How to pronounce Momguk

Momguk is written 몸국 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mom.ɡuk̚/. In plain English letters that is MOHM-gook, 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 Momguk?

Momguk is a soup or stew of South Korea. Where it comes from: Jeju. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are pork and vegetables. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Momguk comes from

Momguk is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map. See all dishes from Jeju.

• Gogi-guksu 고기국수 · Noodles & pasta · Jeju

  Gogi-guksu means "meat noodles": wheat noodles in a broth of pork and pork bones seasoned only with salt, topped with slices of boiled pork and chives.

• Omegi-tteok 오메기떡 · Dessert · Jeju

  Omegi-tteok is a rice cake found only on Jeju Island.

• Bing-tteok 빙떡 · Snack · Jeju

  Bing-tteok is a Jeju rice cake that is really a thin buckwheat pancake: buckwheat batter is fried in pork fat and rolled around seasoned shredded radish.

• Jeonbok-juk 전복죽 · Rice dish · Jeju

  Jeonbok-juk is abalone porridge: rice cooked slowly with abalone and often its innards, called gewu in the Jeju language, which turn the porridge pale green and rich.

• 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.

Food of South Korea

Dishes like Momguk in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Momguk:

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• Lotus root and pork rib soup 排骨藕汤 · Soup & stew · Hubei, China

  Lotus root and pork rib soup is the most famous of Wuhan's slow-simmered soups.

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  Kwaśnica is the sour cabbage soup of the Polish highlanders, the górale of the southern mountains.

• Klachelsuppe · Soup & stew · Styria, Austria

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