YouTube sensation Maangchi

Korean fried chicken at a food festival, smelling deliciously after an amazing Korean barbecue session, and kimchi on your hamburger. Korean food is hot. And as soon as we think of this cuisine, we think of YouTube sensation Maangchi.

Her channel is the first place we look when we want to know how to make kimchi ourselves. But it is also full of videos featuring lesser-known dishes such as spicy octopus or seaweed chips. Always dressed in the brightest colors, she uses crazy captions and smileys. As far as we’re concerned, she’s the cutest YouTube star around right now.

Fascinated
If you search a little further, you’ll also find a half-hour video in which she makes her own soybean paste (doenjang). It doesn’t matter that we’ll never make this ourselves. We watch, fascinated, as she does it over the course of a year, using the most bizarre methods.

Cookbook
Maangchi’s talent hasn’t gone unnoticed; she’s been making videos for ten years now. She also has a popular website, and if you don’t want to sit behind your computer, she has a wonderful cookbook featuring all her classics. And above all, don’t forget to follow her on Instagram.