Korean Strawberry Milk
Korean Strawberry Milk
Ingredients500g strawberries, cut in quarters¼ cup castor sugar1 tbsp lemon juice1L coconut milk, sub with full cream milk
MethodHeat up a 20cm pan on the stove on medium-high heat. To the pan add the strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice.Allow to simmer for 15 minutes until the strawberries soften, stirring constantly to prevent it from burning. The strawberries are ready…
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Smoking Tiger Coffee & Bread, 15545 Whittier Blvd, Whittier, CA 90603
Smoking Tiger is a Korean bakery in a strip mall in Whittier. They serve espresso drinks, signature drinks, Jeju matcha, and Korean drinks like the banana milk latte and Korean honey oat. It looks like they have their own coffee (coffee that is roasted for them or that they roast themselves). They’re known for their Jeju matcha drinks.
Freshly baked offerings include cookies, scones, croissants (Nutella, guava, almond, matcha pistachio), financiers, cream cheese garlic bread, Basque cheesecakes, etc. They invented a cross between a cookie and a scone.
French ham & raclette croissant ($5): Sounded great and it did have thin layers, it was on the softer side though and not as buttery. The ham was a thin slice. It wasn’t too salty. The raclette was placed on top and formed a crispy topping. It needed more butter and it needed to be crispier.
Corn mochi ($2.50): it looks like an ear of corn. The exterior is chewy mochi and the inside is a sweet cream studded with corn kernels. It tastes a bit like creamed corn. The corn kernels were quite dry.
Matcha scone ($4.50): A nice big, thick scone with lots of chocolate chips and a bit of mochi inside. I heated it and the scone was moist and the chocolate chips melty. The matcha flavor was weak though.
Lemon cream bun: Really good - your typical baked bun exterior filled with an ample amount of tangy, creamy, thick lemon cream. The cream wasn't that sweet and neither was the bun.
Fireplace latte with cardamom ($5.75): surprisingly good, not too sweet either
Sesame mochi cake: a thick disc with red beans and nuts, chewy. It seemed baked. I prefer a softer mochi. It wasn’t that sweet.
The shop has free wi-fi and plenty of seating. Coffee beans and coffee accessories for sale. They sell some of their own merch and cold Korean drinks. They have a rewards program. Parking was easy to find.
4 out of 5 stars
By Lolia S.
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6 Must Try Traditional Korean Dessert
1. Songpyeon
Songpyeon is a kind of rice cake fully made with short grain rice cake dough. It is filled with different ingredients such as sweetened sesame seeds, black soybeans, and mung beans. The shape is made by hand and steamed before eating. Korean eat this dessert during the Chuseok to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
2. Yaksik
This is a Korean dessert made of sweet rice. It contains some healthy filling like jujube, chestnuts, and pine nuts. It is seasoned with honey or brown sugar, sesame oil, soy sauce, or cinnamon in some cases. The tradition is to eat it on Jeongwol Daeboreum, a Korean holiday that falls on the 15th of January on the lunar calendar.
3. Bukkumi
Bukkumi is a kind of dumping made of rice stuffed with sweet red bean past and toasted ground sesame seeds. It is pan fried in oil lightly for crispy crush along with a soft a chewy texture. It is usually coated with honey and garnished with shredded chestnuts and jujube. They have it flat or round in shape and some without fillings.
4. Dasik
Dasik is tea cookie made from sesame seed or rice flower. There are many kinds of pattern on the cookies depending on the mould used. A plate of dasik usually consist of green, yellow, pink, black, and white colors. The typical ingredients of the dessert include pine pollen, black sesame, chestnuts, and soybean.
5. Yakgwa
This is one of the most famous traditional Korean dessert. Another name for it is gwajul. This dessert is a deep fried, wheat based made with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice. It is offered in an ancestral rite traditionally. But it’s served during Chuseok, marriages, and can be bought at many places including traditional markets, and supermarkets.
6. Sejeonggwa
This is a Korean traditional cinnamon punch, dark reddish brown in color. It is made with dried persimmons and ginger and usually garnished with pine nuts. Sujeonggwa is served cold and as a dessert instead of a drink. It is somewhat similar to sikhye because of its sweet taste but in a dessert version. It is also widely available anywhere and served in canned form.
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