A Wunderland Pop-up Book Tasting
inspired by Kimchi Taco Time
Awesome Sauce
Kimchi in a taco? Yes, please.
Mix. Dip. Wrap. Try all six tongue tastes. Make your own signature Awesome Sauce. Spicy or sweet? Mild or bold? Fall in love with vegetables with food ethnographer and author June Jo Lee.
Designed for families and teens. Children under 8 participate with an adult caregiver.
Capacity: Up to 25 participants.
Format: 60-minute guided, hands-on story and food experience
Fee: $500 per pop-up
Kimchi in a taco? Yes, please.
At a Korean table, cooking does not stop in the kitchen. Eating is interactive. Food is mixed, dipped, wrapped, and rolled right at the table. There is no wrong way to eat. Only more delicious ways. You taste. You choose.
We open with a read-aloud of Kimchi Taco Time. Then a flavor adventure. The smell of Christmas. Hot water becoming broth. Chili-spicy versus radish-spicy, which are not the same spicy and your nose knows it. All six tongue tastes, including the one most people can't name.
Make Awesome Sauce
Then everyone mixes. Kewpie mayo meets Korean gochujang, and you take over: spicier or sweeter, milder or bolder, until it tastes like you. Dip a vegetable. Wrap with a vegetable.
Every sauce comes out different, because every eater is different. Your taste is yours. It has a story. And, you are the author of your own delicious.
Art of the Wrap
Ssam means wrap. A leaf, gim (toasted seaweed) or tortilla holds a little rice, tasty bits, and a dab of sauce in one loving mouthful. Making a wrap for someone else is another way of saying, “I care about you.”
Take Home
A Kimchi Taco Time trading card with the recipe. More vegetable love. And instant flavor when you want it.