My husband and I are staying up way too late and watching YouTube videos of Korean street food. (Wild Saturday night). And randomly it showed a clip of someone making a fancy fish dish in a culinary school setting.
We are trying to identify the black kind of crumbly looking ingredient they use to garnish the fish?
Theres red and green pepper and chiffonaded egg white and egg yolk.
The section of the video says ‘5 colour tilefish’ in one spot and ‘old dynasty fish’ in another but googling those phrases doesn’t get me any answers for what it is? Some kind of seaweed was my first thought but I’m not sure why that would be pan fried?
Anyway I was hoping someone with more knowledge of Korean food could maybe help identify it? Not for any reason beyond we’re curious.
by JustNargus
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김자반 kimjaban
It’s Five colors go- myung.
O bang saek is
The five traditional colors of Korea symbolize the five directions.
And black is seog-i mushroom.
“So as not to be as brilliant as five-colored flowers
Centered around yellow, blue in the east, white in the west,
The south symbolizes red and the north symbolizes black.
Steamed croaker topped with five cardinal colors.”