In terms of good health, Koreans have the advantage of three secret weapons. What is your secret to strong health?
Kimchi
Kimchi Jar.
First of all is Kimchi. Korea has unique and very healthy dishes that are very healthy.
The main accompaniment to any dish (including breakfast) is Kimchi, a spicy accompaniment made from cabbage, radish, spicy red chili, garlic, and other ingredients. Koreans like their kimchi.
There is even a Kimchi museum in Seoul that shows more than 40 varieties. Kimchi was originally developed as a way to preserve vegetables for use throughout the year.
Its nutritional value is scientifically proven. Lactic acid which is successful in the fermentation process successfully eliminates harmful bacteria and alleviates digestive disorders.
Salt and vegetable juices help cleanse the intestines. Kimchi reduces hyperacidity resulting from too much meat and other acidic foods. Restored because it restores the immune system, helps restore scars, reduces cholesterol, restores the aging process and prevents cancer.
In fact, this is an amazing food, rich in minerals, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and iron. He is credited with being protected Korea against SARS and the influenza epidemic that has hit other parts of Asia in recent years.
If you like vegetarian food, the right place in Seoul to open Kimchi is Sanchon restaurant, a place visited by former Buddhist monks who provide Korean temple cuisine.
Sitting on a wooden floor with a heater on a low table, you can choose delicious dishes in a beautiful traditional interior courtyard. At night, drumming and cultural performances add to the atmosphere.
Flower Bop.
The experience of enjoying a healthy and unusual can be enjoyed at Herb Land Dr. Sangsoo in Cheongwan - Gun, a few hours south of Seoul.
"HERB can be an acronym for health, eating, talking and being beautiful," explained the brochure and Dr. Sangsoo tried to put all this not into the plate, Bunga Bop.
This is a very tasty combination of rice, chili paste, spices, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sesame oil, with fresh flowers from herbaceous plants that grow in their vast greenhouses.
On the beautiful island of Jeju, one hour's interaction to the south of Seoul, special seafood is provided with Kimchi, of course.
Older women dive without the help of diving equipment to collect abalone, sea slugs, octopuses, sea cucumbers, and others from the seabed.
This female couple sells their match results on the sandy beach in front of Lotte Hotel. Abalone is cut alive and eaten raw, chewy with a mild taste of sea water.
This seafood may not suit everyone's taste, but it does not suit the tastes of women. Swimming divers on the island for more than a few decades and can still survive for several minutes while diving in this frequently occurring waters.
Ginseng
The second secret weapon is Ginseng or Insam, as it is known in Korea. The roots of this magic herb grow in several countries, but it is known that the Korean version is the most powerful and useful.
The small town of Geumsan is located in the heart of the Ginseng cultivation area and has a Ginseng shopping street with 1,300 stores and wholesale markets for raw Ginseng, where 8,000 tons are sold every year.
What are the benefits of ginseng?
According to the Geumsan Insam Exhibition Hall, "it has been praised as natural Viagra among parents, preventing Alzheimer's disease, giving a young age, improving high blood pressure and having an effective effect against cancer."
Ginseng takes four to six years to sell, it's not surprising that ginseng has a high price.
One 500 g package The valuable red inserts can be worth between US $ 100-300 (RM407-RM1,221). Ginseng is sold in edible, drinkable or medicinal forms.
Koreans consume large quantities and supermarkets or toll road service stations will sell Ginseng tonic bottles to revive tired ones. High-ginseng chicken soup is a popular dish in a restaurant.
With a simple and bitter taste, ginseng must be consumed with honey or other strong costumes to make it delicious.
Jjimjilbangs (Sweat Room)
Koreans have enjoyed hot springs and baths for centuries, but the third secret weapon, Jjimjilbang, has only existed since the late 1990s.
Unique in Korea, jjimjilbangs use thermotherapy to eliminate waste and toxins, increase metabolism and improve relaxation.
They are very popular with stressed office employees, housewives and grandmothers who enjoy relaxing and chatting while doing their bodies well.
Couples meet in these places and parents bring their children. There are more than 1,800 in this country and some have various facilities.
The curious name of Dong Bang Sak Leports in Daejeon city is spread over seven floors and includes various types of steam and sauna rooms, hot and cold soaking pools, swimming pools, fitness centers, rest rooms, hairdressing salons, beauty and nail salons, children's play areas - children, PC games rooms, dance floors, cafeterias, bars, and free movie projections.
But it is the steam bath itself that makes the Jjimjilbang novel experience. In Dong Bang they are a series of large cabins with round windows (like Fred Flintstone's house) and each has a different interior.
There are yellow clay rooms, amethyst rooms with purple crystals embedded in the ceiling, rooms with jade floors, Ginseng steam room, etc. Temperatures vary from high to low and it is assumed that each room provides different health benefits.
Customers receive matching clothes and shorts, and both sexes can be mixed in all facilities, except a separate sauna and dressing floor.
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