In Korea, there are many dishes where you put rice in soup. This is because Koreans mainly eat rice or grains and usually have soup with it. If you go to gukbap (hot soup with rice) restaurants, they usually serve the soup and rice separately. People either eat it by mixing the rice into the soup or having the two separately, eating by the spoonful.
Among these, today we'll be learning more about pork blood sausage soup! While Koreans often crave pork blood sausage soup as a hangover cure after drinking the previous night, in fact, pork blood sausage isn't the main ingredient in this dish. Firstly, pork blood sausage is made by mixing bean sprouts, cabbage, sticky rice andother ingredients with pig's blood, stuffed into a sausage. It's also a food worth challenging yourself to eat if you visit Korea. Although, don't worry if you can't eat pork blood sausages!
Pork blood sausage soup is a pork bone soup with pork's heart, tripe, large intestines and boiled pork slices. If pork blood sausage isn't to your liking, try asking if they can remove it from the order! At many restaurants, it's possible to order without any pork blood sausages.
When you order pork blood sausage soup, you normally also get served with kkakdugi (cubed radish kimchi) and cabbage kimchi (kimchi made of cabbage). You'll also be able to see salt, seasonings, perilla seed powder and other condiments nearby. Pork blood sausage soup doesn't come completely seasoned, so taste it first and then season it with salted shrimp or salt. If you like spicy food, try adding the seasoning paste! It's also good to add the chives and perilla seed powder that comes with it.
Koreans think that eating hot soup after a night of drinking will cure their hangover. Other than pork blood sausage soup, there's also pork rice soup, beef rice soup, bean sprout rice soup and many other types of rice soups, so please try them!
[Jinmi Shikdang / Jinmi Restaurant]
[Keunjip Byeongchun Sundae / Keunjip Byeongchun Sundae Restaurant]
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