First Kimchi, second Kimbap. If kimchi is the most famous and best known pickled sauerkraut in Korean cuisine, Kimbap - Korean Roll rice is typical for Korean cuisine.
So much so that this land of Cao Ly is also known as Kimchi land, kimbap is probably the second most popular dish in Korea, also a dish that Koreans often recommend to international friends when they visit, live and work away from home.
is the name of the dried seaweed leaves; "BAP" is simply "rice". The name of the dish is very simple, rice wrapped in seaweed leaves. In terms of shape, kimbap "looks" like Maki - also Japanese rice wrapped in seaweed leaves. But if you look more, kimbap is usually bigger (fatter) because inside, the "core" is composed of many different foods. Kimbap is also cut in circles with a thickness thinner than Maki. If the same length of a seaweed plate, Maki were cut into 6 slices, then kimbap could be cut into 12 slices or more.
