Food Raiders of Jeju Island, South Korea

The main ingredients of Jeju Island food are marine fish, vegetables and seaweed, which are seasoned with soy sauce. Pork and chicken are used to make porridge and soup. Jeju Island people's industrious, unadorned and simple character can be shown in their diet. For example, they can't see many dishes or add many condiments or cook with a variety of mixed materials, which is characterized by carrying forward the original flavor of various materials.

Jeju Island food tastes a little salty, which may be because the weather is hot, so as to prevent the food from going sour. Jeju Island is warm in winter, so that cabbage can stay in the ground, so it is not necessary to make kimchi buried in the ground for a long time, but it can be made for a short time, but there are fewer kinds of kimchi. The seafood in Jeju Island is very delicious, and you can witness the scene of cooking conch and abalone collected by sea girls on the island. Sashimi, abalone porridge, seafood hot pot, roasted square head fish and so on can be tasted in local restaurants in Seoguipu and Jeju. You can taste light pheasant dishes, as well as Han Yimai wine and Hanna Longevity wine in Jeju Folk Village in Daguan Hunting Ground and restaurants in the towns' folk villages. Pork ribs roasted with charcoal fire are also well-received delicacies.

In addition, Jeju's famous flavor foods include cakes, roasted Cargill fish, Wumei sparkling wine, pheasant buckwheat noodles, crab soup, buckwheat Daoxiao Noodles and so on. In Jeju, there are various restaurants in the hotel, such as western restaurant, Japanese restaurant, Korean traditional restaurant and Jeju local restaurant, which customers can enjoy at will.

The following will introduce various delicacies in detail:

Tangerine in syrup

1. Citrus is a famous product in Jeju. Peel the tangerine, put it in orange juice and white sugar water, and then put a few pine nuts.

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2. Korean glutinous rice cake

Round cake: Jeju Island produces a lot of buckwheat, and radish dishes or red bean paste are put in the mixed buckwheat noodles. Sticky millet cake: Jeju Island produces almost no rice, but many miscellaneous grains. The rice-based rice cakes are only eaten during festivals and sacrifices, and usually only those made by Qiao Mai, millet, barley and sweet potatoes are eaten. Soak sticky millet in water and mash it in a stone mortar to make glutinous rice cake dipped in bean paste.

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3. Steamed small abalone

Small abalone belongs to the same category as mullet, but it is relatively small and lives in sea rocks. When steamed in a pan, water will naturally come out without adding water. Steamed abalone is a kind of diet which is peeled and washed, striped with a knife and steamed with ginger juice, salt, sesame oil and other condiments. It is bitter and light. You can put radishes, carrots, chestnuts, fungus and other seasonings.

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4. Mullet porridge

Mullet is a famous product in Jeju Island, and there is little rice in Jeju Island, so it is very rare. Cut the raw mullet into thin slices, stir-fry it with sesame oil for a while, add the soaked rice and stir-fry, and finally add water to boil it into porridge. Mullet is very effective in restoring the fatigue of optic nerve, and has high iodine content, which is beneficial to patients with hypertension and is also a good health food.

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5. Porridge of red snapper

A large number of red snapper can be caught in Jeju Island in spring and summer. Pagrosomus major is a kind of fish with high protein and low fat, rich in vitamin B1, and less oily and easy to digest, so it is better to take it as the diet of patients in recovery period.

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6. Wumei sparkling wine

refers to a kind of sake brewed from sticky rice cakes. The method is to grind sticky rice into fine powder, add boiling water and stir, then steam it to make sticky rice cake, then make the cake into paste, and add yeast to ferment it to make Wumei sparkling wine. This wine is the most representative local wine in Jeju Island.

