Korean Foods Trivia

1. Which food group is used the least in traditional Korean cuisine?

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Dairy

Seafood, vegetables and rice made up the bulk of traditional Korean cuisine, with very little consumption of dairy products. Modern Korean cuisine has been influenced by foreign nations with the addition of more dairy and processed foods. Also, many have replaced rice for noodles and bread as daily staples. Although statistics show most Asians as being lactose intolerant, South Korea has increased dairy use and production as compared to traditional Korean cuisine. Red Crew's jaknginger is very fond of cheese and milkshakes.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: fermented spicy cabbage

Making "kimchi" is a very labor-intensive job which usually takes most of the day. The Korean cabbage is combined with julienned carrots and Korean radish, spring onions, and a LOT of crushed red pepper. Traditionally, it is then placed in a large ceramic pot and buried underground to ferment.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Ramyun

Unlike America, Koreans prefer to eat their Ramyun (or Ramen) with the water.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Onggi

Kimchi is a very pungent side dish and can be made from a variety of vegetables. They are salted and seasoned, often using spring onions, garlic, ginger and gochugaru, a Korean chilli powder. Sometimes jeotgal, a salted seafood, is also added. Prior to contemporary refrigeration methods, the vegetables were placed in an onggi, which was buried in the ground to reduce overfermentation during the summer and to prevent the contents freezing during the winter. Special kimchi terraces called jangdokdae were also constructed to store the onggi. Like other fermented foods, kimchi is considered to be very beneficial to gut health, as the fermentation process produces large quantities of desirable micro-organisms. Red Crew's smpdit is partial to kimchi, but hasn't been successful in making her own.. Yet.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: garlic

Korea is the largest consumer of garlic. It is used in almost every appetizer, soup, entrée, and side dish.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Kim Bap

Suprisingly, the best Kim Bap I've ever had has no fish in it but bacon as the meat.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Soju

Soju is a clear liquor traditionally made from rice, wheat or barley, but has sometimes been made from potato or sweet potato. The origins of soju can be traced as far back as the 13th century, when the technique of distilling the drink was introduced by the Mongols. The custom when drinking Soju is for the youngest, or most junior person to serve the others. The soju bottle should be held with both hands when pouring, and the person receiving should hold the glass in both hands. Phoenix Rising's Red Crew member, leith90 would gladly grab a glass of soju with both hands.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: soup

There are many types of soup, one of the most common is miso soup. "Kimbap" resembles a California roll but the rice is seasoned and meat is used.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Bibim Bap

Personally, I think the best part is the rice that gets burnt on the sides of the hot stone bowl.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Mukbang

Contributing to the steady roll out of South Korean culture across the globe, known as kallyu or Korean Wave, the eating shows known as 'mukbang' have attractive people eating foods whilst interacting with fans. These foods are not necessarily traditional Korean dishes, but can include anything from pizza to noodles. Mukbang's popularity is attributed to lonely users having company whilst eating. Mukbang has been criticised for encouraging food waste as its popularity and therefore sponsorship has grown, bad practices such as overeating and misinformation have crept into the genre. Red Crew's smpdit sits eating bibimbap, a vegetable and rice dish whilst wearing tradition Korean Hanbok as she watches someone eating noodles.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Makali

Just the smell of Makali is enough to give most people a splitting headache. Even most Koreans don't want to deal with this traditional beverage for fear of cranial retrubution.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Rice beer

While the majority of beer sold in South Korea comes from two large breweries, lately microbreweries, thanks to a change in the tax laws, are establishing themselves. Beer is a favorite of Phoenix Rising's mike32768, however he's never sampled beer brewed from rice - that'll have to change!

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: a quarter of the population

Eating dog meat stems from the belief that the meat itself has special powers. Much like why some cultures eat turtle meat to help prolong their life.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Soju

The two most popular brands of Soju in Korea are Green and Jinro.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Red bean paste

Not specific to only Korea, red bean paste is a common ingredient in Asian pastries. Jjinppang is nice and soft when served warm. It is a steamed, sourdough bun with red bean skins and unsweetened red bean paste. The bun gets hard when it cools and can be re-steamed. Hwangnam is a wheat bread filled with red bean paste and traditionally has a stamp cutout of a chrysanthemum on the top. It is similar in shape to a US muffin. Hodo-gwaja is a Korean walnut cookie filled with red bean paste. It is shaped to look like a whole walnut. Jaknginger of Phoenix Rising will be on the lookout for these pastries on future world cuisine shopping trips.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: mung bean flour mixed with vegetables or kimchi

Spring onions, zucchini, carrots, and peppers are only some of the items added to the flour derived from mung beans. Sometimes squid, shrimp, and oysters are added as well but this is usually called "pajeon."

