Jokbal

Jokbal is a Korean dish consisting of pig's trotters cooked with soy sauce and spices. It is usually braised in a combination of soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and rice wine. Additional ingredients used can include onion, leeks, garlic, cinnamon, and black pepper. Jokbal is presumed to have originated from braised pork, a local food of Hwanghae-do, where pigs' legs are boiled. The current jokbal is a food that started in Jangchung-dong in the 1960s and is known to have been developed by grandmothers from Pyeongan-do and Hwanghae-do for a living. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became widely known through visitors to Jangchung Gymnasium, where professional wrestling games were frequently held. The etymology of the name Jokbal is disputed. The first presumption is that the word Jokbal is from word 쪽발(Jjokbal) meaning cloven hoof and the word Jjokbal was pronounced softly to sell as menu and became Jokbal. The second presumption is that the Sino-Korean word 족(Jok, Hanja: 足) which means foot and the Korean word 발(bal) which also means foot was written together on a menu for customers who cannot read Korean and it became a single word.

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