How to pronounce Gwamegi

Gwamegi is written 과메기 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kwa.me.ɡi/. In plain English letters that is KWAH-meh-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 Gwamegi?

Gwamegi is a snack of South Korea. Where it comes from: North Gyeongsang. People usually eat it as a snack and late at night. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Gwamegi comes from

Gwamegi is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map. See all dishes from North Gyeongsang.

• Andong jjimdak 안동찜닭 · Main dish · North Gyeongsang

  Andong jjimdak is braised chicken from the city of Andong: chicken simmered with glass noodles, potato, carrot, shiitake and other vegetables in a sauce of soy sauce, syrup and sugar, with fiery Cheongyang chillies for heat.

• Heotjesatbap 헛제삿밥 · Rice dish · North Gyeongsang

  Heotjesatbap means "mock ancestral rite meal".

• Andong soju 안동소주 · Drink · North Gyeongsang

  Andong soju is a traditional distilled soju from Andong.

• Andong sikhye 안동식혜 · Drink · North Gyeongsang

  Andong sikhye is a red, spicy rice drink, quite unlike the sweet sikhye found elsewhere in Korea.

• Andong salted mackerel 안동 간고등어 · Main dish · North Gyeongsang

  Andong salted mackerel, gan-godeungeo, is mackerel preserved with salt and then grilled or braised.

• Hwangnam bread 황남빵 · Dessert · North Gyeongsang

  Hwangnam bread, also called Gyeongju bread, is a small round pastry filled with red bean paste, the filling making up nearly seventy per cent of the cake.

Food of South Korea

Dishes like Gwamegi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Gwamegi:

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  Avgotaracho is salted and dried fish roe, often called the caviar of Greece.

• Karashi mentaiko 辛子明太子 · Snack · Fukuoka, Japan

  Karashi mentaiko is pollock roe cured with chilli, and it is closely tied to Fukuoka's Hakata district.

• Prahok ប្រហុក · Snack · Cambodia

  Prahok is a salted, fermented fish paste and one of the foundations of Cambodian cooking.

• Amplang · Snack · East Kalimantan (Samarinda), Indonesia

  Amplang, also called kerupuk kuku macan, "tiger-claw crackers", is a savoury fish snack that Indonesian sources link with Samarinda in East Kalimantan, from where it became famous across East, South and North Kalimantan and the east coast of Sabah.