Release date 26-9-7
The internal structure of Korean restaurants can be divided into two types: using chairs and taking off shoes to get on the kang.
When eating on the kang, men sit cross-legged and women stand on their right knees-this sitting method is only used when wearing Hanbok. Nowadays, Korean women don't wear hanbok at ordinary times, so just put their legs together and sit down. After sitting on a good dish, in a short time, the aunt in the restaurant will come to you with a tray. She will take out the tableware from the tray first, and then the food.
Koreans usually use flat-pointed chopsticks made of stainless steel. Both China and Japan have the habit of eating with rice bowls, but Koreans regard this behavior as irregular. And you can't touch the rice bowl with your mouth. A bowl with a round bottom and a lid sits on the table, and there is no handle for you to hold. Coupled with the heat transferred from the rice to the bowl, it is reasonable not to touch it. As for the bowl cover, you can take it off and put it on the table at will.
since you misbehave, your left hand must be obedient and honestly hidden under the table, and you must not "show your hand" on the table. The right hand must first pick up the spoon, drink a mouthful of soup from the pickle, then eat a mouthful of rice with the spoon, and then have another mouthful of soup and rice, and then you can eat anything at will. This is the order in which Koreans eat. Spoons are more important than chopsticks in the diet of Koreans. They are responsible for holding soup, fishing for vegetables in soup and loading rice. When not in use, they should be placed on rice bowls or other utensils. And chopsticks? It is only responsible for picking vegetables. No matter how you can't get the bean sprouts out of your soup bowl with a spoon, you can't use chopsticks. First of all, it is a matter of food ceremony, and secondly, soup may flow down the chopsticks to the table. When chopsticks are not holding vegetables, the traditional Korean practice is to put them on the table in the right hand direction, with two chopsticks together, two thirds on the table and one third outside the table, which is for the convenience of picking them up and using them again.
Koreans are an emotional people. We should fully understand how they express their feelings through dinner, and at the same time, we must intellectually admit that it is an unsanitary "food gift".
The characteristics of Korean diet
Because the climate and local conditions are suitable for developing agriculture, South Korea began to cultivate miscellaneous grains as early as the Neolithic Age, and then popularized the cultivation of rice. Since then, grain has become the center of Korean food culture, and in the late Three Kingdoms period, an inherent Korean home-cooked meal with rice and vegetables as the main and non-staple food was formed. Later, cereal diets such as rice, porridge, cakes, noodles, jiaozi, sliced soup and wine were developed, which also brought the development of fermented diets with soy sauce as the primer and then yellow sauce. Not only cultivated vegetables, but also a wide variety of wild vegetables that grow naturally in Shan Ye, which can be used to make cold dishes, rice balls, vegetarian dishes, pickles, etc., and decorate the table with the seasons.
Traditionally, ginger, cinnamon, mugwort, Schisandra chinensis, medlar, adenophora adenophora, platycodon grandiflorum, papaya, pomegranate, grapefruit, ginseng and other medicinal materials have been widely used in cooking. There are various foods such as ginseng chicken soup, Ai Gao, Radix Adenophorae, cold salad, etc., as well as raw ginger tea, ginseng tea, papaya tea, citron tea, wolfberry tea, cassia seed tea, tea and other drinks. Seasonings and spices are also called medicine in Korea. It has always been believed that onion, garlic, ginger, pepper, sesame oil and sesame have medicinal properties. The daily food of Koreans is mainly rice, accompanied by several dishes. The staple food is mainly rice and miscellaneous grain rice mixed with millet, barley, soybeans, adzuki beans and other miscellaneous grains.
Non-staple foods mainly include soup, miso soup, pickles and sauces, as well as foods made from meat, flat fish, vegetables and seaweed. This way of eating can not only eat all kinds of food evenly, but also achieve the goal of balanced nutrition.
The staple foods are rice, porridge, noodles, jiaozi, rice cake soup and sliced soup. Non-staple foods include soup, miso soup, roasting, frying, miso meat, stir-frying, sliced meat, wild vegetables, vegetables, fish in miso, dried fish, miso, stew, hot pot, pickles and so on. In addition to this daily diet, there are a variety of cakes, maltose, tea, wine and other diets. It promoted the development of sauces, sauced fish, pickles, etc. for storing fermented foods.
Korean food includes daily food that is repeated every day, food that must be put in a ceremony during the whole life, food for the harvest festival and the fish festival when praying for the harvest year and the fish harvest, food for the tribal sacrifice to pray for the peace of the tribe, and food for the sacrifice to mourn the dead. At the same time, it also uses the food at that time to make seasonal cuisine with the different seasons. South Korea's seasonal food custom is formed by coordinating the wisdom of man and nature, and it is also very scientific in nutrition. For example, eating walnuts on the fifteenth day of the first month will not cause sores all year round, which must be based on the scientific statement that supplementing the lack of fatty acids can effectively prevent skin rot, tinea and eczema. And beginning of spring eats wild vegetables in spring, which not only has the feeling of welcoming the spring, but also can supplement the vitamins lacking due to winter.
