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Doenjang Jjigae — Paris

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Doenjang jjigae occupies the position a house stock occupies elsewhere: always around, rarely announced, quietly load-bearing.

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The fermented soybean paste gives it a salty, long-finishing flavour, related to miso but rougher and more insistent. Courgette, potato, tofu, onion, and sometimes a little meat or a few clams fill out the pot. It arrives bubbling and is eaten by the spoonful, either straight from the shared pot or from a small bowl of your own. Alternate it with rice and banchan rather than drinking it on its own, because it is deliberately salty. At a grill table it closes the meal rather than opening it.

Doenjang Jjigae

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