South Korea Restaurants in South Korea Restaurant
A guide to the most popular Restaurants in South Korea. Here you will find an extensive list of the best South Korea Restaurants. Whether you're looking for a particular cuisine, or just looking for a nearby place to eat after a night out, you'll find the right South Korea Restaurant for you right here!
As a bridge between China and Japan, the physical location of Korea alone has fostered many cultural exchanges between the countries throughout history. It is hard to say which of the three countries originated the techniques and other characteristics of the three cuisines, but all share the balances of sweet, salty, bitter, hot and sour - the five flavours - in their approach to cooking and eating.
A typical Korean meal has several dishes served at the same time in the manner of a Chinese banquet. Dinner is the primary meal with lighter meals served at breakfast and lunch. Some variety of kim chee, the national dish of spicy pickled cabbage and other vegetables, is usually present at all of them. Eating out in Korea is typically an event that takes place over a leisurely period in the evening, and many restaurants in Seoul fill up early, and stay busy until around midnight.
Korea has developed a reputation in recent years as having a culture of food in which everything can be, and indeed is eaten, and specialities that may turn the western stomach include dog meat. Although such dishes may be considered taboo to countries where dogs are kept as pets, and the technique by which the animals are "tortured" prior to slaughter barbaric, the local thinking is that by antagonising the animals, they release various hormones such as adrenalin and various endorphins that improve the character of the meat. I have a pet dog, and I've no intention of finding out if the above is true.
Chopsticks and spoons are the main eating utensils, although in the increasing number of western restaurants throughout the country as a result of the large number of USA army personnel stationed in the country, other cuisines and knives and forks are becoming more widespread.
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