Today's Menu #5: Tuna Kimbap (참치김밥)

I've seen the meme about kimbap being described as sushi rolls? Japanese rolls? something like that. It annoyed me, so I made tuna kimbap today.

Kimbap is kimbap (or gimbap). Japan didn’t even know how to make laver for kimbap, how can it be Japanese food? Rolls are a relatively recent trend, whereas Koreans have been eating kimbap for a long time. Koreans first started farming and processing laver seaweed to eat kimbap. SK is still the unrivaled production site for laver.

Can we stop calling all East Asian food Japanese food?😑 Korea, China, and Japan have historically and politically tense relationships. The only times we seem to be on the same side is when we face racial discrimination from Westerners?🤔

Of course I have no bad feelings toward ordinary individuals or their cultures. This is only about national interests and historical issues.

Still, kimbap is kimbap! Calling kimbap anything else is like Italians being annoyed by Iced Americano. Or like putting pineapple on pizza?😬

Gonna post the process shots tomorrow..🥱 Translating into English is such a drag. But if it weren't for this inconvenience, I would probably be writing about 100 posts a day.😅

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