Traditional Korean Foods

These are the most common traditional Korean food and foodstuffs: white rice, kimchi, soybean paste, soy sauce, red pepper sauce, noodles, cabbage, tofu, radish, green onions, onions, sweet potatoes, leeks, pears, apples, persimmons. Less common: bell peppers, carrots, white potatoes.

Koreans eat rice, kimchi, soybean paste, red pepper sauce daily. But they have supplemented their diet with a lot of other stuff. The traditional Korean diet is healthy, however the modern Korean diet is...well, good and bad.

Fried Chicken

I sometimes get a small booklet which is attached to my front door which is just restaurant ads which will deliver food. Almost all are pizza or chicken. Most of those are chicken. There must be fifteen chicken restaurants which will deliver to my door. Almost all have fried chicken and yang-nyum chicken which is chicken covered with a sweet and spicy sauce. Some advertise that they have grilled chicken which they say is more healthy. Some have barbecue. There are a few other types but the most commonly ordered one is fried. For about 15 bucks you can get a box of fried chicken, some packets of mustard to put on it, some fermented radish cubes and a bottle of Coke. It's a great food for families or college students. Families eat this at home while students often eat it outside at picnic tables which are set up around convenience stores. Of course they have alcohol with theirs.

I had the good fortune to go to a festival last week. Many who were there ordered pizza and chicken and ate on the festival grounds.