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Makkoli

Makkoli is korean tranditional rice wine. 

a mixture of rice grains and boiled water. This combination gives off its milky, off-white color, and sweetness, resulting in about 6.5% to 7% alcohol by volume after its distillation process. It was originally quite popular among farmers in Korea, however, it has recently started to become more popular in cities, especially with the younger generations. Makkoli is popular and commonly consumed while eating pajeon, also known as Korean-style pancakes.

Traditional style

commercial style

Trend

Korean have been drinking Makkoli over 1000 years.

And almost of korean love this especially male but nowaday Makkoli market is drametically changed.

lots of female consume Makkoli because the companies make Makkoli more colourful and sweet.

they add a fruits in to Makkoli like a kiwi fruit it called Makkoli cocktail.

Makkoli diet.

Nutririon of Makkoli :

 Carbohydrates: 54%  protein: 46%  Fat: 0%

Effect :

Makkoli has  more anticancer compound than wine atleast 25times because it is a fermemted food.

How to do:

drink makkoli for a meal once per day.

but it is for short term diet. if people do this too long, they can get alchohol problem.

which food usually serve with Makkoli?

Pajeon - korean traditional pancake.



Pho the traditional food of Vietnamese

Pho can be seen as traditional food of Vietnam. If most of people would say that spring rolls is an icon of Vietnamese, the Pho would be the heart of all Vietnamese people.

There are many kind of Pho. it does not beef, the chooser not only just choosing the beef but also choosing the beef balls, eggs. Pho is very good for health because it contains a lot protein, vitamin and moreover, people has to eat vergetable with Pho so this is very good for health

ASIAN SWEET SOUP

Sweet soup is very popular in some Southern and Eastern Asia countries. It can be a dessert or nosh of some people. Moreover, it can be seen as a herbal meals which help people feel peaceful, comfortable after working day. These are list of popular sweet soups in Asia.

TARO SWEET DESERT

The taro sweet help people get the nice skin. Most of Asia woman love it because it is easy to cook and it can be seem as natural cosmetic very good for skin and health.

                                                             

Sweet Mung Bean Soup

This soup is easy to cooking. People just take 3 hours to cook it. It is very popular dessert dinner in Vietnam and in summer too because they can be eaten with ice. Mung bean can crack the fever and control the blood heat.                                  

                                                                       

Lotus seed soup

It used to be a dessert meal of Royal Asian countries because the lotus flower was icon of Kings. Nowadays, lotus also seems as icon of some Asia countries such as Vietnam, Thai or China and so on. 

sam bo luong soup

It was mixed up between 6 herbal fruits. It is good for health, brain,heard and also seem like as Mung Bean it is the popular meal in summer. However, It is hard and lost a lot of time for cooking it.

       

 

Herbal eggs tea

In some way, it also a kind of sweet soup but its real name is herbal tea. Its root is Chinese sweet soup which was cook between oolong tea, chicken eggs and sugar. It can call as Asian coffee because of keeping mind waking up.

                                 

Rice cake

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Rice cake is Korean traditional food

Korean people have been shared neighors and friends on occasions of happiness.
there are various shape, content, and colour from each region.
this is korean soul food.

Type.

1. steamed - rice grains are first ground and steamed on a cauldron

2. Pounded - glutinous rice is pounded finely and it becomes sticky after steaming. It is then stuffed with bean flour

 

3. Shape - powered glutinous rice or millet is first kneaded and shaped, then it is steamed and stuffed with red beans, sesame seeds, or soybean flour

Sake

Sake or Saki is Japaness national rice wine.there are some traditional way to serve sake.it is not necessary to outside but it is still important to know as a polite manners.

How to serve sake?

firstly, people have to understand about sake kit.

1. Tokkuri - Ceramic flask used to warm and serve sake, with a narrow neck for retaining heat. Tokkuri come in all shapes and sizes. Click here for a pictorial guide to tokkuri shapes

2. Ochoko - Small sake cups of countless variety, color and shapes. Cup typically broadens at neck to allow the fragrance of the sake to waft gently upward.

3.Guinomi - Small cup often fluted at the edge - a bit bigger than ochoko. Great fun to collect as works of  art.

4. Masu - A square cedar box holding 180ml originally designed as a rice measure. Most people no longer drink from masu, as the smell and flavor of the wood overpower the delicate flavors of today's premium sake

Sake is served in a tokkuri.

Place the full tokkuri in boiling water until it is about body temperature.

Only very expensive sake is served chilled.
Hold the tokkuri with both hands palms facing down.

Fill each guest's cup in turn.

Don't fill your own. It's the guests' duty to ensure that the host's cup is full.
The correct cup to use is a ochoko.
In formal situations you should hold up the cup with one hand, and support the bottom of it with the other as the sake is being served to you

Vietnamese spring rolls

Vietnamese spring rolls is popular meal in over the world. People just need to 20 minutes to clean vegertable, carrot and make prawn, meat and take 1 minute to roll it. spring rolls can be seen as a kind of fresh food because it contain vegertarian, seafood and meat without oil, fat so it is very good for health.

This is the picture show the steps to roll a fresh sping rolls.

Recipe( the information was collected from Internet)                                     

There are 2 parts : sauces and spring rolls

sauce

                                                                                                         

2 tablespoons sugar                                                                         

1.5 tablespoons lime juice

2 tablespoons fish sauce1 teaspoon garlic, chopped

1/2 teaspoon small red (birdseye) chilli, chopped

Mixing sugar, lime juice, fish sauce together and then give some galic and chilli and stir it up.

Spring rolls

100g green prawn meat, chopped

Salad and rice noodle

1/2 cup carrot, grated

4 shallots (spring onions), sliced finely lengthways

8 sheets dry rice paper.

We will steam seafood, meat and chooped it.
We spray water into rice paper make it soft and then put salad first and then put rice stick noodle after that putting carrot slide, seafood and meat together. Finally, we just need rolls it.