How to pronounce Gimbap

Gimbap is written 김밥 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kim.p͈ap̚/. In plain English letters that is GIM-bahp, 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 Gimbap?

Gimbap is a rice dish of South Korea. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and as a snack. Its main ingredients are rice, vegetables and egg. It tastes savory and fresh.

Where Gimbap comes from

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

• Bulgogi 불고기 · Main dish · South Korea

  Bulgogi, "fire meat", is thin slices of meat, usually beef sirloin or rib eye, marinated in soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil and garlic, often with pureed pear, then grilled over a barbecue or on a griddle; at home it is often stir-fried.

• 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.

• 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 Gimbap in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Gimbap:

• Nasi kerabu · Rice dish · Kelantan and Terengganu, Malaysia

  Nasi kerabu is a Malay rice dish from the east coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu, also eaten in the provinces of southern Thailand, where it is called khao yam.

• Risi e bisi · Rice dish · Venice, Italy

  Risi e bisi, "rice and peas" in Venetian, sits between a risotto and a soup: rice cooked in a broth made from pea pods, with plenty of young spring peas, onion, pancetta, butter and Parmigiano, loose enough to eat with a spoon.

• Taco rice タコライス · Rice dish · Kin, Okinawa, Japan

  Taco rice is taco filling served on rice: seasoned ground beef, shredded cheese, lettuce and tomato over a plate of rice, with a tomato salsa.

• Chishang bento 池上便當 · Rice dish · Taitung, Taiwan

  Chishang bento is a railway lunch box from Chishang, a rice-growing township in Taitung County in eastern Taiwan, famous for using local rice and for its thin wooden box.