Ilji Cheung runs the kitchens behind Mŏkbar, Esther Choi's Korean noodle empire in New York, and stood beside Choi as sous in the Iron Chef finale on Netflix. She has rolled more gimbap than most chefs have rolled anything.
Bobby, by his own admission, had never made gimbap before. Gimbap is unforgiving about that: the rice has to be seasoned and cooled to body temperature, the roll pressed evenly or it unravels on the cut. You cannot improvise your first one against someone who has made ten thousand.
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