Friday, August 8, 2014

Four days in Seoul, 5: Buckwheat dumplings and ginseng soup


Very traditional old-style dinner menu on one of the days in Seoul: lovely buckwheat dumplings filled with chopped wild vegetables; and nourishing chicken and ginseng soup, featuring a whole(very small) chicken cooked in a ginseng broth. Simple, delicious and quite soothing to the stomach as well as we were feeling rather an overdose of chilli from previous meals!

2 comments:

  1. Sounds yummy. Interesting how everyone has their own version of dumplings. I wouldn't mind trying dumplings filled with veggies, but in my mother's chicken soup I am used to having kreplach, a sort of ravioli.

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  2. That sounds pretty delicious too! These particular dumplings were unusual in that you don't often see buckwheat used in Asian cooking--but it used to be quite widely used in Korea apparently.

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