Next I'm going to prepare my beef.

Usually, Korean bibimbap,

on top, raw beef is.

just when you serve this,

raw beef is very important.

It will really enhance beauty and also taste,

and also nutrient.

When you serve this in a bibimbap bowl,

hot rice and on top, some all vegetables,

and raw beef, seasoned raw beef.

When you mix this, it's a little bit cooking

and perfect when you eat this,

The texture is very, very good.

I'll just use just a little bit amount.

This is filet mignon part.

You have to ask your butcher.

" oh, I'm going to use beef tartare."

"We are going to eat raw beef."

+Which one is the most fresh?"

Thin matchsticks like this.

(knife chopping)

Lots of garlic and soy sauce.

This is honey.

Lots of sesame oil.

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This is going to be sweet and garlicky, lots of garlic.

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Sesame seeds.

Cover this.

Let's keep in the refrigerator

until we use this.

Now I'll make rice.

This is large platter.

We are going to cook each ingredient

and make a colorful, beautiful display.

Already I made spinach side dish and soy bean sprouts.

We gotta season this soybean sprouts.

Some salt.

And garlic.

Sesame oil.

And mix.

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Usually chopped green onion,

I add when I make kongnamul muchim but

for this bibimbap, I don't do this

I like to make it kind of yellow color stand out.

This guy's number two.

Soybean sprouts, spinach is already cooked and seasoned.

These guys are done.

So I'm going to set aside and I'll show you

next important ingredient.

You know that this one is gosari.

Gosari is a korean fernbrake.

And cut.

Next ingredient.

This is doraji.

Doraji is a dried sliced bellflower root.

Have you ever heard about bellflower root?

This is white.

It looks like ginseng kind of root but

this product is already dried. Split and dried.

They look like this.

Smells like herb, ginseng smell.

It look like that and I, overnight,

soaked and changed some water. It looks like this.

It's a huge difference.

Just this one is very easy.

You can soak in water.

You don't have to boil.

This, kind of its taste is a little bitter

so what I'm doing is that I will pour out water

and then, I just rub with salt

and then rinse it cold water.

That's the way that we handle this

dried bellflower root, doraji.

Here, let's add some salt.

Rubbing with salt, bitterness comes out from

bellflower roots and also it makes it little softer.

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(water swishing)

I will add this here.

This amount.

If this is too thick, you need to split this.

Like this.

Tear easily.

These colorful vegetables,

we are going to cook from now.

Carrot, water comes out, now it's juicy.

Red bell pepper, zucchini.

Zucchini is also sweating.

Cucumber's also sweating.

We are going to slightly cook.

I will use my burner because easily you guys can see.

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When you make real traditional bibimbap,

all ingredients are cooked.

We always a little slightly cook.

Squeeze out excess water and add this.

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Quickly sautee, beautiful!

Make it a little tender.

With wet towel, I just cleaned up quickly.

Add some cooking oil.

Next, cucumber.

Cucumber has lots of water.

I like to squeeze out a little bit.

Then add.

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You can add some garlic.

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Little sesame oil.

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Then red bell pepper.

You can add some salt.

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Put this in here.

With wet towel, clean.

Each time I sautee ingredients

I like to clean up

because I don't want to see all mixed color.

Individual ingredient, its taste is different.

This is zucchini.

Zucchini, also lots of water was drawn out.

Squeeze out.

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And garlic.

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And sesame oil.

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You can add some green onion,

chopped green onion.

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Turn off.

I will put it here.

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The leftover two ingredients are

bellflower root, doraji namul,

and gosari namul, fernbrake.

That's all! Now how many?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

When you learn how to make bibimbap,

you are supposed to learn Korean side dishes, how many.