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Korean Dining

Sampling the local cuisine is (0) …one… of the great pleasures for people visitting Korea, a country famous (1)…………………. its reach array of foods. Korean cuisine is highly distinct. It is rich (2) ………………. fermented and preserved food, and full of strong, spicy flavours – no meal is complete without a selection (3) ………….. strong chilli seasonings to enhance it! Meat, seafood, vegetables and wild greens, grains (4) …………………………. as rice, soups and teas all feature heavily in the Korean diet. Korean food is hardly ever deep fried. Instead, foods are boiled, steamed or stir – fried. It is highly nutritious, low (5) ………………… calories and fat, and very healthy. Koreans are very proud of(6) …………………………..! Distinct to korean cuisine is its way of picking instead (7) …………………. cooking vegetables. A classic korean dish (8) ………………….. fermented vegetables or ‘kimichi’. Kimichi is highly valued because of its disease-preventing propertis (9) ………………. most Koreans eat kimichi every day of the year – for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Korean meals are almost always accompanied (10) ………………………….. a bowl of soup or stew and they are not served in courses. Instead, dishes are all placed on the table (11) …………………………. the same time. Cooks try to create meals that harmonize five eesential flavours (hot, sour, sweet, salty, bitter) and five colours (green, red, white, black and yellow). They also pay particular attention (12) ………………….. the way foods are arranged on a plate and laid out on a table. Foods are meant to be arranged (13) …………………….. neat circles or parrallel columns. In Korea, you will never see a table with dishes laid out in a disorderly fashion.

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