By Alek Sigley, Tongil Tours founder and postgraduate student at Kim Il Sung University. While living in Seoul for two and a half years I came to much love the South Korean take on American fried chicken. This is known as “chimaek” (치맥). The “chi” is short for “chicken”, and the “maek” comes from “maekchu” (맥주), which means beer. It is called so because the fried chicken is usually eaten as a side dish (anju) to beer. Some sour pickled white radish, cut into cubes and served with the tangy pickle juice, completes the holy trinity. The fried chicken itself is often the “original” (후라이드), unseasoned and unsauced style, served with some tomato sauce (ketchup) and mustard. But other popular styles with more of a Korean twist include the yangnyom chicken, which is covered in red Korean chilli sauce (gochuchang), soy sauce chicken (kanjang chicken), which is marinated in soy… [Read More]
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