Korean traditional food: Korean food is characterized by kimchi culture, and kimchi is inseparable from three meals a day.

The traditional Korean dishes of barbecued pork, kimchi and cold noodles have become world-famous dishes.

Korea has a variety of foods. Since it was an agricultural society in the past, rice has been the main staple food since ancient times.

Korean diet is composed of various vegetables, meat, and fish.

Various fermented preserved foods such as kimchi (fermented spicy cabbage), hoisinjang (salted seafood), and beanjang (fermented soybeans) are famous for their nutritional value and special taste.

1. Kimchi: Kimchi, one of the representative foods of Korea, is an essential fermented food on the Korean table.

In today's world where people are paying attention to dietary health, kimchi has become a popular diet not only in Korea but also in many other countries.

The most well-known kimchi is spicy cabbage made with red pepper, but there are actually dozens of types of kimchi.

There are also many dishes including kimchi soup, kimchi pancakes, and kimchi fried rice made with kimchi.

2. Bibimbap: Bibimbap is listed as a representative Korean diet together with kimchi. As the highest traditional Korean diet, it is white rice mixed with fried meat, various green vegetables, and mixed with chili sauce or seasonings.

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Not only is it delicious and beneficial to health, but it is also easy to make and convenient to eat, making it the best meal on the plane.

There are many famous snack bars in Jeonju, the hometown of Bibimbap, and there are also many famous Bibimbap restaurants in Seoul.

3. Palace food (high-end Korean set meal-Korean set meal): Palace food is a Korean food culture that combines health and deliciousness, and is made by first-class chefs after decades of repeated research on secrets.

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Palace food was introduced to the nobles during palace banquets, and the nobles passed it on to ordinary people, which had a great impact on Korean food culture.

By tasting palace cuisine, which is high-end Korean cuisine, you can experience most of Korean traditional food culture. If you have a little money, it is recommended to try it.

4. Spare ribs: Among the meat dishes that are loved by Koreans - barbecue, pork belly, and spareribs, spareribs are the most advanced cuisine.

It is a piece of beef or pork that is about 1cm long and about 1cm apart on both sides. It is topped with green onions, garlic, sesame oil and miso, and grilled under medium-strong fire. It is crispy and delicious.

Because it is relatively expensive and troublesome to make, it is usually only eaten at home on birthdays or special holidays, and mostly eaten in restaurants outside.

5. Barbecue: Barbecue is a dish made by soaking beef or pork in a seasoning made of miso, honey (or sugar), green onions, garlic, sesame seeds, salt, pepper, etc. and then grilling it.

Delicious and sweet, it is one of the most favorite Korean representative meat dishes for children.

It's easy to make at home and is a popular family meal.

6. Pork belly: Pork belly refers to the meat from the belly of the pig where the meat and fat parts overlap three times.

As South Korea has the largest pork belly consumption in the world, the consumption of pork belly has reached the point where domestic supply exceeds demand and requires large quantities of imported pork belly from overseas.

Pork belly is raw meat grilled on an iron plate until crispy and then eaten wrapped in lettuce. It is the most common type of Korean meat dish.

Especially when boys get together with friends, it’s delicious with soju.

7. Samgyetang: Samgyetang is a healthy summer diet made by washing a chicken, cutting open its belly, adding ginseng, jujubes, sticky rice, etc., seasoning with an appropriate amount of salt, and boiling it in water.

Koreans have a tradition of eating ginseng chicken soup to replenish their physical strength during the hot summer when they are sweating profusely and their bodies are weak, and during the first, middle and last days of July to August.

So on special days like this, the ginseng chicken soup shop is always packed.

8. Cold noodles: Cold noodles are noodles made by adding a small amount of green powder into wheat flour. Thin-skinned meat, cucumbers, pears and other vegetables and eggs are placed as a foil. The beef soup that has been cooked for a long time is cooled and poured over it.

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In addition to the cold water noodles introduced above, there are also representative mildly spicy noodles made with chili sauce and various ingredients.

Adding sole and clams to the noodles makes for cold noodles. If you replace the cold noodles with radish and kimchi soup, it becomes cold noodles with radish and kimchi.

In the past, people ate more cold noodles in winter, but now they mainly eat them in summer.

9. Seafood cuisine? South Korea is surrounded by sea on three sides and has abundant seafood cuisine.

Among them, the most popular among Koreans are seafood scallion pancakes made with green onions, vegetables, seafood, etc., mixed with flour, eggs, and oil on a pan, and fresh fish cut into thin slices and eaten directly.

It is also famous for its spicy fish soup made from cooked water chestnuts.

Seafood scallion pancakes are very popular as a snack for children and as a side dish for adults. Dongdong wine and seafood scallion pancakes are a perfect match.

10. Rice cake: Rice cake is a snack commonly eaten by Koreans similar to Western pastries.

It is made with rice as the main raw material, and various kinds of cereals, chestnuts, jujubes or fruits, mugwort, pumpkin and other materials can also be added to make a variety of cakes.

The sweet and delicious rice cakes made from various materials have different tastes. It is fun and enjoyable to choose from more than 100 varieties.

Rice cakes were an indispensable food in past banquets, birthdays, sacrifices, etc.

Recently, there are also some rice cake shops such as bakeries, which can be purchased in small supermarkets.

Entering a rice cake specialty store, you will find beautiful rice cakes everywhere that you would rather not eat, which can be enjoyed with traditional drinks.

If you travel to Korea, you might as well try this delicious Korean traditional snack.