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Tasty travel tips for Korea
Tasty travel tips for Korea
- 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...
- Korean recipes: Sweet rice with nuts and jujubes, yaksik (약식)
- Jan 08,2016
- Yaksik cuisine is usually eaten on the Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. It's made with healthy ingredients, such as chestnuts, jujubes, pi...
- Korean recipes: patjuk red bean porridge (팥죽)
- Dec 23,2015
- A staffer at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin-si City, Gyeoggi-do Province, offers patjuk, or rice and red bean porridge, to visitors to mark Dongji, the winter solsti...
- Korean recipes: Seafood green onion pancake (해물파전)
- Dec 07,2015
- Seafood and green onion savory pancakes, or haemul pajeon, are thin savory cakes made from lots of green onions and bits of seafood. Characterized by its fresh ...
- Korean recipes: Bossam kimchi (보쌈김치)
- Nov 30,2015
- Kimchi is well known as the iconic food of Korea. Koreans have enjoyed vegetable-based diets for many centuries. To reflect such a food culture, people here have used va...
- Korean recipes: Japchae stir-fried noodles (잡채)
- Nov 13,2015
- Japchae is one of the most popular menu items on the Korean table. It's made from potato starch noodles stir-fried with mixed vegetables and seasoned with soy sauce and o...
- Korean recipes: Ox bone soup, Seolleongtang (설렁탕)
- Nov 06,2015
- Ox bone soup, or seolleongtang, is a thick beef soup made using almost all the parts of an ox, from its head, bones and meat through to its intestines, and which is then ...
- Korean recipes: oyster tofu soup (굴두부찌개)
- Oct 30,2015
- Dubbed the 'milk of the sea,' oysters are just as nutritious as milk. It is in the fall, especially between September and December, that oysters are in-season across t...
- Korean cuisine ideal for healthy eaters worldwide
- Oct 02,2015
- 'Korean food is good for your health, and knowledge of this is spreading around the globe," says Director Yoon Sook-ja of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food. Dire...