◆ Vegan & vegetarian food guide for Korea ◆ Survival ◆ Eating like a local ◆ K-food culture and Korean food language ◆
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 →
Can you find a connection between squirrels, Romans and Koreans? Here's one: Acorns. Everyone knows that squirrels are fond of nuts, including those of the oak tree. 🌰🐿 Archaeologists and historians know that also humans have consumed acorns since ancient times. 🌰🏛 Who knew that at present, foods made from acorns are a significant ingredient... Continue Reading →
Vegan sushi (chobab 초밥) with slices of gonyak. This is no regular sushi! 🍣 This is vegan sushi. What is that translucent topping? 😶 Doesn't it look like slices of squid or some other type of seafood? It's a vegan jelly produced from the root of a plant scientifically called Amorphophallus konjac. This kind of... Continue Reading →
♣️Sesame Sprinkles♣️ 