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Korean Craft Collective: Festival for South Korean craft brews and food at New Bahru
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Sample Yangnyeom Chicken Burger (left) and Byeolsan Yuja, a sparkling makgeolli, at the Korean Craft Collective festival.
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- Korean Craft Collective, a festival showcasing South Korean craft beverages, food and drinks, will debut at New Bahru School Hall on April 25.
- Odem restaurant offers a special menu including dishes like Yangnyeom Chicken Burger ($16+) and Akami Tuna Gimbap ($18+), exclusive to the event.
- Sool Cellar features unfiltered rice wines like Byeolsan Yuja ($35+) and Jiran Jigyo Fig ($78+), highlighting unique Korean ingredients.
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SINGAPORE – Korean Craft Collective, a festival centred on South Korea’s emerging craft beverage scene, debuts at New Bahru School Hall on April 25.
Organised by Sool Cellar Asia Pacific, a local importer and distributor of South Korean craft brews, the two-day event will feature 25 booths showcasing South Korean craft brewers, fermentation specialists, food and drinks.
Visitors can sample makgeolli and other craft beverages, and tuck into a special menu by modern Korean restaurant and craft makgeolli bar Odem.
At Sool Cellar’s booth, sample and buy rice wines such as Byeolsan Yuja ($35+ for 800ml), a sparkling makgeolli from Yangjudoga Brewery in Yangju City, north of Seoul. Brewed with glutinous rice, water, nuruk (a traditional fermentation starter) and yuja fruit – which is yuzu – it has a light sweetness and refreshing citrus finish.
Byeolsan Yuja, created by Yangjudoga Brewery, will be available for sale at Korean Craft Collective.
PHOTO: SOOL CELLAR ASIA PACIFIC
Another highlight is Jiran Jigyo Fig ($78+ for 500ml), a takju (unfiltered rice wine) by craft brewery Jiran Jigyo, which also runs a fig and chamomile farm beside its brewery. The fruits and herbs grown there are used in its brews. Each bottle of Fig comes with three to four whole figs and has notes of cacao, coconut milk and yogurt.
Jiran Jigyo Fig will be available for sale at Korean Craft Collective.
PHOTO: SOOL CELLAR ASIA PACIFIC
Head to Odem’s booth for dishes created specially for the festival, apart from its signature Brioche & Gamtae Seaweed Butter ($16+). Gamtae is seaweed unique to South Korea. It has a grassy taste with a wasabi-like aroma.
Brioche & Gamtae Seaweed Butter will be offered at Odem’s booth at Korean Craft Collective.
PHOTO: ODEM
The Yangnyeom Chicken Burger ($16+) features sweet-spicy fried chicken thigh tucked into an in-house baked brioche bun with housemade pickles and cumin aioli made from scratch.
Yangnyeom Chicken Burger is one of the food items Odem will be selling at the Korean Craft Collective festival.
PHOTO: ODEM
The Yachae Bibimbap ($16+), which is vegan-friendly, comes with mountain fernbrake (a fern native to South Korea), seasoned zucchini, braised tofu, perilla and sesame seaweed.
Other items include the Pulled Pork Gamtae Taco ($14+), filled with pulled pork, gochujang aioli, housemade pickles and rice in a gamtae taco shell, as well as the Akami Tuna Gimbap ($18+), made with marinated lean tuna, yuzu kosho mayonnaise, fried onions and sesame. Kosho is a yuzu-based spice with peppercorns that have a mild numbing taste.
For dessert, try the Dujongku Gelato ($18+), Odem’s deconstructed take on South Korea’s version of the Dubai chocolate. It comes with dark chocolate gelato, pistachio butter, kadayif, cherry marshmallows, macerated cherries and candied walnuts.
Dujongku Gelato is a deconstructed take on South Korea’s version of the Dubai Chocolate.
PHOTO: ODEM
Where: 02-02, New Bahru School Hall, New Bahru, 46 Kim Yam Road
Open: April 25 and 26, noon to 9pm
Admission: Tickets are priced at $10 each for general admission
Info: soolcellar.sg/korean-craft-collective