It can be said that the local diet is a local specialty according to the local geography and climate characteristics, and it is an authentic folk diet made by the ancestral cooking method. From this point of view, the customs of the New Year, through rituals and living customs, which are inherited in various places not only have the characteristics of local culture, but also have great significance in terms of nutrition.
In a class at the Korean Language Institute of Seoul National University, a beautiful female teacher taught "meat", giving examples of using pork, chicken and beef. Jeff, a good Australian student, chipped in and mentioned the word "dog meat". The teacher tried to duck lightly, but other students asked what it meant.
Jeff proudly explained in English that it was dog meat. Someone exclaimed immediately, and American students and Finnish students couldn't keep their mouths shut for a long time. The teacher asked: which country do people eat dog meat? I shook hands with another China student hesitantly. The teacher asked Mongolian students: Don't Mongolians eat dog meat? She may think that Mongolia is adjacent to China and should be close in habits. A nao, a Mongolian female student, said loudly no, and then said: Eating dog meat is just eating friends' meat. I just learned the word "friend" in class, and she uses it very smoothly and her pronunciation is unprecedented.
The female teacher's expression was unnatural for a moment, as if all the embarrassments a nation had encountered on the dog meat issue were written on her face. She mumbled a statement: In Korea, people who eat dog meat are all "bad and fine". This word is equivalent to "old men" in Chinese, meaning men who are married, nearly forty years old and have a stubble face. Vulgar, good wine, paunchy and careless.
This attitude of hers is the true psychology of quite a few Koreans now. Eating dog meat, drinking soju and singing with drums and pots are the traditional lifestyles of Koreans in our impression. Therefore, Seoul should have been the base camp of dog meat restaurants. When I came into the restaurant, a bowl of dog broth was piled on the table, which was thick in flavor and oil. There was a secret heat hidden under the red pepper. I swallowed it in a hurry and sweated my forehead immediately. How carefree it would be.
But today, when you walk on the main street in Seoul, you can't see a dog meat restaurant at all, which is caused by the Olympic Games and the World Cup. When bidding for the Olympic Cup, capable Koreans did a great job in hardware and software. Unexpectedly, small appetite became an obstacle to hosting the grand event. Westerners are happy to treat dogs as brothers, so they can't tolerate some people in the East who regard dogs as delicacies. Koreans have also argued that the dogs they eat are carnivorous dogs, not pet dogs, but westerners don't listen. This is the irrationality of the so-called strong culture. Lian Yue, a writer, once said that the dog meat restaurant was only temporarily closed, but after the World Cup, it was not completely reopened, and the business might be even better. It could not change the eating habits of Koreans and save the lives of dogs. Why bother?
The second half of Lian Yue's words belongs to speculation. After the World Cup, most dog meat restaurants in Seoul closed their doors and changed jobs, and those that reopened also went into hutongs, just like newsstands in some cities in China were driven into alleys. After several tossing and turning, not eating dog meat really evolved into a fashion in Seoul. Fashion is contagious. You know, nearly half the population of this country lives in this city. The so-called boat turns around easily, and most Seoul people don't eat it. If you insist that Korean eating habits will never change, you really have to be cautious.
But as far as I know, some professors from Seoul National University occasionally join groups to eat dog meat. Most of them have received western education, and they also understand the feelings of westerners against Seoul's bid for the Olympic Cup based on dog meat, but this does not affect them to secretly eat dog meat in Seoul's hutongs. They are dressed in suits and ties, chewing according to the case, but they are full of happiness in silence. This kind of happiness, exaggerated, is like in ancient times, a group of friends, dressed in animal skins, hid in the depths of the jungle, lit a bonfire and roasted prisoners.
Of course, some people are openly dissatisfied. According to Korean media reports, a professor surnamed An from Chungcheong University presided over the development of dog sausage, canned dog meat and dog meat burger. There is even a vanishing cream extracted from dog oil, of course, the scientific name is cream, or essence. In a word, he should vigorously advocate dog culture and challenge westerners with high-tech development.
On the occasion of Professor An's press conference, members of Seoul's "Citizens' Group Against Eating Dog Meat" held a rally outside the restaurant. They held slogans such as "Love animals" and "Dog meat is not a traditional diet in Korea" to oppose Professor An. The news didn't say whether Professor An saw the second slogan. If he did, he might think: You can say that the sun is black by blindfolding yourself? You don't want to eat, you want to connect with the world, you can start from yourself, from now on, don't eat. But when you say you haven't eaten it at all, that's a bit dishonest.
In a class at the Korean Language Institute of Seoul National University, a beautiful female teacher taught "meat", giving examples of using pork, chicken and beef. Jeff, a good Australian student, chipped in and mentioned the word "dog meat". The teacher tried to duck lightly, but other students asked what it meant.
