To be honest, there are actually quite a few decent dishes in Korea.
If we were to film "A Bite of Korea", there would be many who would make the list.
Army pot, seafood pot, snow soup, ginseng chicken soup, Jeonju bibimbap, Korean cold noodles, spicy rice cakes, BBQ, etc. Korean food culture prefers light food and avoids greasy food. Generally, it likes spicy and sweet food because of its geographical location.
The reason is that sauce is also an indispensable accompaniment and even a staple food for them.
Below, we will select a few representative foods to introduce you to Korean food.
Staple food: Cold noodles - Korean cold noodles, which are divided into Pyongyang-style cold noodles, that is, cold soup noodles, and Hamhung cold noodles, that is, cold noodles.
Pyongyang cold noodles use buckwheat noodles with beef bone broth and are served with kimchi, eggs, beef slices, pears, etc.
Hamhung cold noodles are potato and sweet potato noodles mixed with seafood stew and chili sauce.
Both taste refreshing and appetizing, while the spicy taste relieves the heat.
Jeonju Bibimbap, a Korean cold noodle dish, features soybean sprouts and seasonal vegetables. It is also called soybean sprouts bibimbap.
Jeonju Bibimbap has a variety of auxiliary ingredients, you can mix it according to your own preferences, and the taste is refreshing and appetizing.
Jeonju Bibimbap Spicy Tteokbokki is a mainstream late-night snack in Korea. It is fried with rice cake strips and has a rich, sweet and spicy taste. The rice cake is soft and delicious. Adding fish cakes or sweet and spicy dishes makes it even more addictive.
Spicy rice cake soup pot: ginseng chicken soup, chicken belly is stuffed with glutinous rice, chestnuts, red dates, wolfberry, Korean ginseng, etc. and stewed.
After the finished product, the chicken soup is refreshing, delicious and rich in medicinal aroma, and the chicken is stewed until the bones and flesh are separated by a pinch.
The glutinous rice inside the chicken belly has absorbed all the essence and nutrients in the soup, making it extremely delicious.
In addition, ginseng chicken soup can nourish people with weak physical strength, replenish blood, replenish qi, nourish the skin, calm the mind, and has extraordinary nutritional value.
Samgyetang Army Hotpot originated from the Korean War. The ingredients are extremely complicated. Common ingredients include kimchi, ham, cheese, instant noodles, bacon, mushrooms, fish cakes, etc. Although the ingredients are ordinary, it has its own flavor.
Army hotpot seafood hotpot, stir-fried pork belly with kimchi, simmered with squid, tofu, and fresh shrimps. It tastes salty, sour and spicy, and is served with a big bowl of rice. It’s really delicious~ Seafood hotpot actually has many good foods in Korea, but I haven’t mentioned it yet.
If you remove the kimchi, it’s still kimchi.
I won’t introduce them one by one here, because there are still many delicious foods waiting for us to discover.
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