How to pronounce Moju

Moju is written 모주 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mo.dʑu/. In plain English letters that is MOH-joo, 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 Moju?

Moju is a drink of South Korea. Where it comes from: North Jeolla. People usually eat it for breakfast. Its main ingredients are rice. It tastes sweet and spicy.

Where Moju comes from

Moju 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.

• Chueo-tang 추어탕 · Soup & stew · North Jeolla

  Chueo-tang is loach soup, made with the pond loach, a small freshwater fish of rice paddies and swamps.

• 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 Moju in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Moju:

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  Shaoxing wine is a huangjiu, or Chinese yellow wine, from Shaoxing in Zhejiang.

• Awamori 泡盛 · Drink · Okinawa, Japan

  Awamori is a distilled spirit made from rice that is unique to Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands.

• Apong · Drink · Arunachal Pradesh, India

  Apo, or apong, is a rice beer made by fermenting rice, found among the Tani tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.