Jeff proudly explained in English that it was dog meat. Someone exclaimed immediately, and American students and Finnish students couldn't keep their mouths shut for a long time. The teacher asked: which country do people eat dog meat? I shook hands with another China student hesitantly. The teacher asked Mongolian students: Don't Mongolians eat dog meat? She may think that Mongolia is adjacent to China and should be close in habits. A nao, a Mongolian female student, said loudly no, and then said: Eating dog meat is just eating friends' meat. I just learned the word "friend" in class, and she uses it very smoothly and her pronunciation is unprecedented.
The female teacher's expression was unnatural for a moment, as if all the embarrassments a nation had encountered on the dog meat issue were written on her face. She mumbled a statement: In Korea, people who eat dog meat are all "bad and fine". This word is equivalent to "old men" in Chinese, meaning men who are married, nearly forty years old and have a stubble face. Vulgar, good wine, paunchy and careless.
This attitude of hers is the true psychology of quite a few Koreans now. Eating dog meat, drinking soju and singing with drums and pots are the traditional lifestyles of Koreans in our impression. Therefore, Seoul should have been the base camp of dog meat restaurants. When I came into the restaurant, a bowl of dog broth was piled on the table, which was thick in flavor and oil. There was a secret heat hidden under the red pepper. I swallowed it in a hurry and sweated my forehead immediately. How carefree it would be.
But today, when you walk on the main street in Seoul, you can't see a dog meat restaurant at all, which is caused by the Olympic Games and the World Cup. When bidding for the Olympic Cup, capable Koreans did a great job in hardware and software. Unexpectedly, small appetite became an obstacle to hosting the grand event. Westerners are happy to treat dogs as brothers, so they can't tolerate some people in the East who regard dogs as delicacies. Koreans have also argued that the dogs they eat are carnivorous dogs, not pet dogs, but westerners don't listen. This is the irrationality of the so-called strong culture. Lian Yue, a writer, once said that the dog meat restaurant was only temporarily closed, but after the World Cup, it was not completely reopened, and the business might be even better. It could not change the eating habits of Koreans and save the lives of dogs. Why bother?
The second half of Lian Yue's words belongs to speculation. After the World Cup, most dog meat restaurants in Seoul closed their doors and changed jobs, and those that reopened also entered hutongs, just like newsstands in some cities in China were driven into alleys. After several tossing and turning, not eating dog meat really evolved into a fashion in Seoul. Fashion is contagious. You know, nearly half the population of this country lives in this city. The so-called boat turns around easily, and most Seoul people don't eat it. If you insist that Korean eating habits will never change, you really have to be cautious.
But as far as I know, some professors from Seoul National University occasionally join groups to eat dog meat. Most of them have received western education, and they also understand the feelings of westerners against Seoul's bid for the Olympic Cup based on dog meat, but this does not affect them to secretly eat dog meat in Seoul's hutongs. They are dressed in suits and ties, chewing according to the case, but they are full of happiness in silence. This kind of happiness, exaggerated, is like in ancient times, a group of friends, dressed in animal skins, hid in the depths of the jungle, lit a bonfire and roasted prisoners.
Of course, some people are openly dissatisfied. According to Korean media reports, a professor surnamed An from Chungcheong University presided over the development of dog sausage, canned dog meat and dog meat burger. There is even a vanishing cream extracted from dog oil, of course, the scientific name is cream, or essence. In a word, he should vigorously advocate dog culture and challenge westerners with high-tech development.
On the occasion of Professor An's press conference, members of Seoul's "Citizens' Group Against Eating Dog Meat" held a rally outside the restaurant. They held slogans such as "Love animals" and "Dog meat is not a traditional diet in Korea" to oppose Professor An. The news didn't say whether Professor An saw the second slogan. If he did, he might think: You can say that the sun is black by blindfolding yourself? You don't want to eat, you want to connect with the world, you can start from yourself, from now on, don't eat. But when you say you haven't eaten it at all, that's a bit dishonest.
In a class at the Korean Language Institute of Seoul National University, a beautiful female teacher taught "meat", giving examples of using pork, chicken and beef. Jeff, a good Australian student, chipped in and mentioned the word "dog meat". The teacher tried to duck lightly, but other students asked what it meant.
Jeff proudly explained in English that it was dog meat. Someone exclaimed immediately, and American students and Finnish students couldn't keep their mouths shut for a long time. The teacher asked: which country do people eat dog meat? I shook hands with another China student hesitantly. The teacher asked Mongolian students: Don't Mongolians eat dog meat? She may think that Mongolia is adjacent to China and should be close in habits. A nao, a Mongolian female student, said loudly no, and then said: Eating dog meat is just eating friends' meat. I just learned the word "friend" in class, and she uses it very smoothly and her pronunciation is unprecedented.
The female teacher's expression was unnatural for a moment, as if all the embarrassments a nation had encountered on the dog meat issue were written on her face. She mumbled a statement: In Korea, people who eat dog meat are all "bad and fine". This word is equivalent to "old men" in Chinese, meaning men who are married, nearly forty years old and have a stubble face. Vulgar, good wine, paunchy and careless.
This attitude of hers is exhibited by quite a few Koreans.