Eating habits of Koreans
There are many traditional Korean foods, the most famous of which are cakes, cold noodles and pickles. To make a cake, glutinous rice is steamed into dough, sliced, sprinkled with bean flour, and diluted honey and sugar are added. Cold noodles are made by adding starch and water to buckwheat noodles, mixing them into noodles, cooling them with cold water after cooking, and then adding sesame oil, pepper, pickles, beef sauce and beef soup. It tastes cool and delicious. Kimchi is made by soaking Chinese cabbage for a few days, washing it, mixing it with pepper and sealing it in a vat. The longer the curing time, the more delicious the taste. Making cakes: one of the traditional foods that Koreans like best. The history of cake making is relatively long, which was recorded in Korean literature in the18th century. At that time, making cakes was called "attracting cakes" and it was called one of the traditional foods. Nowadays, every family will treat friends and relatives with cakes during festivals or weddings. As the name implies, cakes are made. The raw material for making cakes is mainly glutinous rice. Where glutinous rice is not produced, use millet or millet; In addition to adzuki beans, there are soybeans, mung beans, pine nuts, chestnuts, red dates, sesame seeds and so on. It can also be used as a raw material for sprinkling bean noodles. When making, firstly, clean and steam the glutinous rice, put it into a cake beating trough or slate, and break the rice grains together with a cake beating hammer. When eating, cut it into small pieces with a knife dipped in water and eat it with cake noodles. Cold noodles: one of the traditional Korean foods. Koreans not only like to eat cold noodles in hot summer, but also like to sit on the kang and eat cold noodles even in cold winter. Especially from noon on the fourth day of the first lunar month every year, Koreans have the custom of eating cold noodles with the whole family. According to folklore, eating noodles on this day can "live for a hundred years", so cold noodles are also called "longevity noodles". The main raw materials of cold noodles are buckwheat flour, wheat flour and starch, and can also be made of corn flour, sorghum flour, elm bark powder and potato starch. The method is to add starch and water to buckwheat noodles, mix them into noodles, cool them with cold water after cooking, and add sesame oil, pepper, pickles, beef sauce and beef soup to make them cool and delicious. Erming Liquor: It is a Korean custom to drink Erming Liquor. On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, I drank Erming wine on an empty stomach to make my ears alert. This wine is not specially made. The wine I drank on the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month was called "Erming wine". Dog days and dog sauce soup: Dog days are the hottest season of the year. However, Koreans have the custom of killing dogs and eating dog hot soup in dog days. This sauce soup has a special taste, which can be greatly supplemented by eating dog meat sauce soup in dog days. Most Koreans like dog meat. However, eating dog meat is absolutely forbidden during festivals or weddings. This is a custom and courtesy. Cereal rice: Koreans have been eating cereal rice for a long time. On the fifteenth day of the first month, farmers make five-grain rice with glutinous rice, rhubarb rice, millet, sorghum rice and red beans. Also put some in the cow trough to see what kind of food the cows eat first, which means what kind of food can be harvested this year. This custom is still circulating among the people. Rice wine: Koreans' favorite drink. Rice wine is a good product for their guests. If a guest comes to visit, the host will always bring a bowl of rice wine brewed by himself. This wine is a little whiter than yellow rice wine and slightly sweeter. This rice wine is full of stamina. When the elders drink together, they should move their heads to one side and drink. Never raise a glass and drink in front of the elders, otherwise it is disrespectful to the elders. Spicy cabbage: one of the favorite traditional foods of Korean people. Every winter, after the Chinese cabbage comes down, they begin to make spicy cabbage. At this time, no matter in rural areas or towns, every household has to cook it, ranging from hundreds of kilograms to thousands of kilograms, because it will be eaten until the next spring. Spicy cabbage, fragrant and refreshing, has the effects of relieving boredom, relieving alcoholism, helping digestion and stimulating appetite. It is not only a regular dish at home on weekdays, but also a banquet. Therefore, it is very popular and has become an indispensable dish in the daily diet of Koreans. Koreans like to eat rice in their daily diet. They are good at cooking rice. They are very particular about using water and fire. The iron pot for cooking has a deep bottom, a closed mouth, a tight cover and even heating, which can hold your breath. The cooked rice is soft and pure in taste. You can cook double-layer rice or multi-layer rice with different textures in one pot at a time. Various cakes made of rice flour, such as sliced cakes, loose cakes, steamed cakes, baked cakes and cold noodles, are also the daily staple food of the Korean people. The common daily dishes of Koreans are "Bazhen cuisine" and "miso soup". "Bazhen cuisine" is a dish made of eight raw materials: mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, tofu, dried tofu, vermicelli, platycodon grandiflorum, bracken and mushrooms. It is stewed, mixed, fried and fried. The main raw materials of miso soup are Chinese cabbage, autumn cabbage, Daxing cabbage and seaweed. Use sauce instead of salt and cook it with water. Pickled vegetables are indispensable dishes in daily life. Korean kimchi enjoys a high reputation for its fine craftsmanship. This is a regular dish from winter to the next spring. The taste of kimchi is also a sign of housewife's cooking skills. Most Korean dishes have certain nourishing and medical functions after eating. Such as "Shenqi Bushen Decoction" eaten in spring, "dog broth" eaten in dog days, game meat and game soup eaten in winter. There are many kinds of Korean holiday dishes, and seasonal dishes are prepared. There are many famous Korean dishes, such as fairy stove, nourishing stove (also called tonic soup, dog meat hot pot), cold noodles, cakes, pickles and so on. Also: beef and radish pieces with sauce; Iron pot fillet; Raw fish and other Korean dishes.