Interesting Korean food cultureXD

1. Korea egg shell is light-orange color! 
I was surprised to see Philippines' white colored egg shell at first. now, I'm more used to eat white colored egg 

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2. I think the most popular Korean dish is Kimchi, ryt? cabbage kimchi is common and widely consumed type but there are more than 300 types of kimchi! can u believe it?! actually, we can't count the exact number of it because it varies according to ingredients and the method on how to make it. Anyway the variety kinds of kimchi shows how koreans love to eat kimchi! 

 


Kimchi refrigerator!
there is specialized refrigerator just for kimchi in korea. We mostly make kimchi once a year and eat that kimchi for whole year. So keeping it fresh and delicious is really important. Kimchi ref was first launched on 1995 and now, almost all households own at least 1 kimchi ref!XD funny, ryt?



3. Koreans like to eat cooked rice with many Ban-chan(side dishes)

  what i noticed while living in the Philippines is that Filipinos are eating cooked rice with one or two side dishes. That's the thing that koreans are mostly surprised. 
Of course we don't eat daily meal like the one in the picture, but we prepare cooked rice with at least 3-5 side dishes and also soup(guk or tang). If you visit some of Korean restaurant, they will serve dining table like the one in the picture:))


4. We eat hot food on the hottest day of the year!
as you know, there are four seasons in Korea - spring, summer, autumn and winter. Winter is so cold that we can see snow but summer is as hot as Philippines! So koreans eat healthy food to overcome these hot weather



Two foods above are the most commonly consumed dishes for summer! Samge-Tang(chicken soup with ginseng and other ingredients) and Boshin-Tang(dog soup). Yes, not every Koreans but we do eat dog soup,haha. 
Anyway, koreans eat hot food(especially soup) in the hottest day of the year!XD

5. We really do like spicy food
I think most of Filipinos already noticed that many of korean foods are spicy, and we really do! As an example, we eat spicy shin-ramyun with more spicy kimchi! if i don't eat ramyun with kimchi, i feel something is missing!:( Some people add green onion or chili power when cooking ramyun!

Since I've been living in abroad for a long time, my taste is quite habituated to Filipino food or western food. But my stomach still feel uneasy when i keep on eating hamburger or spaghetti! I need to eat kimchi or korean style food at least twice a week!haha