While most versions of bibimbap are topped with a softly cooked chicken egg, this one has fish eggs in the form of myeongnan-jeot – Korean salted pollack roe – better known by its Japanese ...

The “tofu with ‘tarako’ (salted cod roe)” is a dish she came up with soon after opening the restaurant for a regular who came for dinner as well as lunch. The idea was to make “something ...

The roe, in fact, was difficult to handle, the eggs breaking easily, and so it was salted and pressed into “cakes” called payusnaya in Russian. This was a humble food eaten by peasants.