"korean kitchen" news and stories

Earlier today, I posted about the things that Mom would have for us when we went on road trips in our faithful Buick woodie. One of them was a Korean version of the Japanese sushi roll called futomaki. In Korean, it's called gim-bahp, and usually has meat and vegetables (no raw fish). The rice is the same as sushi rice (sweet and vinegary), and the fillings are the same things that Koreans put in bi-bim-bahp, the spicy mixed rice and vegetable bowl.

"Gim" is the Korean word for the seaweed wrapper, also known as "nori" in Japanese. "Bahp" is Korean for cooked rice. Put them together, and you have some great snacking for the back of the station wagon! Who knows, maybe we'll do a slashfood video short of how to roll these guys!