On a low table sit rice, soup and a row of small side dishes, a pottery jar of spicy cabbage stands in the foreground, a bowl beside it holds cold noodles with sliced meat and cucumber, and a hand cuts a pounded rice cake.
Ethnic Korean Cuisine of China
Rice and pickled cabbage
Introduction
The traditional food of China's ethnic Korean community, built on rice, soups and pickled side dishes.
Ethnic Korean cuisine in China is the traditional food of China's Korean community, found mainly in Yanbian in Jilin and other areas of the Northeast where Korean communities live. Daily meals are built on rice, soup and many side dishes, most of them pickled or dressed, with a spicy taste and frequent use of chili flakes and chili oil. Pounded rice cake is made for festivals and ceremonies, and rice cakes come in more than thirty kinds. Spicy pickled cabbage, cold noodles and pounded rice cake represent the cuisine.