Korean cooking ingredients:

Apple vinegar

In Korean this is called “sa gwa sik cho.” The label says it is 100% fermented.

6 Comments:

  1. Debbie

    I am attempting to make persimmon vinegar from a recipe off the Internet. I have been doing alot of shopping at a Korean super market,and bought some persimmon vinegar that I liked very much. I used the vinegar in a home made salad dressing it was good. A woman in the store suggested I buy small black soy beans(dried) and soak them in the persimmon vinegar for 1 week. Then she said eating 1 T, 3 times a day was really good for digestion. My beans are soaking now. I am American. Is this something common in other cultures? I have never heard of it.

    Posted November 30, 2009 at 9:20 am | #
  2. Anonymous

    hi mangchi…

    im so thankful of your website…
    im married to a korean…

    can u teach me how to cook fish as main dish…
    we have so many fish in ref but i only know how to fry…kkk

    can u give me recipe using fishes,,,

    thank u so much

    Posted April 20, 2009 at 6:15 am | #
  3. princessoya28

    Hi there Maangchi, I am Princess, an avid fan of you. I am married to a Korean and have been staying here in Korea for few months. I wonder if you could advice me about korean cooking.

    Ahh. I am a Filipina. In the Philippines we usually use vinegar in preparing our food. How about here? How often do you use vinegar? Does everybody like it?

    Please send me a reply on my email.

    Thank you! More powers!

    Posted March 17, 2009 at 8:23 pm | #
  4. Maangchi New York City
    joined August 6, 2008

    pimky,
    mostly it’s used in side dishes such as seaplant salads, radish salads…

    Posted December 27, 2008 at 8:45 am | #
  5. pimky

    i want to know what is the use of vinegar in korean food? for example in salad, rice???

    Posted December 26, 2008 at 6:48 pm | #

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