How to pronounce Chueo-tang

Chueo-tang is written 추어탕 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tɕʰu.ʌ.tʰaŋ/. In plain English letters that is CHOO-uh-tahng, 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 Chueo-tang?

Chueo-tang is a soup or stew of South Korea. Where it comes from: North Jeolla. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are fish and vegetables. It tastes spicy, savory and rich.

Where Chueo-tang comes from

Chueo-tang is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map. See all dishes from North Jeolla.

• Bibimbap 비빔밥 · Rice dish · Jeonju

  Bibimbap simply means "mixed rice": a bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, often beef and an egg, all stirred together with chilli paste just before eating.

• Kongnamul-gukbap 콩나물국밥 · Soup & stew · North Jeolla

  Kongnamul-gukbap is soybean sprout soup with rice in it, seasoned with salted shrimp and topped with spring onion and chilli.

• Moju 모주 · Drink · North Jeolla

  Moju is a cloudy rice drink.

• 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.

• Tteokbokki 떡볶이 · Street food · Seoul

  Tteokbokki started as a court dish: cylinders of rice cake stir-fried with beef and vegetables in soy sauce, recorded in royal kitchens of the Joseon dynasty.

• Seolleongtang 설렁탕 · Soup & stew · Seoul

  Seolleongtang is ox bone soup: leg bones, brisket and other cuts of beef simmered over a low flame for many hours, sometimes a whole day, until the broth turns milky white and cloudy.

Food of South Korea

Dishes like Chueo-tang in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Chueo-tang:

• Chankonabe ちゃんこ鍋 · Soup & stew · Tokyo (sumo stables), Japan

  Chankonabe is the hot pot eaten every day in sumo stables.

• Waterzooi Gentse waterzooi · Soup & stew · East Flanders, Belgium

  Waterzooi is a creamy stew-soup from Ghent, often called Gentse waterzooi.

• Egusi soup ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí · Soup & stew · Southern Nigeria, Nigeria

  Egusi soup is thickened with ground melon seeds, which turn creamy and slightly nutty as they cook.

• Dinengdeng · Soup & stew · Ilocos, Philippines

  Dinengdeng, also known as inabráw, is a traditional vegetable dish of the Ilocos region and a staple of Ilocano cooking.