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A variety of banchan makes a nutritious meal.<\/strong><\/p>\n By Foong Pek Yee<\/p>\n foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/p>\n A variety of banchan makes a nutritious meal. By Foong Pek Yee foongpekyee@gmail.com \u00a0THE plates of colourful banchan (Korean side dishes) used to fascinate me during meals. In fact I was more excited over the selection than the main dish. According to The Korean Food Foundation, the size of a traditional Korean meal is determined … Continue reading “A lesson on Korean food”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[221,222,220,88,159],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korean","tag-banchan","tag-food-crisis","tag-food-waste","tag-korean-food","tag-side-dish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0THE plates of colourful banchan (Korean side dishes) used to fascinate me during meals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn fact I was more excited over the selection than the main dish.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAccording to The Korean Food Foundation, the size of a traditional Korean meal is determined by the number of “cheop” – vessel used for side dishes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThere are 3- cheop, 5-cheop, 7-cheop, 9-cheop tables; and a 12-cheop table (Surasang) is for the kings!<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is common to have at least three types of banchan for any Korean meal .<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI must say banchan no longer excites me over the years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBut dishes of left over banchan, some untouched,\u00a0 left on dinner tables suddenly came to my mind of late.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is not about food craving.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIt is triggered by headlines on a looming food crisis worldwide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAn average (South) Korean throws away 130 kilograms of food a year, according to Korea’s Ministry of Environment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhile 95% of the food waste is recycled into products like compost and animal feed,\u00a0 food waste is certainly never a good thing to begin with.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce I commented that banchan is more than\u00a0 enough for a meal,\u00a0 and the remark did not go down well .<\/div>\n<\/div>\nKoreans see lavish meals as something to celebrate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd I was told that it is\u00a0 polite not to finish all the food that is offered.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"