korean Hangover soup : Hangover soup lives in Korea, and it is judged to be a traditional Korean food that anyone has eaten at least once, and foreigners tend to like it rather than Koreans. When foreign friends studying Korean at each university’s language school are asked, “What’s your favorite Korean food?” Just as one or two foreign friends always answered, “Hangover soup,” Hangover soup is a traditional Korean dish that foreigners like.
Haejangguk is Hae(解)+Baealjang(腸)+guk if you explain it by solving it. In other words, it’s called Hangover Soup.
It refers to the soup that is eaten to relieve the discomfort of the previous day’s alcohol, and bone hangover soup boiled with pork bones, Seonji hangover soup boiled with Seonji, and bean sprout hangover soup boiled with bean sprouts are famous nationwide.
It tastes good and the amount is suitable for a meal, so there are many people who like it even if they don’t drink at all. Since most hangover soup shops are open 24 hours a day, they are also preferred as late-night snacks. Also, thanks to its salty and spicy taste, unlike the name Haejang, Haejangguk itself is also loved as a snack for soju, makgeolli, and Cheongju. It is also said that drinking is a Korean food that will survive forever as long as it continues in Korea.
In Korea, there is a culture of drinking a lot of alcohol at drinking parties. Due to this culture, hangover symptoms often cause symptoms such as headache, dizziness, vomiting, and loss of appetite the next morning. For this reason, it is common for Koreans to eat hangover soup to relieve hangovers.
It is most effective to eat hangover soup after drinking and before going to bed. The soup of hangover soup has the effect of stimulating appetite and cleaning the body by removing toxins from the body. In addition, unsaturated fatty acids in hangover soup can help blood circulation and promote liver function to help alcohol metabolism.
Also, vegetables and E. coli-suppressing ingredients in hangover soup improve digestion and reduce fatigue. Therefore, hangover soup is considered not only good for hangover but also good for intestinal health.
This is because hangover soup is a very simple and light food. Hangover soup is one of the foods you encounter while traveling or living in Korea because it is a dish that most Korean households can easily make. Also, hangover soup can be an appropriate alternative to help digestion after eating fatty foods or seductive foods such as chicken and pizza. And, it’s because hangover soup is a healthy food. Hangover soup may seem like a simple soup dish, but many people like it because it has health effects such as improving liver function, strengthening immunity, and improving digestion. Also, the vegetables and ingredients used in hangover soup are mostly made up of healthy foods from nature, so they are popular with foreigners who are interested in health. Next, it is because it is related to Korean culture. Korea has a long drinking culture, so it is common to eat hangover soup after drinking. Therefore, eating hangover soup after drinking alcohol while experiencing Korean culture can be an experience that foreigners can enjoy on their trip to Korea.
Foreigners who enjoy hangover soup are also filming a lot of VLOGs through YouTube, and you can see that they are promoting these delicious foods.
Types of Hangover Soup
Since the food does not refer to a specific soup food, various “hangover soups” made with ingredients and recipes have been developed by region, so there are a wide variety of hangover soups, but there are still three or four common things regardless of region.
Seonji Hangover Soup: Hangover Soup made by boiling hard iron blood or pork blood, i.e. Seonji in beef bone broth. The separate rice soup, which is famous for both meals and hangover in Daegu, is also a food that serves this Seonji hangover soup and rice separately. It is good for supplementing various vitamins and coenzymes consumed while breaking down alcohol. Some places boil it with various intestines along with Seonji, and balance it by adding vegetable ingredients such as burdock, bean sprouts, and tofu. It is also a food that people like or dislike because it is mainly made of blood, but among those who know the taste of hangover soup, it is Seonji hangover soup that has the image of hangover soup itself.
Bone Hangover Soup: It is practically the same food as gamjatang because it is served for one person. All you have to do is take the potatoes out of the gamjatang. a hangover soup made by boiling pork backbone. Like Seonji Haejangguk, it often contains Ugeoji. It is a fun food to eat and suck meat from the backbone. There is also a sauce based on mustard or wasabi.
Dried pollack hangover soup/Dried pollack hangover soup: Local food centered on the eastern part of Gangwon-do, where a lot of pollack was caught. In particular, the hangover-relieving effect of dried pollack has been proven over a long period of time, so it boasts national first aid popularity. There is dried pollack hangover soup as a sister product, and unlike other types of hangover soup, it has an excellent light taste, and it is a soup dish good for recovering stamina with plenty of eggs and pollack and eggs.
Bean sprout hangover soup: Boil plenty of bean sprouts in the broth made with anchovies and roll out rice. Depending on the restaurant, some places serve rice separately or boil it with squid or octopus chopped together. And poached eggs are served, and it depends on the person who eats them, but they are often eaten by pouring a few spoons of hangover soup on a poached egg bowl and gently crushing seaweed. Of course, you can dip poached eggs in hangover soup and eat them. It is famous for local food in Jeollabuk-do, especially Jeonju.
Are you enjoying hangover soup, too? For those who haven’t tried it yet, hurry up and try it!
