Comments on: A Short Korean Food Primer

By: NOH SANG-JIN

NOH SANG-JIN — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:14:41 +0000

This site show Korean food very well. I’m Korean. So I’m happy and I have fill pride.
I like korean food and I know a lot of korean food.
I recomend royal court food.

By: Ryelit

Ryelit — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:38:20 +0000

I’m glad I remembered this site had been posted on Metafilter a while back.

This has been a particularly useful intro for me, as one who is hoping to come to Kore in the upcoming months. Thanks for putting this together. And I look forward to the liquor guide.

By: Yoon

Yoon — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:01:32 +0000

I found this page while surfing,.

The word 라면 (according to the Internet) comes originally from the Chinese 拉麵, which is the method of making noodles by dividng them again and again (1-2-4-8-16-32…). Although the pronounciation of the Chinese is Napmyun in Korean, it was apparently ramen in Japanese.

Now, we don’t actually make the noodles in the above way, but than language never makes sense.

ps. This is a great site. I would love to read the drinking etiquette post if it comes up.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:25:04 +0000

You’re right, of course. My bad — I had a bit of a brainfart.

By: bugbread

bugbread — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:32:48 +0000

Sticking your chopsticks upright in your rice is not, as far as I know, considered bad luck because it resembles the Chinese character for death (which is 死), but because that’s how offertory rice is/was traditionally presented at gravesites.