The taste characteristic of Korean food is fresh and salty. Typical examples are barbecue, cold noodles, bibimbap, ginseng chicken soup and beef soup.
Barbecue is mainly roast beef or steak. That is, beef or steak is marinated with seasoning, roasted on an iron plate, wrapped with lettuce leaves and sesame leaves, and dipped in Chili sauce or bean paste, which is delicious.
Cold noodles are one of Koreans' favorite foods. There are mainly Pyongyang cold noodles made of buckwheat noodles and Xianxing cold noodles made of potato starch. The eating methods are divided into "cold noodles with water" with soup and "cold noodles with Chili sauce". Meat, vegetables, boiled eggs, etc. Usually put on noodles. The characteristics of cold noodles are smooth, refreshing and delicious.
Bibimbap is to put the cooked white rice in a big bowl made of stone, add vegetables such as meat, eggs and soybean sprouts, and then add appropriate amount of Chili sauce according to personal taste, and stir well before eating. The rice above is soft, and the bottom of the bowl forms a crispy rice crust, which tastes particularly delicious.
The famous soups are ginseng chicken soup and beef soup. Ginseng chicken soup is a kind of chicken, which contains glutinous rice, jujube, ginseng, garlic and so on. Add, stew until it is completely cooked and melted in the mouth, and add spices such as pepper and salt according to taste. It is nutritious and a good tonic. Beef soup, also known as snow thick soup, is a soup made of beef bones and beef breast with seasoning, which is delicious. In addition, there are hangover soup, miso soup and so on.
The favorite wine of Koreans is shochu, which has an alcohol content of only about 25% and belongs to low-alcohol liquor. Although the degree is not high, it is easy to get drunk. There are many beers in Korea, but most of them taste different from those in China.