Feb 14
Mushroom Jook
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Mushroom Jook
Folded by DJ Schreach (2025, Jook/SoFlo Jook)
learning about south florida jook. very good. compelled me to post
yesterday I made some of the absolute tastiest congee I've ever made until now
I smashed garlic, sliced ginger, and roughly chopped the white part of scallions
then I sauteed them in the pot with sesame oil, salt, black pepper, and white pepper until they had a lot of color
then I toasted the rice in the pot for a few min, until it was toasty
then I added the water and broth and let it cook for an hour, then thicken for 20 min
add sliced green part of the scallion, soy sauce, vinegar, mirin, med boiled egg/silken tofu on top and it's so SO good
peak sick guy food
(I modified this recipe, btw)
Cannelle - CLOVER (CLOVER - Single, 2024)
Jook
My partner was sick and working from home, so I decided to make a big pot of jook (粥, congee). It took a bit longer than expected so he came down to see how it was going.
"Almost ready," I said. Then suddenly recalled, "A homonym for jook (粥, congee) is jook (捉)," and I made a sort of clasping motion, "which means, like, to kidnap?"
I searched around my brain to try to remember how jook (捉) was used.
"You would jook (捉) a bug," I said, pantomiming, "So maybe, 'catch'? But you wouldn't jook (捉) a ball, I don't think, unless you also stole it, like if you intercepted it from the other team. Hm. You could jook (捉) a child, you could jook (捉) a criminal."
"How about 'grab'?" my partner offered.
"Yeah, maybe. But, you wouldn't jook (捉) your purse on the way out the door..."
"'Capture', or 'seize'?"
"Yeah! But, I don't know if you can jook (捉) an enemy fortification. But you could jook (捉) their troops. Maybe it's a kinda slangy word?"
We tenuously settled on the "kidnap" interpretation.
"Well, it's almost ready, so I will jook you soon," I said ambiguously to him.
"Ooh, then we can have a congee-gal visit."
*groan*
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For completeness, here's what Cantodict says about jook (捉):
捉 zuk1 zuk3
[1] grasp; seize hold of; clutch [2] catch; capture; apprehend; arrest
This word is also used for: fishing (to catch fish), to catch someone cheating, and vampire hunters or ghostbusters.
Turkey Congee ("Jook" in Cantonese) The best thing to make with leftover Turkey!
Chicken jook
