On a day like today, when I feel like coming down with a cold, I try to eat/drink/hold something peeping hot. I had five cups of tea, two spoonful of honey, hot soba lunch, and bouillabaisse dinner (it's so handy to have yummy dishes frozen, especially soups!).
My quest for something "hot" went on to clothes and shoes -- my ultimate wardrobe choice was beige wrap-around jacket with black cashmere scarf (wrapping around my neck all day), pale lemony ballerina skirt (the only glimpse of summer today), and black shiny mary jane shoes. Hot went on. I had written hot emails, re-read my hot-nets paper submission ;-), and of course tried to be slightly less hot at office doing all that.
Just when I finished dinner and started feeling better, I suddenly missed another kind of hot that I hadn't enjoyed for a long time. The taste of hot and spicy street food from Korea -- those food with spoonful of red paprika paste that dyes any food with red red color, the sweetness in sesame seeds, a kick of raw garlic, green spring onions, ... how I missed it. Just the though of it already made my appetite come back in no time, I couldn't wait any more!
My eyes started searching for the recipe on the Internet my mom told me when I was 10, the nighttime snack she and her sisters & brothers used to have in late 1950s after the Korean war, a recipe that is so simple and poor that deceives you it's near-zero calorie, a taste that is so addictive you will ask for more --- voila, a glass noodle dish!
spicy glass noodle recipe (in Korean)
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