Kimchi Evil Eyes

In just over a month I will be leaving Korea. How am I to exist without kimchi - the fermented spicy cabbage dish - that I eat every day? I clearly need some kimchi making skills to keep the H1N1 virus at bay. So on Sunday I headed with Sam to the O'Ngo cookery school to learn how to make the dish that I have become seriously attached to. As a tasty extra, they also taught us how make bulgogi.

Read, steady....COOK! (Please note the demonic eyes)

Hye-jin, our lovely instructor

Kimchi ingredients: brined cabbage, spring onion, chilli powder, garlic ginger and shrimp sauce....

....and radish (MU!)

After stuffing the cabbage with the other ingredients, and throwing half of the ingredients down yourself and on the floor (it's traditional), you bundle it up and...

TA-DAA!

Eating the food along with another student from Japan and her instructor (Again, please not the evil eyes)

Feeling very pleased with myself I couldn't believe at the time that my kimchi had actually given me demonic eyes. Until I went to get a photo taken for a job application today. The lady in the shop snapped my picture, I went home to wait for the email. I opened up the file and this demonic teacher greeted me:

I like to think that my perfect skin is another result of the home-made kimchi, rather than just very liberal use of photoshop. But, just incase my skin really is getting that good, I'm going to go make myself a kimchi smoothie. I'll just have to put up with the demonic eyes.