Posts Tagged ‘Traditional Food’

PostHeaderIcon Unique Korean Snacks

Like other Asian countries, Korea’s population was also very fond of eating snack. Korean people use materials such as wheat flour in various forms, until the silkworm pupa.

This unique food you can find easily in various parts of Korea in a place like these snack sales called Pojangmacha. So if you want an adventure with Korean food, go to this place and choose foods that fit your taste!

Beondegi
Stir-fried silkworm pupae. These foods are very popular among the Korean community, especially to be accompanied by the booze; these foods are even available in canned form.

Gimbap
Much like sushi, basically Gimbap is white rice which in the roll in seaweed along with several kinds of meat and vegetables and served cold. Usually served with rice seasoned salt, sesame oil or parilla.

Hobbang
It is a kind of bun, but the ingredients are from rice flour and red bean paste that is in it. Before eating, hobbang is heated in a steamer.

Hotteok
It is similar to pancakes with filling. Handful of stiff dough mixed with a mixture of palm sugar, honey, chopped nuts, and cinnamon, then friend in hot pan.

Tteokbokki
This simple popular food is made by boiling meat, vegetables, eggs and seasonings in water, like our fried sprouts. Before serving, sprinkled with chopped peanuts and walnuts ginkgo

PostHeaderIcon Pizza Becomes European Culinary Heritage

Pizza, special food origin of Naples, Italy, officially elected becomes the European culinary heritage. European Union to end the debate for a quarter of a century involving a pizza made in the southern Italian city which is famous as the creator of this delicious pizza. With the label ‘Traditional specialty Guaranteed (TSG)’, ‘Neapolitan pizza’ now should not be imitated.

The EU agriculture commission says, ‘Neapolitan pizza’ is now a part of the heritage of European food. TSG label itself was approved months ago. The association chairman said that the pizza maker trademark for Neapolitan pizza was an honor. TSG labels mean, all the stalls selling pizza (pizzeria) to make and sell the Naples-style pizza should be examined by a special commission that will examine the standards. The standards include the use of San Marzano tomatoes and fresh mozzarella cheese.

Italian farmers association said that half of 25,000 pizzerias in Italy mistakenly using materials of Neapolitan pizza. The mistake was, among others, the use of cheese from Eastern Europe or flour from Ukraine. Status of this trademark rights to make pizza producers can boast exclusivity of Neapolitan pizza and get their bonuses.

Meanwhile, Italy is now ranked first in EU with 180 protected products, surpassing Spain and France.

PostHeaderIcon Fish-head steamboat

Not far from Xin Yuan Ji, now there are also some other Chinese restaurant that sells fish-head steamboat – its Postal map spelling cuisine. Even along New Bridge Road up to Sultan Street, there’s more to eat some home sales Sino primarily on fish-head steamboat. That at the end of Sultan Streets even always abundant visitors, with tables and chairs arranged.

You should try fish-head steamboat at the G15 in a small alley near Geylang 15. You remember, right? An odd alley in Geylang is a warehouse where you can find great food in Singapore. But even Geylang is the central hall of the famous brothels in Singapore. If according to people there in Singapore, great food in usual place.

In the G15, the most different think is the sauce. Like eating habits at Chinese restaurant, head of the fish was not presented intact, but had been cut up so easily lifted with chopsticks. In addition to the fish pieces, there is also a piece of taro and vegetables. Portions are huge. The smallest portion with the price of Sin $ 20 alone was too full to eat together without rice. Understandably, taro is already a glut of carbohydrate sources.

The quality of fresh sauce really makes people reluctant to add the soy sauce. Soy sauce and sliced chili provided only to use for fish, while the sauce is sucked out without additional spoon.

PostHeaderIcon Bulgogi: Traditional Korean Steak

Bulgogi is one of the most famous Korean foods. It is also one of roast beef dish of the most popular in Korea. It is made from prime beef cattle and frequently marinated with a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, pear juice, pepper, garlic, onion, green onion, wine, salt and sugar until two to four hours to improve the taste and tenderness.

In addition to beef, roast pork Korea also call as Dweji Bulgogi and roast chicken as Buldak even different ways and materials to each other. . But the name is often called Bulgogi beef roast.

Traditionally, Bulgogi is usually served with lettuce that used to wrap pieces of meat cooked with special sauce, rice and other dishes and eaten whole.
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PostHeaderIcon Korean food

In Korea, there are several types of food that had connections with the life of antiquity (the kingdom). There are foods that formerly enjoyed only by royal families, there is also the only devoured by the public at large. But for sure, this time, there is one particular food that is really well liked by people who are executives and even unemployed. Its name is Jajangmyeon food (black noodles). It was said that the noodles was introduced by Chinese citizens who came to South Korea and sold limited for Chinese people only. However, over time, this noodle Koreans began to rage.

At the other they are also trying the rice mixed with vegetables, cooked egg, tuna or other fish, Bibimbab to answer their curiosity towards Korean food they had ever seen at the soap operas.

Korean food can be categorized into healthy foods because the ingredients and how it is cooked that is far from causing diseases like cholesterol.

Korean food is rich in the soup variant and do not contain coconut milk or a lot of fat and quite a lot that is fermented. So it is very healthy.