Korean Cooking 101 - Ingredients

Gook Ganjang - If you can see on the bottom it says "Traditional Korean Soy Sauce (for soup)" and that's the best description of it. It's basically a light soy sauce that is used to flavor broth. You should most definitely buy a Korean brand because it is very different from other 'light' soy sauces that might be out there.

Sesame oil - I just buy whatever is on sale.

Dwen jang - aka soy bean paste is used for a lot of different types of soups. I bought this particular brand looking for a change from my other usual brand that I didn't see at the store. Haitai always makes pretty good products, so you can't really go wrong with them.

Gochu jang - aka red pepper paste (on this blog) - aka hot bean paste is exactly that. It's paste made from red peppers and I prefer the one made by Haitai.

Rice wine or cooking wine - I'm currently using this, but tend to buy whatever is the cheapest because they all taste the same to me.

Corn Syrup

Soy Sauce

Red pepper oil

Fish Sauce - There are a lot of Korean brands of fish sauce, but personally I like using the Vietnamese Three Crabs brand.

Gga-nari fish sauce

Red pepper powder - My MIL brought us this from Korea.

Honey Powder

Dried Shrimp

Miyuk - dried seaweed (plant?) whatever...

Shrimp Jut - Salted Shrimp

Tempura powder (on the left) and Panko crumbs (on the right).