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Korean food

by ant1606

Korean food is simply delicious. Try anything that looks good, considering that in the majority of cases red color suggests it's spicy hot.Here are a few of my favorite....maybe too long to explain in detail!- Rice or noodles:Bokkum-Bap (fried rice)Bibim-Bap (rice & vegetables)Kim-Bap (rice roll)Hemul-Kalkuksu (seafood & noodles)Chachang-Myon (black sauce noodles)Dok-Boki (rice cake & noodles)Mandu (dumplings)- Soups:U-Dong (thunafish broth & noodles)Dwen-Chang (fermented sojbeans)Kalbi-Tang (marinated beef)Kimchi-Chigeh (Kimchi hot pot)Shabu-Shabu (beef & vegetables & noodles)- Meat:Kalbi (marinated ribs)Bul-Gogi (marinated beef)- Seafood:Nak-ji (octopus)He-Mul (namely "seafood")Cham-Chi (thunafish)- Side dishes:Kim-Chi and the likeDu-Bu (tofu)- Drinks:San-Sa-Chun (fruit wine)Bek-Se-Ju ("100 years wine")So-Ju (most popular booze)Makkoli (fermented rice wine)Shik-Hye (rice punch)Me-Shil...

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Korean Traditional Restaurants

by ant1606

To Koreans, food is more than vital intake. For it's a blessing, especially for those who remember the long period of famine that affected most people until and right after the Korean war was over.And, it seems that most Koreans know about the properties of food and ingredients. Some are considered as medicine, most are eaten not only for its flavor but as part of a healthy daily diet.No matter how good a cook is in a household, meals are not as fancy as those served in public places. This is probably the reason why there is an enormous number of restaurants, each specialized in a certain kind of food.Best places are those in the countryside, but if you are in Seoul you may want to abort the idea of going out of town for dinner as time for doing so might be insufficient. Traffic jams and slow pace will make you starve in a car.If you are traveling throughout Korea, it would be a good...

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U-Dong Soup

by ant1606

If you have a taste for fish soup, "Hae-Mul U-Dong" is something worth a try."Hae-Mul" means seafood, being Hae "ocean" and Mul "water".U-Dong is a thunafish ("Cham-Chi") broth in which large wheat noodles swim along with seashells, shrimp, squid, seaweed and vegetables.Restaurants located inside airports are not worldwide recognized for being memorable, neither for their prices nor for the quality of food. But I found the exception! Out of many restaurants I've tried troughout the country, the very best "U-Dong" I could have is right at Incheon airport. Price might be about twice as much as other places, but highly recommended here. One of the rare cases where the real dish looks exactly as its displayed picture. Everytime I visit Korea I simply can't leave without having this delicacy!

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Grilled Beef

by ant1606

Time for beef? Try the local table-grill style restaurants. Sit on the floor and cook your own meal to perfection.Most meat-serving restaurants have tables with a charcoal fed grill and hanging vacuum devices for smoke."Go-Gi" (beef) meat is tender and juicy.Side dishes come endlessly.

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Tea Houses

by ant1606

Tea is an important element of Korean culture. The classic rite of tea is something you might not get at local teahouses, but you can taste a good variety of green teas and herbal teas.In many cases it's not easy to recognize the entrance of teahouses, unless you can read Hangul, the Korean language alphabet, and see something related to "Cha" (tea). You'd better relay to locals and ask for directions.Teahouses are generally quiet and cozy, their dim light interiors mostly decorated with artifacts and tools used in the old days for agricultural tools purposes.In addition to green teas such as Solloc or Hyun-Mi, try Insam (ginseng), Pinetree Needle or Jojoba.General price for a cup is 3,000 to 5,000 Won (ax. 3 to 5 US$).

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Grilled Seashells

by ant1606

Korea is a place for fresh delicacies. Raw seafood is prized and much appreciated by locals, anyway if you like it cooked you may want to try grilled seashells.Choose your favorite from aquariums and trays and have a seat. Grill is in the center of the table and operated by glowing embers brought in by your attendant. Gloves are complimentary, you will put the seashells on the grill until deemed done. Side dishes come by randomly and a pot of seaweed soup is also put on the grill to cook.

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Kim Bap - Local "fast food"

by ant1606

Well, about fast food the Western world knows about. Fat and unhealthy, mostly accompanied by carbonated drinks, it's definitely one of the worst diets one can have.Korean food is generally very healthy and well balanced.Desire for a quick snack is the perfect occasion to taste Kim Bap, literally "seaweed steamed rice", which is wrapped around vegetables, seafood, kimchi, egg and sometimes ham.Get inside some small "fast food" type restaurant, eat there or take away, or buy some at the supermarket for a lunch in your hotel room.

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restaurant at the top floor: Check the seafood/noodle soup in Dongdaemun!

by macaronald

the top floor of the building has 3 restaurants, all with a nice view over the city. you can eat fastfood there, but also seafood, noodles, breakfast and spicey things. it's definitely worth a try, so if you catch up with the "Doota" building, check what's upstairs! seafood soup with kimchi

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Delhi: Indo Food in Geoje-do

by jburron

Well, it was ok here. The upside was the food was good (as it was much-missed by this frequenter of Indo places back home).The downsides were somewhat to do with the company we kept: one couple smoked through the entire meal. Also, though, and typical of Koreans waiting tables in a foreign-food place in Korea (outside of fast food joints) the service was slow, uninspired and forgetful.Once we got the food and as the smoke cleared things got a lot better. Everything is good, albeit a little pricey.

Kimbab (Literally Seaweed Rice): Very Very Healthy and Delicious.

by Hmmmm

Traditionally and still today when one eats more traditional korean food, kimbab becomes much more simply. Kimbab is simply eating Laver with Rice. Koreans simply pick up a piece of dried laver seaweed with their chopsticks, lay it on their rice and with their chopsticks press down on the laver to make a small roll of rice. It takes practise, but its fun. Of course as a cold lunch people often put other ingredients in their kimbab to make it portable, and more for less.Kimbab: a rolled rice with laver seaweed (dried laver) dish is very popular for picnic lunches or as a snack. It is made by wrapping rice and strips of vegetables, and sometimes meat and egg, in a sheet of seaweed and then cutting the roll to make small circles. Today's Kimbab looks like Japanese Sushi, but the similarity stops there. Japanese style Sushi in Korea that is wrapped in Laver is called Chobab.Every Korean has...

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