Kimbop (김밥), Symbolism of Korean Food

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BEHOLD THE GIMBOP! (Or kimbop.)

Kimbop. Literal translation: Seaweed Rice, or seaweed meal. Many people think seaweed is just some kind of green stuff in the ocean, but if you cook it twice, and brush some sesame oil and salt onto the seaweed: It's fabulous. Now with that, Koreans made the delicious food favored in picnics. (Cause it's not really like a full meal.)
The main ingredients can differ; of course, you need to have cooked seaweed and rice (COOKED, of course!) Then you can add ingredients like cheese, kimchi, tuna, ham, and cooked eggs.

The ingredients and the wooden mat.

How to make your gimbop:

1. Cut all the ingredients (excluding seaweed and rice) into a long rectangular shape. save the other pieces for more gimbop ingredients.
2. Place the ingredients on the rice, which will be spread around a huge piece of seaweed, which shall be on a wooden mat.
3. Roll the wooden mat for a few minutes.
4. Then cut that roll you have in front of you (10 would be fine.)

And there you have your gimbop!

Since you can choose your ingredients, gimbop has been always popular, fun to make, and diverse. In fact, Korea gave this idea to Japan about 1500 years ago, and that's how Sushi came out to the world!
In the late 20th century, sausage was an interesting and popular ingredient in gimbop; in modern days, there are a lot of kinds of gimbops, such as triangle gimbop (sold a lot in places in 7/11 and other chain corner stores like that.)

Also, there are things called "Gimbop Chains" which is kinda like a fast food restaurant, but the speed is between a normal restaurant and a fast food chain, and it isn't fast food. There are 45,400 of these in Korea, mostly near schools where students can go eat stuff after school.

Have fun making Kimbop!

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