Food culture in home in South korea

Alright, i will introduce the food culture in my country. When i was in UK as a volunteer, a lot of my peers asked me how to eat in tradition. This is partly tradition, but this custom is quite similar with other family and houses.

1. Main food - Rice

Most of asians, not just for Korean, have a rice as a main dish to get the carbohydrate. The function of rice is similar with bread in Western culture.

2. Main dish - Fish or Meat.

I think this is also same as other country, like there is certain dish made by meat or fish. and this picture is same. we had a fish boiled down in a little bit spicy sauce. This is the main one. My home sometimes had a food made by meat, it depends on our condition in fridge. Anyway, in a wide prospective, the main dish made by fish or meat is similar.

3. side dish

This is different. Most of time, when i was in Europe, there were no side dish more than 3. There were salad and umm, sometimes dessert with custard or cake, crumble like that. But here is not. we have Kimchi which is kind of fermented cabbage, salad with mayonnaise, fried anchovy(not salted), fried boiled fish paste(i can't explain this food, upside of fish), fried food with sea-food and soup. 

4. How about the restaurant?

I think if the restaurant make the korean food, they will serve you at least more than 2 side dish, but if it is not like chinese, japanese, or french one, they will not serve you a lot, maybe they just serve kimchi, pickled radish or not. it depends on the type of restaurant.

5. How to enjoy?

Well, If you are vegetarian, you should find a korean restaurant, they will serve you a lot of vegetable dishes which is really healty. Most of dishes are not fried. It is usually boiled slightly and mix with traditional sauce like gochujang, fermented soybean paste, sesame oil or soy sauce. And the taste is 'colorful', really various. I'm sure the vegeterain can be happy in Korean food restaurant more than pasta, salad or pizza.

6. If you want to enjoy traditional korean dishes in south korea, you can go this one. This is Franchais but the quality of food is nice. I recommend these restaurant.

http://place.map.daum.net/25017656 - this one is near from Seoul University.

http://map.naver.com/?dlevel=12&pinType=site&pinId=36224673&x=127.0098939&y=37.5071482&enc=b64 - this one is possible to walk from Express bus terminal in seoul.