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this is my chicken noodle soup for the soul it’s takjuk tak meaning chicken and chuuk meaning porridge and it’s my healing food when i was younger i used to get sick quite often and my grandma would always bring a bowl of texture to bed so i could eat and bite the flu away you can take a lot of different variations with juke add whatever vegetables or protein you have in your fridge to put it simply think of chuuk as a blank canvas where flavors can be layered on to serve four people i’m only using a cup of rice you can really stretch your rice to the maximum which is why it was such an important dish historically because it fed the poor not only is chuuk nourishing and cost effective but it’s also ubiquitous it has a lot of different names the english-sized name kanji chok and thai lugao and tagalog are all different names to a very similar dish in the west the same concepts exist in grits oatmeal and in risotto but back to this takjook it was incredibly smooth and glossy from the fat on the chicken overall just a really wholesome meal with simple flavors clean bowl club for this one because