Yasik
South Korea's midnight snack culture is known as yasik.
Korea's top yasik favorites include: ramyeon (라면), typically eaten with kimchi, chicken and beer (chimaek, 치킨, 맥주), jokbal and bossam (족발, 보쌈), tteokbokki and sundae (떡볶기, 순대), gungoguma (roasted sweet potatoes) and hoppang (군고구마, 호빵).[1] Kimbap and jokbal is also popular. Past favorites, now less popular, include memilmuk (buckwheat jelly) and chapssaltteok (rice cakes filled with sweet beans).[1]
Fried chicken, first introduced in Korea in the 1980s, and pizza also top the list of night-time favorites. Fried chicken, in particular, has become a wide market, with chicken restaurant chains continually developing new sauces and wooing various Hallyu stars to promote their respective brands. Of course, no late-night chicken order would be complete with a cool pitcher of draft beer.[1]
External links
- Hannie Khanh-Ngo, 2015-11-23 | 세계화 1순위는 치맥, 파전·막걸리, 외국인 유학생들이 본 한국 음식
- 경향신문 주영재 기자, 2015-11-11 | 한국인 ‘라면 중독’?···1인당 5일에 1개, 세계 1위 소비(Globalization chimaek 1 rankings, rice wine, foreign students are the Korea Food)
- 오경진 인턴기자, 2015-06-14 | “치맥 드셔 보셨어요?”… 한국 치킨 처음 먹어 본 영국인들의 반응은?
- 동아일보, 2014-09-19 | 한국은 ‘야식의 나라’…한해 15조 원 규모(South Korea, the country's supper ... only 15 trillion won sizes) *By Steven Huang, 2011-10-12 | Introducing yasik - Korean night snacks
References
- 1 2 3 "Koreans’ Love of Yasik—where delivery is just a phone call away". visitkorea. Retrieved 14 December 2015.