How to pronounce Gamja-ongsimi

Gamja-ongsimi is written 감자옹심이 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kam.dʑa.oŋ.ɕi.mi/. In plain English letters that is KAHM-jah-ong-shee-mee, 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 Gamja-ongsimi?

Gamja-ongsimi is a soup or stew of South Korea. Where it comes from: Gangwon. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato. It tastes savory.

Where Gamja-ongsimi comes from

Gamja-ongsimi is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map. See all dishes from Gangwon.

• Dak-galbi 닭갈비 · Main dish · Gangwon

  Dak-galbi is diced chicken marinated in a gochujang-based sauce and stir-fried on a round hot plate built into the table, with sweet potato, cabbage, perilla leaves, spring onion and rice cakes.

• Mak-guksu 막국수 · Noodles & pasta · Gangwon

  Mak-guksu is buckwheat noodles served in chilled broth or the juice of kimchi, topped with sliced kimchi and cucumber, sesame and chilli, with sugar, mustard, sesame oil or vinegar to add.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Gamja-ongsimi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Gamja-ongsimi:

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  Aloo tama, or aloo bodi tama, is a Nepali soup of fermented bamboo shoots, potatoes and black-eyed peas.

• Soto Padang · Soup & stew · West Sumatra (Padang), Indonesia

  Soto Padang is a clear beef soup from the city of Padang in West Sumatra, made without the coconut milk found in many other Indonesian sotos.

• Bidos · Soup & stew · Sápmi (Finnmark), Norway

  Bidos, also written biđos or biđus, is a traditional Sámi meat soup made with reindeer meat and vegetables; a typical bowl has chunks of reindeer with potatoes and carrots in the broth.

• Rössypottu · Soup & stew · Oulu (North Ostrobothnia), Finland

  Rössypottu is a stew from the Oulu region of northern Finland, and locals call it "the pride of Oulu"; it is common elsewhere in the north but little known in the south.