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People
Bibimbap on the Wheel
Will Visit You Soon
People around the world, celebrities included, love bibimbap because the
ingredients are the perfect harmony of taste and nutrition.
Bibimbap is also well known as a healthy food because it contains a variety
ingredients such as vegetables, grains and meat that give us strength.
Unlike other Korean diet foods, you don’t need to prepare side dishes
separately because they all come in one bowl - just mix them up with a spoon or
chopsticks and eat! But even if you want to have bibimbap,
it may be difficult to find a place to buy it. Of course, there are ready-to-eat
bibimbap products on the store shelves and recipes in English, Japanese,
Chinese and Spanish are available on the internet and in books
but, still, it is only in a Korean restaurant that you can really enjoy it.
What if bibimbap came to your neighborhood?
The members of ‘Plusminers’ team:
Kim Su-chan, Kang Sang-kyun,
Kim Myeong-sik, and
Chung Kyu-woon
Four Youngsters Take Bibimbap to the
World
Three young men and a young woman will visit
you with bibimbap. The ‘Plusminers’ team - Kang
Sang-kyun, Kim Myeong-sik, Chung Kyu-woon, and
Kim Su-chan - started their world tour with bibimbap
on April 5th. The first country they went to was
China.
The team’s leader, Mr. Kang explains: “I’ve been
thinking I wanted to do something valuable for two
years and gathered people who shared the same
thoughts. While I was searching for a subject that
would give positive thoughts about Korea to foreigners,
I realized that bibimbap is easy to eat and nutritious,
so it would appeal to people from different cultural
backgrounds.”
They introduce bibimbap as “a better mixture of ingredients.”
For example, sugar and flour by themselves
are not food but if we mix and bake them, it
becomes delicious food - bread or cake. In a similar
way, bibimbap is a perfect mixture of common ingre-
Bibimbap is “A Better Harmony and
Balance”
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