Korean Foodies

✜ Yuja tea - Good for a Cold!      Yuja teas are rich in Vitamin C and Citric acid, so they are good for preventing and treating colds. Vitamin C is 10 times as high as banana, 2 times persimmon, and 3 times as much as lemon, and is also rich in Citric acid, helping to recover from colds. Also, the Rimonen in the Yuja relieves inflammation in the neck and relieves coughs.   ✜ Ginger tea - Good for Your Throat!    Ginger tea, which is good for colds, plays a role in early catching neck colds or bronchitis. Because ginger is rich in Antioxidant, it helps remove toxins from the body and improve immunity. It stimulates the metabolism to keep the body warm and suppresses coughing or phlegm. But be careful because ginger is an irritating food and if you eat too much, it can cause diarrhea or stomachaches!   ✜ Black beans - Good for Hair Loss!    Since the Flavonoid contained in black beans provides ...

http://naver.me/51JLNKjQ  = Video link 1.      What is it? The air fryer machine is an appliance that helps cooking process.  You can cook various kind of foods by using it. This machine uses that food’s own oil when it is cooked, even without any other cooking oil. 2.      How to use it? First, choose what kind of food will you cook.  Second, if you want, add some salt or pepper to ingredients.  Third, put your all ingredients in the socket of machine, and push the socket into the machine.  Fourth, check the suitable time and temperature about your ingredients.  Finally, set up the time and temperature to cook, and left things you need to do is just waiting until finishing. 3.      The price of it.      The cost to but this machine is not cheap. There are two size of the air fryer. One is small size for 1 or 2 people. The other one is bigger size for 4 to ...

 Koreans have seaweed soup on their birthdays. In Korea, long ago, Gray Whales were the native species(they became extinct now), and Korean ancestors were used to finding them on the coast. Gray Whales were famous for making an abrupt appearance and dissapear like a ghost so, in Korea, they're called as Guisin Whale, which means Ghost Whale. They figured out that these Gray Whales ingest seaweed after giving birth to their offsprings and presumed that seaweed helps the mother for the recovering after delivery.   In fact, for this reason, seaweed soup was for the mother but these days sons and daughters eat it on their birthday and parents cook for them(also eat together). Although the person who eats the seaweed soup has changed from its origin, still Koreans meditate on their parents'-especially their mother-interminable love and gratitude for them while eating it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/103629201@N02/33474413211/in/photolist-T127Pn-eJWfmp-7p6MTX-6w3nTm-iJ...

Story of Samgyeopsal  Samgyeopsal, the Korean barbeque has a quite short history compared to its overwhelming popularity around the world. Samgyeopsal is the high-fat part of pork belly with 3 layers of fat and lean meat. There are many stories about the origin of Samgyeopsal, but here is the most established theory.  Koreans used to eat the pork belly part since Goguryeo dynasty, (BC 100 - AD 668) but they didn't grill it. Mostly, Koreans used to boil it. After World War 2, the consumption of pork has highly increased in Japan because of the hit of breaded pork cutlet and other dish using pork. Therefore, they started to look for the place to breed pigs outside of Japan since the pork-breeding causes a serious environmental problem; Korea. Japan needed parts such as sirloin and lean ribs and also needed to find the market to sell the leftovers like pork belly and fat; also Korea.  Pork belly hit Korean food culture during the 1980s and after the ec...

     Food contains culture. 뻥튀기 is one of the things contains Korean culture in it. It is a kind of Korean snack made by a machine that swells corn and rice with the heat and the pressure. The taste is mild –it can be crispy- and savory. You can easily see it as an appetizer with drinks in the Korean pub.    There are many kinds of 뻥튀기 . Some of them are quite sweet, -my favorite one- others are a little bit bland.    As you can easily know, all the ingredients are grains and they add only a few amounts of salt or sugar, it is much better for your health than other snacks.        The most interesting is the moment when the truck-guy who makes 뻥튀기 with the machine on the corner of the street, shouts ‘ 뻥이요 ’. In common, it is not okay to yell on the street, but these men have the right to do so because it’s the biggest moment of making 뻥튀기 . Since the sound that the machine makes when the grains are ready t...

 How much salt do you take a day? Do you know what the average sodium content is? Well, if you cannot answer both questions, let us explain about it for the sake of your health.   According to the record, 180mg of sodium is necessary for survival and we are recommended to consume 1,500mg of it. –it’s a big gap, right?  It says American adults consume 3,400 mg of salt every day. – it’s average, so there must be quite many people take much more salt than that.-   However, surprisingly, Korean adults consume 4800mg a day! It’s more than 3times of the recommended amount. Then, what makes us be a salt-addicted? The answer is food, obviously. There are few people who do not prefer to eat Kimchi, but the majority of Koreans eat it every day. The Korean Consumer Agency analyzed the nutritional content of Kimchi and found that it contains 643mg of sodium per 100g. It’s less than the safe-amount. The thing is, we don’t eat only kimchi.    Wh...