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Oscar

I think that it's some unwritten Korean law that no celebration is complete without a bottle of Oscar. Every birthday party I ever saw in Korea had at least one bottle of Oscar.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Autumn harvest festival

Chuseok, also called Hangawi, is one of the most celebrated Korean festivals. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar cycle, the middle of Autumn. Songpyeon is a small steamed rice cake shaped like a half-moon and with a sweet or savoury filling. They are then steamed over pine needles which imparts a distinctive taste and fragrance. The cakes were traditionally made using freshly harvested rice and offered as thanks to their ancestors for a bountiful harvest. They are also given to family and friends. The rice cakes are usually coloured brown, pink, white, green and yellow, and an old anecdote says that the person who makes the best looking songpyeon will have a bountiful life with a good spouse and beautiful children. Phoenix Rising's Red Crew member leith90 has tried the Chinese moon cake, but has not had an opportunity to sample the Korean songpyeon.

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: marinated and grilled

"Bulgogi" is thinly sliced and marinated in soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil, spring onions, pepper, and sugar. At restaurants it is cooked in front of you on a grill. The meat is wrapped in a lettuce leaf and topped off with spicy red bean paste.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Bulgogi

Bul- means 'fire' and gogi is 'meat'. Bulgogi came from the Pyongan Province, North Korea and spread to South Korea after WWII. Bulgogi is marinated meat that has been sliced thin and cooked. It is typically grilled or stir-fried. Neobiani is also grilled meat but sliced into broad sections. Galbi is Korean grilled short ribs. Yakiniku is Japanese grilled meat. Jaknginger of PR's Red Crew loves bulgogi!

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: mul naengmyeon

There are two types of "naengmyeon:" "mul" and "bibim." They both consist of cold thin handmade buckwheat noodles topped with sliced vegetables, fruit, a boiled egg, and thinly sliced beef. But "mul naengmyeon" is in a cold broth while "bibim naengmyeon" substitutes the broth for "gochujang," a spicy red bean paste.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Sundae

Although the sight of a six foot long piece of stuffed intestine being boiled in a huge metal bowl may not be the most appetizing sight, it does have an extremely appealing flavor.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Sesame oil

Gim literally means seaweed and bap is rice. Gimbap, or kimbap as sometimes called, are seaweed-wrapped rice rolls. The rice is seasoned with sesame oil. The fillings vary in Korean gimbap. One could see meats, imitation crabmeat, vegetables, eggs and cheese. Traditionally, gimbap is served with side dishes like kimchi or other pickled vegetables. While there's a debate over which came first, norimaki or gimbap, PR's jaknginger can attest that both are delicious!

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Tagee Kalbi

Many a Muslim has been fooled by deceptively beef-looking pork meat. It even tastes like a really soft beef.

From Quiz Let's Eat South Korean Style!

Answer: Lims Chicken

Almost a third of chicken eaten in South Korea is fried, the practice can be dated back as a form of cooking to the 15th century. Yu Seck-ho studied abroad in the US and gained a following selling fried chicken there and upon his return to Seoul started selling smaller pieces of fried chicken out of a basement in a department store, beginning the franchise of Lims chicken in 1975. KFC expanded on fried chicken's popularity when they opened in South Korea in 1984. Red Crew's smpdit seasoned, coated and fried the info for this question

From Quiz The Wonderful World of Korean Cuisine

Answer: pine nuts

Traditionally, three pine nuts float at the top of a small bowl filled with this sweet rice punch to signify good luck. Also, there are the disintegrating rice grains at the bottom from which the beverage was made.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Jaja Myun

Koreans will swear up and down this dish is Chinese. I have yet to see a Chinese restaurant have it or a Korean restaurant not have it.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Chop Chey

This dish is almost impossible to eat with chopsticks, as the already slick "rubber" noodles are made even harder to get ahold of when you add oil.

From Quiz Land of the morning Kimchi

Answer: Kimchi Jiggae

By hot dog I mean frankfurters, not the barking kind.

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