North Korea's diet is mainly light, and both white rice and rice mixed with other miscellaneous grains are the staple foods of North Koreans. Non-staple food is soup and kimchi, which is a unique food. This is a spicy dish made of celery, cabbage, radish or cucumber with salt, garlic, onion, ginger, red pepper and crustacean seafood. Pickled pickles are eaten with all kinds of fresh vegetables all year round. Soups include vegetable soup, fish soup and miso soup. In addition, almost every meal has cold dishes, pickles or buckwheat cold noodles.

Characteristic food

salted vegetables

Kimchi is Korean's favorite table food. Most of them are made of platycodon grandiflorum, bracken, Chinese cabbage, radish, cucumber and celery. After washing, they are cut into pieces, chunks and shreds, eaten with bittern, and then mixed with sesame, garlic, shredded ginger, Chili noodles and other condiments. They are crisp and refreshing, salty and delicious.

pickled vegetables

Kimchi, also known as spicy cabbage, is called "Kimchi" in Korean, which is the most distinctive one in Korean diet. Pickles can be cooked all year round. Choose fresh vegetables, such as cabbage, radish and cucumber, ferment in light salt water, then add spices such as pepper, ginger, white garlic and rapeseed, and you can eat them in a few days.

Dagao

The cake is made by cooking glutinous rice. When eating, cut it into pieces and dip it in soybean powder, sugar or honey. It tastes very strong and delicious. Therefore, Koreans have always regarded making cakes as a first-class delicacy, and they always make cakes every New Year or wedding and when receiving distinguished guests.

Mafen

Korean muffins are like jiaozi in China. The method of making muffins is to roll the mixed rice flour upside down into small pieces, then wrap the red bean stuffing mixed with sesame, jujube and sugar in it, and then steam it on pine leaves.

cold noodles with sauce

People in Chaoxian like to eat cold noodles. The main ingredients of cold noodles are white flour, buckwheat flour and starch. When making cold noodles, the mixed noodles are first pressed into a pot with a special machine, cooked, taken out and cooled with cold water. Add beef soup or chicken soup, and serve with pickles, peppers, beef slices, chicken balls, apple slices, eggs and other seasonings. Koreans are used to eating cold noodles at noon on the fourth day of the first month. It is said that eating long cold noodles on this day will lead to longevity. Now they like to eat them all year round.