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Tasty travel tips for Korea
Tasty travel tips for Korea
- Korean recipes: Yeongyang dolsotbap, nourishing stone pot mixed rice (영양돌솥밥)
- Mar 18,2016
- Many people in Korea often regard a warm bowl of rice as a source of energy. This is well reflected in the saying, "Our power comes from the power of rice.” Among...
- Korean recipes: Bindaetteok savory pancake (빈대떡)
- Mar 11,2016
- Bindaetteok is a savory pancake and a popular item on many menus. People enjoy the dish not only in the winter but also at banquets, such as weddings or hoegap 60th birth...
- Korean recipes: janggukbap rice in beef soup (장국밥)
- Mar 04,2016
- Across Korean cuisine, there are many dishes that are cooked with rice in a soup or broth.Broadly, these dishes can be called tang ban (탕반, 湯飯) or janggukbap in Korean. M...
- Korean recipes: Ipchun osinban five spring greens (입춘오신반)
- Feb 26,2016
- Ipchun (입춘, 立春) marks the beginning of the first of the 24 solar terms and it falls around Feb. 4. It heralds the beginning of spring and the time to start farming. As th...
- Korean recipes: Ogokbap five grain rice (오곡밥)
- Feb 19,2016
- The Great Full Moon of the First Month, or Jeongwol Daeboreum (정월 대보름), falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month and marks the first full moon after the Lunar New Y...
- Korean recipes: Yakgwa deep-fried honey cookies (약과)
- Feb 08,2016
- Yakgwa are cookies that can also be medicine, and the snack has one of the longest histories in Korean cuisine. The snack originated during the era of Korea's three ...
- Korean recipes: Tteokguk rice cake soup (떡국)
- Feb 05,2016
- Seollal Lunar New Year’s Day is back. This holiday has more meanings than other days, as we are now one year older. On Seollal, families and relatives get together to per...
- Korean recipes: Goldongban bibimbap (비빔밥)
- Jan 29,2016
- Bibimbap is one of the most popular Korean dishes enjoyed by non-Koreans. Depending on what ingredients you add and how you mix it, you can make your own bibimbap to your...
- Korean recipes: spicy stir-fried small octopus, nakji bokkeum (낙지볶음)
- Jan 22,2016
- What would you feed a weak, sick bull to make it immediately stand up? The answer is small octopuses, or nakji (낙지). Jeong Yak-jeon (정약전, 丁若銓) (1758-1816), a scholar an...
- Korean recipes: Traditional drinks keep you healthy in winter (유자화채, 수정과)
- Jan 15,2016
- In winter, people can easily catch a cold or other illness because cold weather makes our immune systems a bit weaker. To stay healthy and to protect the immune system, p...