Korean foods are quite varied and full of nutrition. It is rich with fermented foods, vegetables and grains, soups, teas, liquors, confectionery and soft drinks. Kimchi is the best-known examples of Korean fermented foods and it also have recently become highly valed for their disease-prevention effects. The Korean meal is almost always accompanied by a big bowl of hot soup or stew, and the classic meal contains a variety of vegetables. Korean foods are seldom deep-fried like Chinese food; they are usually boiled or blanched, broiled, stir-fried, steamed, or pan-fried with vegetable oil. |
