Table Talks are an informal culinary salon hosted by The Depanneur. Every month we invite a local food personality to talk about something that interests them while Dep founder Len Senater cooks dinner.

Sang Kim is an award-winning writer, chef, restaurateur, speaker, educator, and animating force behind some of the most iconic modern Asian restaurants in Toronto. Tonight Sang explores the relationship between food, memory, writing, and how you can never go back home again.

His TV show, Searching With Chef Sang: Season 1 & 2 are available for viewing on TLN TV and streamed on Viva TV.  In Season 3, he will be exploring Korea and learning from some of the contemporary kimchi-making icons throughout the country. His third and fourth books, Eating Dogs, a collection of short stories, and A Village Called Love, a memoir, will be released soon. @chefsangkim

Dinner by Len Senater
Tonight's dinner looks at where Sang's Korean heritage and the intimate world of comfort food meet. 

Miyeok Guk (Beef Seaweed Soup)
This humble, comforting soup is made with miyeok (aka wakame), a species of kelp native to the cold, temperate coasts of the northwest Pacific Ocean. This recipe evokes memories of Sang's grandmother's home cooking. 

Kimchi Fried Rice
Spicy fried rice, topped with a runny egg, is one of my go-to comfort foods, and one of the few recipes I contributed to the award-winning Depanneur Cookbook. (All my recipes were made out of leftovers of other dishes cooked at The Dep, since that makes up a large part of my diet!). You can check out the recipe here.

Mochi
A selection of these soft, bouncy rice cakes with variety of fillings like red bean, peanut, and black sesame, served bori-cha, a traditional Korean barley tea.

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Len Senater is the founder and proprietor of The Depanneur, who happily cooks for his friends and neighbours. @TheDepanneur