Jamie Chung: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me (‘I Can Change a Diaper In Under 5 Seconds’)
usmagazine.comSecret chef! Jamie Chung opened up to Us Weekly about what fans might not know about her — and the Reunion star has some serious cooking skills.The actress, 39, revealed that she loves to cook Korean hot pot at home. “You need to start with the base — it’s with the miso base,” she exclusively told Us. “You add a little Korean red chili flakes and then you cook all the vegetables and then you throw in Odon noodles.
Then — the very last minute you can — do strips of meat or you can do your shrimp. As it’s boiling, you can serve it right in the middle of the table.
Everyone has their own little bowl.”She likes to embrace her roots in the kitchen and on screen. Chung, who is married to Bryan Greenberg, said that her favorite role ever was on HBO’s Emmy-nominated series Lovecraft Country as Ji-Ah.“I was so terrified of speaking Korean, and it’s an identity that I always fought when I was much younger, you know, because I wanted to assimilate and be like everyone else,” the San Francisco native explained. “I’m particularly proud of that role because I really got to do everything.
I got to get over a lot of my fears, which is speaking Korean in a role, singing in a role, dancing in a role — I really had to do it all.
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