Best Korean food picked by foreign tourists
Do you like Korean food? If you ever been to Korea which Korean dish have you enjoyed the most? The Korea Culture and Tourism Institute said that it conducted a survey on about 9,000 foreigners who left Korea. Let’s take a look at which Korean dish is on top of the list.
Top 5 on the list of favorite Korean dish
Rank 5. Korean Galbi (14.9%)
Galbi, galbi-gui, or grilled ribs is a type of gui in Korean cuisine. “Galbi” is the Korean word for “rib”, and the dish is usually made with beef short ribs. When pork spareribs or another meat is used instead, the dish is named accordingly.
Rank 4. Korean Chicken (19%)
Korean fried chicken, usually called chicken in Korea, refers to a variety of fried chicken dishes from South Korea, including the basic huraideu(fried) chicken and spicy yangnyeom(marinated) chicken.
Rank 3. Samgyeopsal (29.9%)
Samgyeopsal is a popular Korean dish that is commonly served as an evening meal. It consists of thick, fatty slices of pork belly meat. The meat, usually neither marinated nor seasoned, is cooked on a grill at the diners’ table.
Rank 2. Bulgogi (33.3%)
Bulgogi is a gui made of thin, marinated slices of beef or pork, grilled on a barbecue or on a stove-top griddle. It is also often stir-fried in a pan in home cooking. Sirloin, rib eye or briskets are frequently used cuts of beef for the dish.
Rank 1. Bibimbap (34.8%)
Bibimbap, sometimes anglicized as bi bim bap or bi bim bop, is a Korean dish. The word literally means “mixed rice”. Bibimbap is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul and gochujang, soy sauce, or doenjang.