Meat jun

Meat jun

Meat jun
Type	Jeon, fritter
Course	Entree
Place of origin	Korea
Associated cuisine	Korean cuisine
Main ingredients	Beef
Similar dishes	Jeon
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Meat jun is a Korean fusion dish consumed in Hawaii, United States. It is also called "beef jun" outside of Hawaii. The dish is a variant of jeon (Korean pan-fried dishes) and descends from sogogi-jeon (소고기전). It consists of thinly sliced marinated beef dipped in an egg batter that is then pan-fried, or deep-fried, and typically served with rice, macaroni salad and banchan, like how many other plate lunches in Hawaii are served.¹ Unlike typical beef jeon, in meat jun the beef is marinated. Meat jun is served as an everyday dish.²

Meat jun is a simple dish composed of marinated meat, eggs, and flour. While jeon can be made with many other ingredients, this Hawaiian take on soegogi-jeon is typically made with thinly sliced beef that is marinated in a sweet soy sauce (shoyu) and will usually come with a simple dipping sauce that is either soy- or gochujang- based which is mixed with rice wine vinegar, sesame oil and red pepper flakes or chili oil, which is typically optional.³