젓가락

Hiya!!


Today was also very very hot day...

I was almost melting!








Yesterday, I ate Samgyepsal with my friend at Korean restaurant near Yu-rakucho.



It was soooooo gooood!!



The name of restaurant is "HAN TEJI YA"
You can find this restaurant not only Yu-rakucho.

Samgyepsal is slice thick pork belly meat.
Wrap it with leaf like lettuce (called sangchu) and EAT:)

I really recommend this restaurant, if you interested in it why don't you try!!

I'm always curious about Korean chopsticks.

Why is it made of metal?and long like that?


so, I did a search!!



The Korean chopsticks is called jeotgarak(젓가락) and it is usually placed together as a set with long spoon called sutgarak(숟가락). This set called Sujeo. Both are made of stainless.

The reason why Korean chopsticks are made of metal is that... there are some reasons.



Reason1:it were made of silver in the past at court because silver cause a chemical reaction and change the color when it touches some poisons, so they use it in order to prevent assassination by poison.


Reason2:regular people longed for aristocracy and they copyed it. So the metal chopsticks(when regular people use it, it's not silver because silver is expensive) became populer.


Reason3:in Korea, it is banned to use disposable chopsticks because they care about the environment and they don't want to make bald mountain any more. Also, it's good moneywise.


Rason4:the metal chopsticks are very tough, so it were very useful during the war because it's not broken and easy to carry about.



The biggest reason may be the first one, but other 3reasons also connect to why metal?

In Japan, we use wood chopsticks. It because(not sure) Japan are very humid so if we use metal chopsticks, it might get rusted. That is why the metal chopsticks didn't become populer in Japan.




AND!!
I found the reason why Korean chopsticks and spoon are long.

Because... Korean people don't hold up dishes when they are eating like Japanese people.
They have different culture. They eat meals leaving dishes on the table.
So!! if the chopsticks and spoon were short, it's hard to eat it!!!

That is why Korean chopsticks and spoon are longer than Japanese one.




Wow, you became better versed in Korean food culture!!
It was very interesting and now I knew there are right reason.
There were some history and environment&economical reason!







It is very good idea to get through this hot summer with hot Korean food; )