How to pronounce Mak-guksu

Mak-guksu is written 막국수 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mak̚.k͈uk̚.s͈u/. In plain English letters that is MAHK-gook-soo, 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 Mak-guksu?

Mak-guksu is a noodle dish of South Korea. Where it comes from: Gangwon. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and vegetables. It tastes fresh and sour.

Where Mak-guksu comes from

Mak-guksu 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.

• Gamja-ongsimi 감자옹심이 · Soup & stew · Gangwon

  Gamja-ongsimi is potato dough soup from Gangwon Province: grated potato mixed with potato starch is rolled into small chewy balls and boiled in broth.

• 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 Mak-guksu in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Mak-guksu:

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