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Penticton · the Okanagan

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Korean · South Korea

Samgyeopsal

Samgyeopsal (three-layered meat — pork belly) is Korean BBQ at its most primal — thick-cut pork belly grilled directly on a tabletop grill, cut into pieces with scissors at the table, then wrapped in perilla leaf or lettuce with garlic, ssamjang, and kimchi. The simplicity is the point: quality pork belly, live-fire cooking, communal eating. No marinade. The fat renders onto the grill and crisps the edges of each slice.

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Serves4

Total20 min

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How the 4 are reached

Not yet within reach: 4 · soy sauce, mirin, sesame seeds, scallions

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800g

pork belly

skin on, sliced 5mm thick against the grain

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200ml

soy sauce

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100ml

mirin

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50ml

rice vinegar

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3 tbsp

sesame seeds

toasted

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4 cloves

garlic

thinly sliced

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2 tsp

Tellicherry black pepper

freshly cracked

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1 tbsp

sesame oil

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30g

scallions

cut into 3cm batons

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The Method

Combine soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, and sesame oil in small bowl; set dipping sauce aside.

Heat charcoal grill or cast-iron griddle to high heat (until wisps of smoke appear).

Arrange pork belly slices directly on grill; cook without moving 3–4 minutes until fat renders and surface chars.

Flip each slice; cook 2 minutes until cooked through, fat fully rendered.

Transfer to serving platter; immediately sprinkle with cracked pepper, toasted sesame seeds, sliced garlic, and scallion batons.

Serve with dipping sauce, steamed rice, and fresh lettuce leaves for wrapping.

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Sensory Tests

◇Where it lives or dies. The moment where samgyeopsal lives or dies is when the rendered pork fat begins to smoke on the hot grill — this is the moment to stop cooking on that side and flip. The fat should have golden, slightly crisped edges; the meat visible between fat layers should be white and set. Flip once and cook the meat side for 90 seconds. The finished slice should have a rendered, golden fat cap and a moist, just-cooked interior.

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