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Birthday Soup – It Has Seaweed Because.

Cooking Time: 1483 minutes
Recipe Difficulty: Easy
Servings Amount: 8

Recipe Lead: …for when you want to impress a Korean person on their birthday…

Ingredients

Dashi

  • 2 sheets dashima* (dried kelp)
  • 1 handful dried shiitake mushrooms
  • 8 cups filtered water

Soup

  • 2 cups dried seaweed** (not the same as dashima)
  • 1 cup shiitake mushrooms
  • 2 tbsp dry malt powder**
  • 2 cloves garlic (minced)
  • 8 cups dashi
  • 2 tbsp non-dairy milk
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tsp cracked black pepper
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil

Dashi.

  1.  Place all ingredients together in an airtight container and leave overnight in the fridge.
  2.  The following day, remove dashima and dried mushrooms and bring liquid to a boil.  Once it cools enough to handle safely, pour liquid through a cheesecloth to remove any residual solids.

Soup.

  1.  Sauté mushrooms in sesame oil over medium high heat in a large soup pot (I used my Dutch oven) until they get nice and brown.  Add garlic.
  2. Pour in dashi and add seaweed, salt, and black pepper.  Bring to a boil and then let it simmer for 20 minutes.
  3. Add in non-dairy for extra creaminess and garnish with more sesame oil.  Serve with a bowl of rice and side of kimchi (a MUST).
  4. Wish your loved one a happy health birthday!

*You can get dashima here.
**You can get seaweed for seaweed soup here.

Birthday Soup – It Has Seaweed Because. was last modified: June 4th, 2017 by the.krn.vegan@gmail.com
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Advice from 고모: Heartbreak. Advice from 고모: Heartbreak.
Earlier today, I watched a video of a white man en Earlier today, I watched a video of a white man encourage his 3 year old son to “make fun of his Asian uncle” by pulling the corners of his eyes back into slits.  When confronted by a number of Asians explaining how offensive the video was, he grew defensive, claiming it was “just a little fun.”
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Several years ago, someone asked me what the big deal was about white people making fun of my eyes.  He claimed, “people make fun of my appearance all the time, I guess I’m just not as sensitive as you.” Being bullied for one’s appearance is always wrong and can definitely be traumatic no matter what. But when that appearance is tied to your ethnicity, and when that ethnicity is outnumbered, that kind of bullying can take on a different level of harm. If someone makes fun of my nose, I may spend the rest of my life hating my nose. But if someone makes fun of my eyes—an attribute tied to my Koreanness—then I not only hate my eyes, I also hate my Koreanness.
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Bottom line, I never thought that in 2021, I’d have to explain why making “Asian eyes” to an Asian is offensive, inappropriate, and insensitive.  But apparently, it’s a message that continues to be in demand. In lieu of yelling at people, though, I thought I’d just share a story.
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