Korean Food Vocabulary: Memorize 199 Dishes, Ingredients and Restaurant Phrases
Memorize Korean food words with 199 flashcards: jjigae, banchan, gochujang, cooking verbs, tastes and restaurant phrases, plus the dish-suffix trick.
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Ordering at a Korean restaurant without words is guesswork. Korean Food Vocabulary (deck code SX3904, 199 cards) fixes that: English prompt on the front, Hangul plus romanization on the back, often with a one-line description of the dish.
Study this deck: Korean Food Vocabulary
1 / 10Rice (cooked)
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
A taste of the cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Kimchi jjigae | 김치찌개 (gimchi jjigae) - Kimchi stew |
| Samgyetang | 삼계탕 (samgyetang) - Ginseng chicken soup |
| Banchan | 반찬 (banchan) - Side dishes |
| Gochujang | 고추장 (gochujang) - Red chili paste |
| Stir-fry | 볶다 (bokda) |
| Chewy | 쫄깃하다 (jjolgithada) |
| More please | 더 주세요 (deo juseyo) |
| One serving | 일인분 (irinbun) |
| Delivery | 배달 (baedal) |
Everything on the menu
Dishes: bibimbap, bulgogi, tteokbokki, japchae, galbi, doenjang and sundubu jjigae, budae jjigae, seolleongtang, miyeok guk, tteokguk, naengmyeon, kalguksu, jjamppong, kkakdugi, mul kimchi, gimbap, songpyeon, haemul pajeon, jokbal, bossam, dakgalbi, gopchang, sundae, sannakji, gejang, gamjatang, gukbap and four kinds of juk. Pantry: ganjang, ssamjang, chamgireum, gochutgaru, dubu, baechu, eomuk, saeujeot. Drinks: soju, makgeolli, boricha, yujacha, sikhye, sujeonggwa. Then table items (jeotgarak, sutgarak), cooking verbs (kkeulhida, gupda, twigida, jjida), tastes and textures (jjada, gosohada, basakhada), meals, and restaurant phrases.
Study tips specific to this deck
Learn the suffixes, not 60 separate dishes. Most dish names are built from a handful of endings: -찌개 (stew), -탕 / -국 (soup), -볶음 (stir-fried, from 볶다), -구이 (grilled, from 굽다), -찜 (steamed or braised, from 찌다), -전 (pancake), -죽 (porridge), -밥 (rice). Make one card per suffix and you will decode menu items the deck never shows you.
Clean up a few cards as you go:
- Card 190 glosses 잘 먹겠습니다 as "Enjoy your meal". It is what you say before eating ("I will eat well"); hosts say 맛있게 드세요.
- Cards 21 and 25 (자장면 / 짜장면) are both standard spellings since 2011: merge them. Cards 7 and 53 repeat samgyeopsal.
- 호박 (card 101, "zucchini") is pumpkin or squash generally, as in 호박죽 (card 75); zucchini is 애호박.
- Card 18 should read 만둣국, and card 159 is romanized seokda.
- 쓰다 (bitter) also means "to write" and "to use"; the taste cards are dictionary forms, so add the spoken ones you will actually hear: 짜요, 달아요, 매워요.
For core grammar around these words (particles, polite endings), continue with our Korean A2 vocabulary guide.
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