When it comes to eating, no country can compare with China, so China people always feel that they have nothing to eat when they go abroad. Although South Korea is a close neighbor, there are still differences after all. Many people even say that eating in South Korea is like entering a temple. The implication is that there is a lack of oil and water. Indeed, the diet in Korea is mainly light.
Everyone knows that kimchi in Korea is very famous. This kimchi is the first food in Korea. It is nutritious, delicious and beautiful. It is an indispensable dish for Koreans. In addition to kimchi, Koreans can't live without hot sauce, which is found in kimchi, barbecue, noodles and seafood. Lettuce and cucumber dipped in hot sauce is a dish. It can be said that one of the characteristics of Korean food is spicy. This kind of spicy food is different from that in China. The spicy food in China is fragrant, salty and spicy, while the Korean food is sweet and dry. I don't feel it when I eat it, and it makes people gasp when I swallow it.
there is a Korean snack, which is similar to China's New Year's cake. It is cylindrical and long, cut into small pieces, mixed with red hot sauce in a frying pan, and fried until cooked. This snack is available in many restaurants.
Pancakes are also a well-known food in Korea, but they are thicker than those in China. They often contain shredded squid and other things, and most of them are palm-sized, so they are easy to roll. There is also a kind of pancake made of potato flour, which should be dipped in seasoning and tastes good. Similar to China's meals, there are jiaozi (Korean called steamed bread, hand steamed bread), mostly fried dumplings, steamed dumplings, steamed bread, but all with sweet stuffing, like thick-skinned bean buns.
I'm sure I've heard of Korean cold noodles. In the chilled sweet and sour soup, there is a thin noodle with two boiled eggs and two pears or radishes lying on it, which is very delicious. Cold noodles are mainly Pyongyang cold noodles made of buckwheat noodles and Xianxing cold noodles made of potatoes. The eating methods can also be divided into two kinds: soup and Chili sauce, and the taste is very smooth.
Koreans usually eat barbecue when they invite guests to dinner, that is, beef or steak is marinated with seasoning and cooked on an iron plate. Garlic, hot sauce, lettuce leaves, and pickles are naturally indispensable. For the advanced ones, there are a few more seafood, and the meat is wrapped in lettuce leaves, which tastes very good. There is also a hot pot, similar to Japanese hot pot, which is actually a frying pan. Put slices of meat, onions, Flammulina velutipes, etc. in a pan, add soy sauce, fry them and dip them in seasoning. It tastes a little sweet, but it's a little greasy if you eat too much. Koreans don't like greasy, so when the meat in the pot oozes oil, they suck it with paper towels.
bibimbap is also a representative food in Korea, that is, white rice is put in a big bowl made of stone, which is hot, and meat, eggs, bean sprouts and other dishes are added, and then mixed with Chili sauce. The taste is not very good, but it is crispy and fragrant.
Koreans pay great attention to nourishing and believe in traditional Chinese medicine (Korean medicine). Ginseng chicken soup is generally eaten in dog days. Ginseng chicken soup is stewed with chicken and glutinous rice, ginseng, jujube, etc. It is taken in dog days because Koreans believe that nourishing food such as ginseng will make people's body heat evaporate, and eating it in dog days can avoid heatstroke.
Speaking of soup, there is beef soup boiled with beef bones, which is delicious.
It is said that Korean restaurants are influenced by the lifestyle of ancient palaces, paying more attention to form and tableware. What impressed people most were stainless steel chopsticks and a small bowl with a lid. Chopsticks are shorter than China's wooden chopsticks. They are heavy in your hand and engraved with exquisite patterns of various colors. It hurts when you accidentally fall down while eating.
Maybe it's because there are so many pickles, so there are various containers for kimchi, such as square, round, multi-layer, single-layer, plastic, ceramic ... The most surprising thing is that they often use a pair of scissors when eating. This pair of scissors cuts long noodles when eating cold noodles, pickles when eating kimchi, and barbecues when eating barbecue. In short, it is a very important role in dining.
In Korean restaurants, people usually take off their shoes and eat cross-legged on the kang. The rooms are small and the tables are short. If there are many people for a banquet, the walls of these small rooms can be pulled up like shutters, and the space required can be changed and adjusted at any time, which is very convenient. Guests usually sit on both sides of a square table, and the table can be spelled as long as the room is long, which reminds people of the scene of kindergarten children sitting in rows and sharing fruits.
Chinese food in Korea: sweet and sour pork and Zhajiang Noodles are more popular with Koreans, but Koreans generally think that Zhajiang Noodles was invented by Koreans.
Korean wine culture: When drinking with Koreans, you can't pour your own wine. According to the Korean saying, if you pour your own wine, the person sitting opposite will have bad luck for three years. In Korea, you can't drink in front of the elderly. When you drink in front of the elderly, you should turn your back and drink it.