K-Love Homestyle Eats
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0 Many of us wonder what K-Love eats every day? What do they have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and how do they look alike. You may be wondering how it is different from our food and culture. Don’t worry here are the answers to your questions.
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First experience in a Korean restaurant
For many of us, eating Korean food for the first time in Korean restaurants is a very new experience, from ordering (dish names are pretty unique) the food to using chopsticks for the first time. Usually, it’s like this; you sit down and order the food, and within a few seconds the side dish arrives on your table.
Once you are done with ordering the food you wonder how it will be, while enjoying your awesome free appetizers, and waiting for your main dish. A few minutes later the dish that you were waiting to eat eagerly comes onto your table “Korean BBQ” or “hotpot or stew”. And it turns out to be super delicious and tasty, that you enjoy it wholeheartedly.
Erstwhile stew or soup comes with the main dish (“OMG, free stew”!) and in the end a bowl of rice. And for dessert, some restaurants serve fresh fruit, cold rice punch sweet porridge, or cinnamon-ginger-infused punch.
And when you visit next time the Korean restaurants, with lots of excitement for trying different dishes with free appetizers you expect the dishes to be served the same way again.
But But But it’s different from how typical Koreans eat at home, if you are cooking at home Korean food or want to introduce your friends or relatives to Korean food, then here is a trick on how to serve a Korean table home-style.
Korean Food at Home
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Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner the most important part of any Korean meal is “Rice”. It’s more than the main dish; it’s the foundation of the meal. With a few substitutes: Noodles, dumplings, porridge, or rice cake soup, every meal is made around rice, and without it, you won’t feel like having a meal at all!! Rice is the most important part of the meal and must be served.
In Korean, cooked rice, bap, means “meal”. That’s how important it is!
Kimchi, Soup, Stew, & Side Dishes
With rice always comes Kimchi, stew, or soup (and sometimes both). These 3 things are essential to Korean home-style meals, which usually come with side dishes, aka banchan. Banchan are made in many kinds and the decision of what to make depends on what you’re craving, plus seasonal, diet, and health conscious.
The soup always comes right in front of you and rice to the left of the soup and chopsticks on the outside. The side dishes are to balance out each other: color, textures, tastes, and cooking methods are unique and make for a well-balanced meal.
Unlike a restaurant, everything is served on the table at the same time. And this way you can choose from different dishes and eat how you like, set side by side and complementing the delicious tastes, textures, and temperatures as you like. While having the Fish, you should pick each piece and eat it whole, don’t just take a bite of it and put the rest back into the dish.
Traditional Kimchi Is Eaten as a Side Dish with Almost Every Korean Dish, it needs to be there!
Roasted Fish: Fish is served whole on the table. Using chopsticks to pluck off bite-sized bits.
Fish cake is another side dish that is soft, sweet, and a little chewy too.
Gim-gui Roasted seaweed paper is fresh with full of sea flavor and it’s a perfectly crunchy, crispy, nutty part of any meal.
Sigeumchi namul: It’s made of Spinach, all this together and you will have a nutrition, mouth-watering, flavorful meal, and that’s the beauty of Korean Food (한국 음식)
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