How to pronounce Bulgogi

Bulgogi is written 불고기 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /pul.ɡo.ɡi/. In plain English letters that is bool-GOH-gee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Bulgogi?

Bulgogi is a main dish of South Korea. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are beef. It tastes savory and sweet.

Where Bulgogi comes from

Bulgogi is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map.

• Japchae 잡채 · Noodles & pasta · South Korea

  Japchae is a savoury and slightly sweet dish of glass noodles made from sweet potato starch, stir-fried with vegetables, meat and mushrooms, seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil and finished with sesame seeds.

• Gimbap 김밥 · Rice dish · South Korea

  Gimbap, "seaweed rice", is rice seasoned with sesame oil and salt, rolled in sheets of dried laver with fillings such as spinach, pickled radish, carrot, egg, burdock, ham and fish cake, then cut into bite-size slices.

• Samgyeopsal 삼겹살 · Main dish · South Korea

  Samgyeopsal, "three-layer meat", is thick slices of pork belly grilled at the table, usually without marinade.

• Samgye-tang 삼계탕 · Soup & stew · South Korea

  Samgye-tang is ginseng chicken soup: a whole young chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, garlic, jujube and ginseng, then simmered until tender.

• Korean fried chicken 치킨 · Street food · South Korea

  Korean fried chicken, called chikin, is a family of fried chicken dishes created in South Korea, from plain huraideu (fried) chicken to sweet and spicy yangnyeom chicken.

• Kimchi 김치 · Snack · Korean peninsula

  Koreans have salted vegetables for winter for well over a thousand years, but the red kimchi most people picture is younger: chilli peppers only reached Korea from the Americas around the 16th or 17th century.

Food of South Korea

Dishes like Bulgogi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Bulgogi:

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• Rujak cingur · Main dish · East Java (Surabaya), Indonesia

  Rujak cingur is a traditional dish of East Java, above all of the Arek cultural area around Surabaya.

• Svíčková svíčková na smetaně · Main dish · Bohemia, Czechia

  Svíčková na smetaně is beef sirloin marinated and roasted with root vegetables, carrot, celeriac and parsley root, which are then puréed with cream into a smooth orange-brown sauce.

• Liège meatballs boulets à la liégeoise · Main dish · Liège, Belgium

  Boulets à la liégeoise are large meatballs of mixed minced pork and beef from the city of Liège, browned on all sides and then simmered in a sweet-and-sour sauce.