While South Korea is one of the most developed countries in Asia, the country's culinary influence is much less than that of Japan, which is also a developed country in Asia.

Among Korea's already insufficiently diverse cuisine, "troop hot pot" is relatively new and popular, and was once on the Internet for a few days. So let's talk about a series of questions about the Korean "troops hot pot" today, why a hot pot called such a strange name? Is it really made from leftovers from the U.S. military?

What kind of food is "troop hot pot"? Is it really made from U.S. military leftovers?

First of all, Troop Hot Pot isn't really hot pot, it started out as a bowl of whatever was available or added to whatever was available.

That period of Korea can be said to be devastated, but also in the long period of the U.S. military presence, a lot of waste, a serious lack of industrial production capacity, food production and manufacturing is naturally a major problem, many of the local people are therefore into the hungry.

But people will always find a way, as the old saying goes, "The ship will come to a head when the bridge is naturally straight," well, the South Koreans in that period of time, although they lacked clothing and food, but the U.S. military in South Korea at that time, and the U.S. military not only have food, and even quite rich, quite wasteful.

The U.S. was a strong country at the time, and the U.S. troops in Korea were well supplied with cookies, ham, ice cream, and so on. The supply of food was so abundant that it would inevitably lead to some waste, plus the scrapping system of some expired food, so that the U.S. army often had a large amount of food to throw away at that time.

So it is inevitable that there will not be able to resist the hunger of the people to move up the brain, began to use a variety of ways to get those wasted food, which is the source of a variety of ways. In fact, American soldiers who have long been tired of eating lunch meat and bread would be willing to trade some food for things that are only available locally, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, local specialties, certain services and so on.

The locals who have absolutely no means, access, or supplies, but who really don't have anything to eat, may have no choice but to collect food from leftovers. Because these things are not native food, not accustomed to eating, but also inevitably mixed flavors, so simply have what to add what to go in and cook together, anyway, eat down to survive, can resist hunger is true, just because the raw materials of this way of eating mainly from the troops at that time, so there is a "troop hotpot

While the "troop hot pot" was not a delicacy in today's eyes and could not even be considered food, it was a story of its own, just like the "pearl, jade, and white jade soup" in traditional comedy.

For the past had to "eat leftovers" and other things, in fact, do not need to look at it differently

Some friends understand the "troops hot pot", may have "this is not eating slop? "

About the food thing, there is really no need to have to use with "high and low" eyes to see.

Before the very early Beijing area this is called "folding", that is, in the past, people are not rich, lack of food, basically leftovers will not be lost, as long as it is not bad on all! "Folding bar folding bar" poured together braised to eat. In the 1950s there were even small stores specializing in selling this kind of "folding bucket", and they would go to big restaurants to collect some leftovers at a very low price, and then sell them to the poor people who couldn't afford to eat at that time.

And not only were the poor forced to "eat leftovers", but there were also some famous people who liked to do so, and one of the more interesting ones was the 76th Duke of Derivation (the hereditary title of the eldest son of Confucius), Kong Lingyi, who was known as "Jie Cai" (渣菜). In their region, this way of eating leftovers together is called "jia cai" (渣菜).

And not only the poor will be forced to "eat leftovers", there are also some more famous people like this, one of the more interesting may be the 76th generation of the Duke of Derivative Sage (Kong Zi's hereditary title of the first eldest grandson of Kong Zi) Kong Lingyi, in their local way of leftovers into the food called "residual vegetables". In their region, this way of eating leftovers together is called "jia cai" (渣菜).

In fact, there are a lot of food, seasonings, sauces, the initial birth is due to some coincidence , or life forced . For example: bacon was originally created to save meat to eat slowly; sauerkraut, kimchi was initially created to save vegetables to the time of the green or snow; a variety of salted, air-dried seafood seafood products, too, initially, is also the people in order to store food, a better survival of the last resort.

So there is no hierarchy between different food cultures, just different tastes.