Food Option: How Koreans Eat Their Way Through the Year

Grilled pork belly is good for you when you breathe in a lot of dust, such as on yellow dust days. In spring, when yellow dust is common, or when you do some heavy cleaning or move to a new house, or when your throat feels dry from the dust, have some grilled pork belly. The pork fat can help clean out the fine dust from your system. Miners who worked with coal dust used to enjoy it. Actually, everyone loves pork belly, so they eat it any day, but it's especially good on yellow dust days. 

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Cold noodles and bean soup noodles are great for sunny days (땡볕이 쨍쨍한 여름날에는 냉면과 콩국수)

When it's hot and you feel stuffy and tight in your chest, nothing beats cold noodles. Cold noodles with chilled broth are a perfect food option for summer. Koreans can't resist this dish. Bean soup noodles are similar to cold noodles, but instead of broth, you have a white and savory bean sauce. The sauce has a delicious flavor that cools you down.

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Green onion pancakes and rice wine are ideal for rainy days ( 비오는 날에는 파전에 막걸리)

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When it's rainy and cold, you'll love green onion pancakes (파전). You'll feel your mouth water as you see the green onion pancakes frying in oil. You'll also want a glass of rice wine to go with it. There are other kinds of pancakes too, like mung bean pancakes with mung beans and pork fat (빈대떡), kimchi pancakes with chopped kimchi (김치전), and chive pancakes with fresh chives (부추전).

The picnic lunch for kids is kimbap (아이의 소풍 도시락은 김밥)

If you ask adults about their school days memories, one thing that always comes up is the picnic day and the kimbap they ate on that day. Even in this era when there are so many things to eat, kimbap is still the choice for a picnic day. Kimbap is rice with various delicious ingredients on top of a sheet of seaweed, rolled up and sliced. Don't miss out on kimbap for your kids' picnic day.    

For birthdays, there is cake and seaweed soup (생일에는 케이크와 미역국)

Happy~ birthday~ to you~ Along with the birthday song, some foods come to mind. One of them is 'birthday cake'. You stick candles as many as your age on the cake, clap and sing, and then blow out the candles with one long breath. If the birthday cake is common in every country, then the unique food of Korea is 'seaweed soup'. Seaweed soup is originally a food option that is given to mothers who have given birth, but it is also eaten on birthdays. It is also called the day when 'your ears fall off' (귀빠진 날).

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What is the most delicious hangover soup? (가장 맛있는 해장국은?)

What food is good for the day after drinking a lot of alcohol? 'Hangover soup' (해장국) is the perfect food to take care of your liver that is tired from alcohol and to soothe your sour stomach. Hangover soup should not be too spicy or greasy, but rather mild and light. People have different preferences, but the most popular food option ones are bean sprout soup (콩나물국), dried pollack soup (북어국), ox blood soup (선지국), radish leaf soup (시레기국), etc. Other foods like crab soup (재첩국), kimchi soup (김칫국), or codfish stew (동태탕) are also popular.

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