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Kkoedori
Kkoedori () is a South Korean snack food product. Each packet of the food contains many crunchy chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...-coated spheres, that are both savory and sweet. It has been produced since the mid-1980s, although it saw a significant resurgence in popularity by the 2010s, following a trend of younger people becoming interested in old South Korean snacks. See also * ''Apollo'' (candy) – another nostalgia snack * '' Jjondeugi'' – another nostalgia snack References {{Reflist South Korean snack foods Chocolate-covered foods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo (candy)
Apollo (), marketed in the Middle East, South America, and Southeast Asia as CC Stick, is a South Korean candy product. It consists of a number of small, short straws that are filled with flavored sugar powders. Example flavors include strawberry, chocolate, banana, and grape. History The candy was invented in 1969 by Kim Sang-gyu (). In 1965, he founded the company Woolim Confectionary (). One of his popular products was powdered juices. When inventory of powdered juice began to pile up, he came with the idea to package and sell the powder in straws (the original straws had a wider diameter originally, and were filled manually). He tested the product on his children, who loved it. He then named the product after the American Apollo lunar program, which was then landing men on the moon around that time. The product quickly achieved significant popularity, leading him to change the name of his company to Apollo Confectionary () in 1971. The product saw a boom in sales in the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jjondeugi
''Jjondeugi'' (, , or ) is a type of South Korean snack food that was popular around the 1960s to 1970s. It is a fried food made from a variety of ingredients, although namely wheat flour and corn starch. What is shared amongst the varieties is the chewy texture of the food; the food is even named after this chewiness ("" means "chewy"). It is generally sweet or salty or both. It was commonly sold in stationery stores near schools, and was popular as a cheap snack for students. The food has seen a resurgence in popularity as a nostalgia food. It has a significant variety of flavors and regional varieties. Various brands for and flavors of the snack now exist. Flavorings include wasabi, glutinous barley, mugwort, mala, and even ramen soup powder. Sometimes there can be multiple flavorings on different parts of a single piece of ''jjondeugi'' for a varied eating experience. It can be grilled in an oven, over a ''yeontan'', or even in an air fryer. It has been described as an '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chocolate
Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocessed, they taste intensely bitter. In making chocolate, these seeds Cocoa bean fermentation, are usually fermented to develop the flavor. They are then dried, cleaned, and roasted. The shell is removed to reveal nibs, which are ground to chocolate liquor: unadulterated chocolate in rough form. The liquor can be processed to separate its two components, cocoa solids and cocoa butter, or shaped and sold as unsweetened baking chocolate. By adding sugar, sweetened chocolates are produced, which can be sold simply as dark chocolate (a.k.a., plain chocolate), or, with the addition of milk, can be made into milk chocolate. Making milk chocolate with cocoa butter and without cocoa solids produces white chocolate. In some chocolates, other ingredients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Snack Foods
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
