◆ Vegan & vegetarian food guide for Korea ◆ Survival ◆ Eating like a local ◆ K-food culture and Korean food language ◆
Above title is a common statement made by Korean children these days. ❄️🍓 Fresh strawberries appear in stores and on food markets at least in December, and they start to disappear again in March. In winter, many cafes update their seasonal menu to include strawberries, along with Christmas-themed options. If you live in contemporary South... Continue Reading →
Street food is fun! Finding vegan Korean street food, however, can be difficult. In contemporary Korea, the food world is speckled with hidden fish sauce, animal-based soup stock and dairy components (e.g. milk powder, whey, butter), and sometimes even beef tallow or gelatin is added to normally vegetarian breads and dessert! Korean street food provides... Continue Reading →
What do you normally eat when you're sick? 🤒 Is it soup? 🥣 Or is it something like pizza and cake? 🍕🍰 My guess is that it is something soft, easy to swallow and with a lot of liquid!Maybe soup? 🥣 Maybe gruel? 🥣 Maybe porridge? 🥣 The Korean version of "food that you eat... Continue Reading →
Did you eat your share of pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice latte last fall? 🥧🎃☕️ If it's not pumpkins, what in your opinion is a better symbol for fall?* In Korea, however, pumpkins are available all year round, regardless of the meteorological time! So this post is dedicated to Korea's sweet pumpkin [literally!] and other... Continue Reading →
Is corn a grain? 🌽🌾 Is corn a vegetable? 🌽🥬 Is corn a fruit? 🌽🍌 After reading this article, you might end up confused! But hopefully more clever! At least this is clear:Corn is cool. 🆒🌽 Why? Because all over the world, corn is used in a multitude of ways, ranging from being a major... Continue Reading →
No. This is not a tomato. 🍅 No. It's not advisable to use this fruit for classic pasta sauce. 🍝[But go ahead and try if you feel adventurous.]* Even though this fruit has a spherical shape and smooth, shiny skin with deep orange color, it has little kinship with tomatoes. 🚫🍅 It is the fruit... Continue Reading →
Sooooo... I've updated the layout a bit. And from now on, when you click on the menu button "Korean Veggie Dishes", you will find a page with links to the individual posts. I hope this makes navigating through the information on this homepage easier!👨💻 And what else? The page is actually a list of common... Continue Reading →
Anyone who tried it won't forget the refreshing experience of eating this typical Korean dessert: Bingsu. Milk-based Bingsu garnished with persimmon and jujube (daechu 대추) at Oknumong 옥루몽, Seoul 2017. This may be the ultimate guide to Korean Bingsu. Read on and learn everything you need to know about Bingsu, including what is Korean Bingsu,... Continue Reading →
Summer is supposedly over, the traditional Korean calendar announced 'the onset of autumn' (ipchu 입추 立秋) already on August 8, 2019. 🍃 But temperatures are still high - somewhere around 30 degrees Celsius or 85 degrees Fahrenheit. ☀️🌡💦 It is still pretty hot. It is still a weather that demands for cool, refreshing drinks and... Continue Reading →
These days, I often find myself thinking "Need... water... need... ice..." 🌡☀️😵 In an unstoppable impulse to find something that would quickly bring relief ❄️, I rummaged through various ice boxes, looking for ice cream. 🍦 (To be more precise, those of the popsicle kind - the "single servings".) While checking the loooong labels with... Continue Reading →
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