Best Tasting South Korean Food (Dishes)

Amazingly, when I brought Kimchi (김치) during one of my vacation from Korea, my Mom loved it immediately. While it took me a couple of days to love it. Kimchi is always present on the table. It is the famous traditional side dish made from salted and fermented vegetables, most commonly napa cabbage and Korean radishes, with a variety of seasonings, including gochugaru (chili powder), scallions, garlic, ginger, and jeotgal (salted seafood).

With so many things to do to have fun staying in Korea, my "food trip" is one of my favorite hobbies. Why not? How can you resist these Korean foods; from meat grilled, to boiling hot stews, to chilies and pickles, served on your table? Definitely, you'll gonna fall in love with it as I do.

Let me share and guide with you these best tasting Korean dishes, my favorites, that you should eat. 

1. Galbitang (갈비탕) 

Galbitang is a soup made with beef short ribs called galbi (갈비). It comes with Korean radish (무), onion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce (국간장) and added with starch noodles (당면). It's my most favorite food.

Galbitang (갈비탕)

2. Samgyeopsal (삼겹살)

Samgyeopsal is a grilled fatty slice of pork belly. A favorite Pulutan (finger foods/appetizers) alongside an alcoholic drink. This ultra-tasty pork comes with garnishes of lettuce leaves, garlic and chili paste.

Samgyeopsal (삼겹살)

3. Bossam (보쌈)

Bossam is a Korean cuisine pork dish. It usually consists of belly pork that is boiled in spices and thinly sliced. It is being served with side dishes such as spicy radish salad, sliced raw garlic, ssamjang (wrap sauce), saeu-jeot (salted shrimp), 굴/ gul (oyster), kimchi, and 쌈/ssam (wrap) vegetables such as lettuce, kkaennip (perilla leaves), and inner leaves of a napa cabbage

Bossam (보쌈)

4. Gamjatang (감자탕)

Gamja-tang or pork back-bone stew is a spicy Korean soup made from the spine or neck bones of a pig. It comes potatoes, cellophane noodles, dried radish greens, perilla leaves, green onions, hot peppers, and ground sesame seeds.

Gamjatang (감자탕)

5. Samgyetang (삼계탕) 

Samgyetang or ginseng chicken soup derived from the word ginseng (삼), chicken (계) and soup (탕) . It comes primarily with a whole young chicken (poussin) and filled with garlic, rice, jujube, and ginseng.

Samgyetang (삼계탕)

6.  Jokbal (족발)

Jokbal consists of pig's trotters cooked with soy sauce and spices. Usually, it is braised in a combination of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and rice wine. It may also come with additional ingredients such as onion, leeks, garlic, cinnamon, and black pepper.

Jokbal (족발)

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7. Tonkatsu (돈까스) & Saeutwigim (새우튀김)

Tonkatsu (also known as "pork cutlet") is a Japanese dish but served here in Korea which consists of a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet. It comes so often with shredded cabbage. While Saeutwigim (Shrimp Tempura,  Fried shrimp, fried prawn) is deep-fried shrimp and prawns.

8.  Haemultang (해물탕)

Haemultang is a Korean style Spicy seafood stew. So short! I can't describe further. :)

Haemultang (해물탕)

9.) Sundae (순대) & Sundaegugbab (순대국밥)

Sundae is a type of blood sausage in Korean cuisine. It is generally made by steaming cow or pig's intestines stuffed with various ingredients. It's available or popular street food.

Sundae (순대) & Sundaegugbab (순대국밥)

10.) Gopchangjeongol (곱창전골)

Gopchangjeongol or beef tripe hot pot is a spicy Korean stew or casserole made by boiling beef tripe, vegetables, and seasonings in beef broth. Gopchang refers to tripes, while jeongol refers to a category of stew or casserole in Korean cuisine. It comes mainly on beef gopchang with added other parts of beef tripe to give the dish a richer flavor and chewy texture.

Gopchangjeongol (곱창전골)

11.) Beondegi (번데기)

Beondegi is actually a "pupa". It is a Korean street food made with silkworm pupae.  It can be a snack being sold by street vendors and served in paper cups with toothpick skewers. I can't eat it, I just taste a bit. But my friends loves it.

Beondegi (번데기)

12.) Kimchijjigae (김치찌개)

Kimchijjigae is made up of kimchi and other ingredients such as scallions, onions, diced tofu, pork, and seafood. It is one of the most common stews in Korea.

Kimchijjigae (김치찌개)

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13.) Bulgogi (불고기)

Bulgogi literally means "fire meat" is a Korean-style grilled or roasted dish made of thin, marinated slices of beef or pork grilled on a barbecue or on a stove-top griddle. It comes with cuts of beef such as sirloin, rib eye, or brisket.

Bulgogi (불고기)

14.) Jjamppong (짬뽕)

Jjamppong is my favorite Korean noodle soup with red, spicy seafood- or pork-based broth flavored with gochutgaru (chili powder). It comes with onions, garlic, Korean zucchini, carrots, cabbages, squid, mussels, and pork.

Jjamppong (짬뽕)

15.) Jogaegui (조개구이)

Is this a grilled shellfish?

Jogaegui (조개구이)

16.) Andong Jjimdak (안동찜닭)

Andong-jjimdak literally means steamed "Chicken of Andong" which is a Korean steamed or boiled dish that originated in the city of Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, and is made with chicken, and various vegetables marinated in a ganjang (Korean soy sauce) based sauce.

Andong Jjimdak (안동찜닭)

17.)  Liver of bull (소간)

Self-explanatory! You're gonna eat fresh liver. Looks delicious... :)
My Korean friends love it.

Liver (소간)

18.) Gomtang (곰탕)

Gomtang or Gomguk is a slow-simmered Korean beef bone soup. It comes with ribs, oxtail, brisket, ox's head, or ox bones. The broth tends to have a milky color with a rich and hearty taste.

Gomtang (곰탕)

19.) Bokkeumbab (볶음밥)

It's a Korean Fried Rice!

Bokkeumbab (볶음밥)

Are you hungry now? Choose anyone above and then let's go and enjoy these foods again... :)

Or any other dishes, not here that I need to enjoy? Invite me... :)

[Articles of this month will be entirely dedicated to the CEO’s Mother, in memory of her death on 5^th April 2018.]