Yummy Mommy - Korean Snack Bar

Korean Culture
Korea, historically, has a very rich food cuisine and tradition. Similar to most other Asian countries the main food is rice which makes up most of the Korean staple diet. Additionally the Korean short grain rice, also known as sticky rice, makes up their staple diet, similar to Japanese rice. Rice is present in every Korean meal together with kimchi, a typical Korean food eaten all the time with rice, by itself or with soups. Korean kimchi is made using cabbage, however other types of vegetables can be used such as cucumber, radish or bean sprouts, fermented with chilly garlic and other spices. Kimchi is supposedly extremely good for the health because it is rich in vitamins and Lactobacilli. A typical Korean meals consts of a bowl of rice, bowl of soup, several side dishes and the main dish which is often shared by the people that are eating together, while the bowl of soup and the bowl of rice are individual. Korean cuisine involves the use a lot of garlic (a lot more than in Thai, I bowl of rice are individual. Korean cuisine involves the use a lot of garlic (a lot more than in Thai, Italian, Spanish or Greek cuisine), a lot of red chillies, spices such as ginger, doenjang (fermented soy paste), soy sauce and gochujang (red chilli paste). Korean cuisine includes recipes with meat, fish, vegetables, noodles and tofu. Altogether Korean cuisine is very healthy.