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Working: How Chef Hooni Kim Brings Korean Staples into U.S. Homes

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Karen Han discusses the basics of great Korean food with chef Hooni Kim. In the interview, Hooni starts by explaining how one of his restaurants developed a meal-kit service at the start of the pandemic. Then he discusses his latest venture, the Little Banchan Shop, which will offer packaged Korean side dishes (called Banchan), marinated meats, and other items that customers can incorporate into their home cooked meals.  After the interview Karen and co-host Isaac Butler talk about the importance of trail and error in creative work. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Karen asks Hooni about his cookbook, My Korea: Traditional Flavors, Modern Recipes.  Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. -- Link to Atlassian Work Check Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Every neighborhood in Korea, small, large, big cities, countryside, they have punch-and-stores nearby.

1:00.0

And I just thought, you know, this city, this place that I live in, has so many Korean restaurants, punch-and-stores should be next.

1:12.0

Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, Isaac Butler.

1:15.0

And I'm your other host, Karen Han.

1:18.0

Karen, who was that we heard at the top of this episode?

1:21.0

That was Chef Huni Kim, the first Michelin-star chef in Korean cuisine, the force behind the New York restaurant Donji, author of the cookbook My Korea.

1:30.0

And as of this taping, the proprietor of the little punch-and-shop in Long Island City.

1:36.0

Wow, so what made you want to talk to Chef Huni this week?

1:40.0

I'm just a huge fan of his cooking.

1:43.0

I went to both Tanji and his recently-closed restaurant, Han Jun, several times when I was living in New York.

1:48.0

Like I took my mom there, I took my partner there, and I own and cook from his cookbook as well.

1:53.0

I love his food.

1:55.0

You're just a super fan.

1:56.0

Yeah.

1:57.0

That's great. And I understand our plus members get a little something extra on their plates this week.

2:02.0

Yeah, so for Slate Plus, I talked to Chef Huni about his experience at culinary school and in other restaurants,

2:07.0

kitchen and learning about the value of good ingredients and cooking for family versus for profit from Korean mothers,

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