Naengguk

냉국

Naengguk (냉국) or chilled soup refers to all kinds of cold guk (국, soups) in korean cuisine, mainly eaten in summer. it is so called changuk, which literally means "cold soup" in pure korean, while the term naengguk is a combination of a hanja word and a pure korean word with the same meaning.the first historical record on naengguk appears in a poem written by yi gyu-bo (1168–1241), a high officer of the goryeo period (918–1392). in the poem, naengguk is referred to as sungaeng, which literally means sunchaeguk, soup made with sunchae (brasenia schreberi). yi praised its clear and plain taste, saying it made usual dishes seem vulgar.naengguk is largely divided into two categories according...

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