Of all the fish in the sea, myeongtae, or walleye pollock, has a special place on the Korean table
Recipe: Maesaengi soup, Jeollanam-do version
This is one of the few soups you’ll eat with chopsticks instead of a spoon.
Maesaengi: a delicate seaweed
Maesaengi (매생이) is an unusual kind of seaweed, one that was eaten mostly along the southern coast of Korea until a recent surge in popularity in the last ten years.