[BRIEF NOTE] The Joys of Chun Byung

[rfmcdonald]

Apart from the wonderful walnut cake, another Korean pastry that you can buy at Hodo Kwaja (Walnut Cake) (656 Bloor Street West) is chun byung. At least that's what it's called on the box; a quick Google search reveals no such foodstuff by that name, only the names of a random assortment of South Korean pilots, scientists, and athletes. Chun byung is a thin hard pastry, made of"flour, egg, milk, sugar, butter, baking soda." Hodo Kwaja's chun byung is flavoured with either peanut butter or seaweed, chunks of peanut and green seaweed embedded in the brown pastry. The peanut butter's the more conventional flavour, but the seaweed is another order of saltiness altogether. If you've a peanut allergy, I mourn that you'll never have a chance to try this.