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7. Ginseng chicken soup

Koreans have inexplicable love and worship for ginseng, and believe that this precious medicine can cure all diseases. According to experts, Korean ginseng is a cool tonic, which can replenish the vitality lost by sweating, fully eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength. Therefore, it has become a part of Korean life to stuff ginseng into chicken belly and boil it into soup. In South Korea, most of them are served in a casserole, and the cooked glutinous rice in the belly will flow into the soup. The chicken soup, in fact, should be said to be thick porridge soup, which has the fragrance of garlic, red dates, ginseng and chicken. Drinking warm porridge and eating boiled chicken is really delicious. If you go to Jeju Island, you might as well try it.

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8. Sashimi

On Jeju Island surrounded by Zhou Haiyang, fresh and tender sashimi is the best in seafood. It can restore your loss of appetite, which is easy to occur during travel. The raw materials of sashimi in Jeju are Cargill, abalone, conch and crab, among which Cargill is the best.

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9. Raw Sparus macrocephalus

Sparus macrocephalus is a deep-water fish that lives near Jeju Island, and its taste is pure and light. Spread the jade snapper with sesame oil, then put it on charcoal and bake it slightly. When baking, it will be fragrant, and the fish is even more wonderful.

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1. abalone porridge

Abalone has been a tribute to the king since ancient times, with high nutritional value and special effects on restoring liver function. Jeju sea area is rough, which is not suitable for abalone breeding, so the abalone produced here is naturally grown. It has the highest value in shellfish and seafood. A large number of fish can be caught along the coast of Jeju Island, and Chengshanpu abalone porridge is the most famous. About 2, won a bowl.

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11. Jeju Island Black Pork

Black pork is undoubtedly a specialty of Jeju Island, and only in Jeju Island can it be authentic. When people in Jeju Island kill pigs, they smoke and use whole grass to remove pig hair, so their fragrance seeps into the pork and the taste becomes unique. Moreover, because the black pig is naturally stocked on the grass, the fat meat is chewy, the lean meat is gluten-rich, nutritious and tasteless, and the taste is more fragrant than ordinary pork. Black pork is cut into 1cm thick, and it is directly roasted on the wire mesh. When the barbecue is half cooked, the meat is cut into small pieces with sharp scissors. After roasting for a while, it is eaten together with chili, garlic, hot sauce and roasted black pork wrapped in lettuce leaves or perilla leaves. The meat is very delicious and not greasy, because in the roasting process, the excess oil has fallen off with the wire mesh, and at the same time, it is eaten with garlic and onion.

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12. Roasted Sparus Japonicus

Sparus Japonicus is a deep-water fish living near Jeju Island, with pure taste. Spread the jade snapper with sesame oil, then put it on charcoal and bake it slightly. When baking, it will be fragrant, and the fish is even more wonderful. In addition, you can also put it in the sea belt or radish to cook soup, or you can cook the jade snapper first, put it in the bones and cook it together, wait for the separation of the flesh and blood, remove the bones, and finally cook it into porridge, which is also excellent in taste. The per capita consumption is1, won.

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13. Seafood Hotpot

In Jeju Island, there are many kinds of seafood, and the best way to catch them all is to eat them all. When eating, the pot on the fire is full of seafood, including crabs, prawns, Cargill fish and some other seafood from Jeju Island. Accompanied by Korean-style spicy sauce, it is memorable. At the end of eating, you can also put instant noodles in the hot pot and dip them in the seafood soup, which is more delicious. The per capita consumption is18, won.

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14. Horse meat

Jeju Island has many pastures, and Jeju Island is a volcanic rock, although Nowadays, horse meat has become a special food in Jeju, attracting people who travel to Jeju. The horse meat sold in the restaurant is specially bred for eating, and all of them are 2-3 year-old foals. It is said that horse meat contains no cholesterol and has a strong nourishing effect. Its light taste is far better than beef and there is almost no fat. In Jeju Island, there are also various ways to make horse meat, which can be made into sashimi raw, braised in brown sauce, or made into raw mixture and hot pot. In addition, other barbecues and grilled horse chops are delicious, and buckwheat noodle soup cooked with horse bone soup can also be used as a staple food.

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