Soondubu Jjigae (Spicy Korean Seafood and Tofu Stew)

Soondubu Jjigae is a spicy Korean seafood and tofu stew. My wife (first-generation Korean and Japanese from Hawaii) and I (first-generation Vietnamese from Oakland), equally, love to cook this recipe together in our home kitchen. And in our jazz-like dance in our kitchen, we’ll (debate, laugh, and cry) over which ingredients to use. We don’t agree on everything. But we were able to agree on the following, for an amazing Soondubu stew; fish sauce for shoyu; the addition of lemongrass; Rightrice for white rice