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Gimbap

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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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Dietary Suitability
Contains Meat or Poultry 1
Origin Region
Korea 2
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1. Gimbap (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbap (dietary-suitability)
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Gimbap, also romanized as kimbap, is a Korean dish made from bap, vegetables, and optionally, cooked seafood or meat rolled in gim-dried sheets of seaweed-and served in bite-sized slices.
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2. Gimbap (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Korea
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Korea
Korea
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