Bibimbap(비빔밥)

Bibimbap is the most famous Korean food.
I see many food courts in Singapore selling Bibimbap and some airlines serve bibimbap for inflight meals.

When you see bibimbap, it looks nice with colored vegetables and beep. However, you need to ruin that as mixing together to eat.

One of characteristics of Korean food is "mixing".
Koreans like mixing ingredients together. Bibimbap means mixed rice in Korean. You might think it is awful to mix them altogether, because it doesn't look quite nice.
However, as you mix bibimbap you can enjoy original taste of each ingredient and new taste as mix them together with sauce(gochujang).


There are thousands ways of making bibimbap.
It can be differed depending what kind of ingredient put on.
Except for rice and a little bit of meat, variety of vegetables are included in Bibimbap, which makes it healthy food.
Vegetables commonly used in bibimbap include julienned cucumber, zucchini, mu (daikon), mushrooms, doraji (bellflower root), and gim(seeweed), as well as spinach, soybean sprouts, and gosari (bracken fern stems). Dubu (tofu), either plain or sautéed, or a leaf of lettuce may be added, or chicken or seafood may be substituted for beef. For visual appeal, the vegetables are often placed so that adjacent colors complement each other.<source: wikipedia>
In Korea, Jeonju, Jinju, and Tongyeong is especially famous for its version of bibimbap and also other areas in Korea have their own version of bibimbap.

<Variety Bibimbap>

Bibimbap is quite easy to make. You just make rice and put vegetables you like on it. After then, mix that with sauce. You often see heroins in Korean drama put all left over food together in one bowl and mix them together. That is also one kind of bibimbaps.

<Moon Geun Young in drama, " Mary Stayed Out All Night", having bibimbap herself.>

Last, tip for bibimbap. Try mix them together with chopstics, so rice is not crushed and taste better!