Hoteok

Here is another what-went-wrong cooking story.

Last week, my husband had this idea that he can make this simple street food. Or so he thought. ;) Where did he go wrong? Since I'm in no position to be sure, here is my guess. First, he got the amount of sugar for the dough mixed up and ended up with a very sweet dough. Then he just went on to pour all the liquid (yeast mixture) to the flour. It made the dough quite soggy or sticky. To make it worse, we ran out of flour and it never occured to him that the dough might still need some more flour. When the dough looks ready, off to the frying pan. Now here's the last straw, since the dough was a bit sticky, it was hard to put in the filling inside and fry it flattened. We ended up not putting any filling in most of the hoteok. Well, we were able to eat all of it but it would have been better if there has been some filling.

Now, I am still open to trying to make it myself, if only I can find the right ratio for the yeast, flour, water and sugar. Oops! I forgot to mention that we almost fought because of the measurements. The recipe that he got used grams and I had such a hard time consolidating that to teaspoons and cups that I usually use. Talk about heading for disaster in the kitchen.