Authentic Korean cuisine is a healthy cuisine with less oil, no MSG, nutritious and rich varieties. From a scientific nutritional point of view, the human body needs more than 5 kinds of vegetables and fruits of different colors every day. Korean food is known as the "five flavors and five colors": sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty; red, white, black, green, and yellow. It combines the dietary characteristics of rich Chinese meat and meat and juicy and fresh fish of Japanese cuisine. Generally, there are home-cooked dishes and banquet dishes, each with its own flavor. Spicy and fresh, with plenty of ingredients.
When it comes to Korean cuisine, what people immediately think of is its barbecue. Strictly speaking, Korean barbecue should be regarded as a kind of "fried meat". It uses an induction cooker or a thick iron pot. The waiter first brushes a thin layer of oil on it, and then puts the steak, beef tongue, beef loin and Seafood, sashimi, etc. are grilled on top.
The various side dishes in Korean cuisine are also very special. They are spicy, slightly sour and not very salty, such as kimchi, pickled cucumbers, spicy platycodon, pickled green peppers and perilla leaves... served with meat. Mainly barbecue, meat and vegetables are mixed together and complement each other.
Korean cuisine has three simple things: simple recipes, simple structure, and simple preparation methods. First, let’s talk about the simplicity of the recipe. In Korean restaurants, there are no recipes and they are written directly on the wall. Or if there are recipes, they are simple on one page, with only four or five types, so you can see them clearly at a glance. Ordering is easy, you don't have to say anything after you sit down, the waiter puts all kinds of side dishes on the table first, and everyone orders a soup at the end. You don't have to worry about the staple food, rice comes with it. The soup and rice are served together. You eat yours and I eat mine independently, and the side dishes are shared. According to statistics, the average time it takes Koreans to eat a meal (based on lunch) is 15 minutes.
The simple structure mainly refers to the structure of Korean cuisine. The meals that people usually eat are nothing more than these three combinations: soup + rice + several dishes of kimchi, none of which can be missing. Even high-end Korean cuisine has only infinitely increased the types of kimchi.