This very popular South Korean soup is made with a whole young chicken stuffed with rice. Ginseng, ginger, jujube fruit, and garlic are also in the broth, making it a very flavorful guk (soup). The soup arrives at your table literally boiling in the clay pot, which keeps it very warm for the rest of the meal. It's traditionally eaten during the summer months and thought to restore nutrients lost through sweating, however we last had it on a VERY cold day which made it more enjoyable. I still can't get too psyched about this meal because it's more work than I like just to eat soup - eating Samgyetang requires a lot of picking and poking with chopsticks.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday Food
Samgyetang 삼계탕
This very popular South Korean soup is made with a whole young chicken stuffed with rice. Ginseng, ginger, jujube fruit, and garlic are also in the broth, making it a very flavorful guk (soup). The soup arrives at your table literally boiling in the clay pot, which keeps it very warm for the rest of the meal. It's traditionally eaten during the summer months and thought to restore nutrients lost through sweating, however we last had it on a VERY cold day which made it more enjoyable. I still can't get too psyched about this meal because it's more work than I like just to eat soup - eating Samgyetang requires a lot of picking and poking with chopsticks.
This very popular South Korean soup is made with a whole young chicken stuffed with rice. Ginseng, ginger, jujube fruit, and garlic are also in the broth, making it a very flavorful guk (soup). The soup arrives at your table literally boiling in the clay pot, which keeps it very warm for the rest of the meal. It's traditionally eaten during the summer months and thought to restore nutrients lost through sweating, however we last had it on a VERY cold day which made it more enjoyable. I still can't get too psyched about this meal because it's more work than I like just to eat soup - eating Samgyetang requires a lot of picking and poking with chopsticks.
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You use chopsticks for soup? Maybe that is why it needs to be so hot. Funny that it would be a summer meal. Such adventures you are having there.
there's the organ, or whatever peter was calling it... omg im dying just remembering that scene
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