Birthday Bulgogi Table
Kids and adults both eat it. Serve noodles alongside and the table fills out.
Guests or family gathering · 6 adults · 6 total
Every recipe here has been cooked and corrected by hand. But the way these three are grouped into one table, and the portion split, are still a draft the chef hasn't signed off on. If an amount feels too big or too small, trust that instinct.
Here's the table
from 4 servings → 6 servings
from 4 servings → 5 servings
from 4 servings → 3 servings
from 1 cake → 1 cake
from 6 pieces → 4 pieces
Shopping list
Ingredients shared across dishes are combined, so you don't grab scallions three times at the store.
- Minced garlicin 2 dishes2 oz(57 g)
- Eggsin 2 dishes3.7 oz(105 g)
- Green onionin 2 dishes6.7 oz(190 g)
- Unsalted butterin 2 dishes2.1 oz(60 g)
- Cake flourin 2 dishes5.8 oz(165 g)
- Milkin 2 dishes6.7 oz(190 g)
- Dried sea mustard (miyeok)1.1 oz(31 g)
- Roasted sweet potato10.6 oz(300 g)
- Honey4 g
- Dark compound coating chocolate1.9 oz(54 g)
- Egg yolks2
- Carrot2.6 oz(75 g)
- Dried anchovies23 g
- Vanilla extract9 g
- Pear juice¾ cup(180 ml)
- Baking powder1.5 g
- Heavy cream10.9 oz(310 g)
- Beef for bulgogi2.3 lb(1.1 kg)
- Beef brisket8.8 oz(250 g)
- Somyeon noodles9.5 oz(270 g)
- Korean zucchini5.3 oz(150 g)
- Onion13.2 oz(375 g)
- Whole egg7.8 oz(220 g)
- Cocoa powder6 g
Check your pantry Skip it if you already have it
- Sugarin 3 dishes11.5 oz(325 g)
- Saltin 3 dishes7.5 g
- Guk-ganjang (soup soy sauce)in 2 dishes¼ cup(60 ml)
- Sesame oilin 2 dishes64 ml
- Soy sauce135 ml
- Dashima (kelp)7.5 g
- Corn syrup (mulyeot)20 g
- Starch powder6 g
- Sesame seeds15 g
- Black pepper1.5 g
Prep order
No hours are listed. The recipes don't carry total cook times, and we won't invent them. Just following the order makes the day much easier.
Morning of
- So-bulgogi (Beef Bulgogi)
- Miyeok-guk (Seaweed Soup)
- Sweet Potato Cake
- Chocolate Madeleines (makes 6)
Just before serving
- Janchi-guksu (Banquet Noodles)Made ahead, this goes soggy or lukewarm