Summer Meals

This is a wonderful time when we do not need to do anything. However, there are times where we do not like summer because of rising temperatures. To cope with the heat, usually in America eat ice cubes, ice cream, and other things with which certainly related to the ice. For the Koreans seemed different, but they usually eat ice food hot or spicy, author himself did not understand the reason why, maybe because it can cause perspiration, so the heat will be reduced.

PATBINGSOO

Patbingsoo is the first Korean dessert in history. It is bassically a bowl of shaved and fill in the various items, which are usually sweet red bean or azukibean, bits of mochi, and fruit. Many stores also serve with ice cream and also in different flavors. Different flavors can be as green tea, coffee, fruit.

KALGOOKSOO

This is a delicious noodle dish that is historically known for its cut by hand. However, with more advanced technology, people can buy that has been cut by machine and packed in stores. Broth noodles are usually made from dried fish and dashima, a kind of seaweed. Sometimes, the shell are also used if you want to make it a seafood kalgooksoo, the kind that is very popular. Vegetables or seafood are also added such as potatoes, onions, varrots, clams, shrimp, squash, or mushrooms (it all depends on personal taste). Why is this good at eating in the summer? When those people went to Korea in the summer, food is often eaten during the summer, food is a lot of sweat but no effect keeps the body cool.

Hunting Winter Food In Korea

Speaking of taste, Korean food has a taste that was unique, like a cake tasting for example, in Korea in general use baking powder instead of using rice flour. Well to taste the most popular culinary cheap roadside following types of food popular in Korea that you must try in the winter:

HOTTEOK

The famous again along side a road that is Hotteok, the food is very similar to martabak. Hotteok a simple snack, have a sweet taste and is perfect when eaten cold. Hotteok arguably similar to pancales, the food is made from a mixture of rice flour, sugar, peanuts and cinnamon. The process of cooking that is fried with care.

TOPOKKI

Foods that this one might have regarded worl wide as toppokki is one food that famouse in Korea, not only in the winter it is often sought after food but the food is also always in summer, spring and autumn. This food has a spicy flavor and a little anise. Usually Toppokkis also presented in the new year and enjoyed through out the year in Tteokbokki.

Hunting Korean's FOOD ! NYAMMY...

                        In Korean, alcohol is almost always served and enjoyed with snacks or side dishes called "Anju". These dishes are often savory and or spicy fried chicken or squid, but nuts and fruit are also popular. It is a requirement to order anju with drinks at many Korean bars, clubs, and karouke places. Until recently, soju was the social drink of choice, but now beer, wine and brand name hard liquors are also popular.

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               Fruits is another popular anju, and fresh fruit plates are common in bars and nightclubs. A blend of  dried fruit and nuts is another anju. Since there are many soju drinks that use fruits like strawberries, lemons, oranges and apples fruit is a good complement to soju cocktails. Other finger food like sweet dried squid or dried anchovies and nuts are served as anju as well.

PAJUN

                     Savory foods are probably the most popular type of  anju, but that's mostly because anju is flexible. The most common savory anju dishes are things that are served pre-portioned like PA JUN, fried chicken, and soondae (Korean blood sausage).

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DUMPLINGS

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Some of DRINKS FAMOUS in Korea

BOKBUNJA JU

         Bokbunja, is blackberry native to Korea. The wine is the colour of oxblood, and its sweet, berry flavor is reminiscent more of dessert wine than a red wine. The drink has traditionally been associated with male virility, and it was not untill 2008 that a team of  Korean scientist  confirmed that the berry increased testosteron levels and sperm counts in mice. Talk about aphrodisiac.

BANANA MILK

                                      For many Koreans, banana milk conjures up memories of childhood. The most popular brand, binggrae, has cultivated a loyal following since it hit shelves in 1974, a time when bananas were a luxury food. Since then, binggrae has set its sights on the next generation, having the ever-popular Girl's Generation and the lead actor of Boys Over Flowers Lee Min-Ho star in its commercials.

SOJU

       As the ubiquity of these glittering green bottles in virtually every eating and drinking establishment should tell you : "soju is Korean's national liquor". For a nation of lushes, soju provides a cheap and effective way to get hammered.

CITRON TEA

                         Citron, more commonly reffered to as yuzu, has become a popular ingredient on the menus of fancy restaurant in the United States. The fruits it self look like a large tangerine, but has a tart flavor that places it more closely to grape fruit. As with the green plum, measil, Korean's preserve thin slices of citron in honey or sugar.