um, noraleah:
For a party on Saturday, M. and Akiko made Bo Ssäm, a specialty of Momofuku Ssäm Bar (Akiko used to be a chef there).
It’s an entire pork butt that is brined, slow-cooked, and basted with brown sugar. It’s so tender that it falls apart with the flick of a fork. You wrap it in lettuce leaves with a variety of quick-pickles (Asian pear, ginger, red onion, jicama, cucumber, and radishes), sagyegeol ssäm jang (a Korean soybean paste), kimchee, and rice.*
It is out of this world.
Here’s mine (hell yeah I ate meat for the occasion!):
And I totally ate some for breakfast the next day.
* At Ssäm Bar it’s served with raw oysters. You may remember Anthony Bourdain and David Chang gorging on it on an episode of “No Reservations.”
if this is what you and your friends do, can i be one of them…? ;o)
