Gimbap is a Korean dish of cooked rice and vegetables, often with cooked seafood or meat, rolled in gim, dried sheets of seaweed, and sliced into bite-sized pieces. Common fillings include pickled radish, ham, beef, egg strips, kimchi, spinach, carrot and burdock root, and the rice is typically seasoned with sesame oil rather than the vinegar used in Japanese sushi rice. Its origins are debated: one account traces it to Japanese makizushi introduced during the 1910 to 1945 occupation of Korea, when the term first appeared in a 1935 Korean newspaper, while another points to earlier Korean traditions of wrapping rice and side dishes in seaweed. Either way, gimbap has become a distinctly Korean dish in character and preparation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Is gimbap the same as a Japanese sushi roll?
Not quite: gimbap rice is seasoned with sesame oil, sushi rice with vinegar.
No. Gimbap resembles a sushi roll, but Taste magazine reports that the two differ culturally and in the rice. Gimbap rice is seasoned with sesame oil and is more savory, while sushi rice is vinegar-based. The same article says gimbap is Korean and sushi is Japanese.
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Gimbap ( ; Korean: 김밥; lit. 'seaweed rice'; IPA: [kim.p͈ap̚]), also romanized as kimbap, is a Korean dish made from bap (cooked rice), vegetables, and optionally, cooked seafood or meat rolled in gim-dried sheets of seaweed-and served in bite-sized slices.
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Gimbap ( ; Korean: 김밥; lit. 'seaweed rice'; IPA: [kim.p͈ap̚]), also romanized as kimbap, is a Korean dish made from bap (cooked rice), vegetables, and optionally, cooked seafood or meat rolled in gim-dried sheets of seaweed-and served in bite-sized slices.
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This theory is supported by a newspaper from 1935, in which the term gimbap first appeared in Korea.
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