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The characteristics of Korean food For centries, the Koreans have eaten the the products of the sea, the field, and the moutain because of the features of Korean peninsula and a distinguish climate makes Korean food more abundant. Korean foods are very special, exotic, and particular. The most distingushing feature of the Korean food is the spiceness. The basic seasonings-red pepper, green onion, soysauce, bean paste, garlic, ginger, sesame, mustard, vinegar, wine have been combined in various ways to enhance Korean foods. Korean food has various side dish. Favorite side dishes are beantaste soup, broiled beef, fish, cabbage "kimchi", and steamed vegetables. "the full course Korean meal "is called "Hanjoungshik". It is composed of grilled fish, steamed short ribs, and other meat and vegetable dishes with steamed rice, soup, and "kimchi". "Kimchi" is the best known Korean food. It is vegetable dish, highly seasoned with pepper, garlic, etc. It is served with every kinds of Korean meals and it stimulates the appetite like pickles. Large quantities of "kimchi" are usually made in late fall or early winter for the winter. the making at this time is called "kimchang". "kimchi" contains amounts of good nutritions such as vitamin C, and fiber. Soups, "guk" and "cchigue" in Korean vary in taste and potency. Through the history, the soup culture was developed because of the famine or cold weather. When our ancestors were short of food, they made soup with small amount of vegetables and beef bones . Also the hot soup could play a role in protecting the cold . "maeuntang" is spicy, hot seafood soup that includes white fish, vegetables, soybean curd, red pepper powder. "twoenjang-guk" is a fermented soybean paste soup with baby clams in its broth. For the soups, there are other kinds of soups such as "miyok-guk", "kimchi-cchigue". Vegetable dish is also popular in Korea. We, Korean traditionally eat more vegetables with rice in main meal than meats and the vegetable dishes are various in kinds and tastes. Korean call dishes made with only vegetables "namool".There are two kinds of which are "saengche" , cold and raw "namool" and "saengche" , warm and steamed "namool". Korean Restaurants in Google Earth
Click the map to download the KML file for the Korean Restaurants in San Diego
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