Korean Foodies

1. Putting a salt bag in front of the door   - The reason why salt is put in front of the door is because when you move to a new house and step on the salt bag, you can hope for good things like wealth growth and family health. People also sprinkle salt on the front door to ward off evil spirits.   2. Sprinkling red beans     - It is a similar role to salt, so sprinkling red beans prevents bad energy. It is also said that sprinkling red beans wards off evil spirits because evil spirits hate red color.   3. Giving rice cakes to neighbors when people move to a new house       - People usually give red bean rice cake to their neighbors, and the reason was explained before. This is because red beans mean that they drive out evil spirits. Of course, they also give rice cakes to build friendship with their neighbors.   4. Eating seaweed soup     - This is about the test. Eating seaweed soup before a test is said to slip on the test b

✜ 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 clean and clean blood, they prevent hair los

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 5 people. Small version’s price begins from about 30,000 won, and bigger one’s price begins from about 5

 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-iJUpmU-eJWcq2

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 economic crisis of Korea wh