Korean Ingredient Glossary

In English, ‘Mirim’ (미림) is known as ‘Korean cooking rice wine’ or just ‘Korean cooking wine.’ In South Korea, people use this alcohol-based sweetener to remove undesirable smells and flavors …

Interested in Korean cooking? Here, we continue our learning journey about Korean ingredients. For this article, we are discussing Korean fish sauce. Here, we learn about fish sauce in Korean …

Do you like tteokbokki? What about jajang tteokbokki or tteokkochi? If so, you have eaten Korean cylinder-shaped rice cakes known as garaetteok! ‘Garaetteok’ (가래떡), also known as ‘garae-tteok’ or ‘garaeddeok,’ …

Across the countryside of South Korea, beautiful bellflowers grow wildly over the mountainous terrain and cultivated fields. This species of herbaceous flowering perennial plant is native to much of East …

The enoki mushroom, also known as the velvet shank, is a species of non-toxic mushroom native to much of East Asia. This edible fungus grows on the stumps and trunks …