Korean Food
Korean food has a delicate simple taste yet they are delicious. Koreans love spicy stuff and they have many things spicy, from chicken feet to pork trotters all the way to the end-trails (like intestine).
Different region around Korea carries their own famous food (but that does not restrict others from selling that food outside of the region though! Thank god for that, we do not have to travel to a certain region exclusively to try the delicacies. Yummy! However convenient it might be, you still get the original taste and authentic ambience when you visit the specific region/province for the food they are famous in.
Gwangju Jeolla-do
전라도
감자탕 (Gamja Tang)
First is the representative of Gwangju, Gamja tang. It has a few meanings actually. The most common thinking is because gamja tang has gamja (which is potato 감자) therefore it is gamja tang. However, the other more authentic and historical saying is that, a long long time ago in Korea, pork spine bone is know as 감자뼈 (gamja bbyeo) and hence the name is 감자탕. The pork spine bone is no longer know as gamja bbyeo and instead if you want to purchase them in Korea, you have to to tell them to give you deung bbyeo (등뼈), which also mean back bone.
Gangwon-do
강원도
Ohchaengyi guksu올챙이국수
Out of the many famous food in Gangwon-do is the tadpole noodles (올챙이국수). Being a mountainous region that has harsh winters, Gangwon-do produces high quality potato, buckwheat & corn. This ohchaengyi (올챙이국수) is made first by cooking and mashing the corn till it has a thick and slurry consistency. After which, the slurry corn is being sieved directly into water (not to remove the impurities but rather to attain the tadpole shape). Think of chendol, the second part of the process is the similar.
This is a panda flavor dessert that is popular in the south east asia know by the name cendol/chendol. The cendol bare some resemblances to the tadpole noodles but they are made of different ingredient. Cendol is made with rice flour flavoured with panda (and usually green colouring) served with coconut milk.
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The noodles looked like tadpole 올챙이 and hence the name, "tadpole noodles".