Gujeolpan, a food that wraps eight ingredients in a pancake

Gujeolpan is a dish that contains nine dishes, including the center, in an octagonal (octa)-shaped pancake box. 

It is a luxurious dish along with Sinseonro among Korean dishes, and is often used as an appetizer or as a side dish to alcohol.

Foods that arrange ingredients in the five colors (red, yellow, green, white, and black) include Sinseonro and Jeonju Bibimbap.

In this Gujeolpan, instead of wrapping in a pancake in the center, you put almost the same ingredients on top of rice and mix it with gochujang, egg yolk, and sesame oil to make bibimbap.

Gujeolpan is a wooden bowl with beautiful patterns made of lacquer or mother-of-pearl, and contains eight dishes, including vegetables and meat, around the perimeter, and a wheat pancake in the center, containing nine ingredients.

This is the name given to it, and it is the best health food that is beautiful to look at, delicious, and nutritionally balanced.

In the old days, the number nine (9) was considered especially important in the East because it was the last number that reached the extreme as a positive number, and the arrangement reminds us of the eight trigrams of the Book of Changes, which are the essence of Eastern philosophy.

(Meaning: Water)

(Meaning: Fire)

    (Meaning: Heaven)

(Meaninf: Earth)

There are no set ingredients, but strong-smelling green peppers, green peppers, celery, and burdock are not used, and among seafood, shrimp, crab, and squid are blanched and added.

These ingredients are cut into strips, the beef is seasoned with soy sauce, the remaining vegetables are seasoned with salt, and a little green onion and garlic seasoning is added to bring out the color and flavor, and then stir-fried on a baking sheet.

It was also used as a food for the Yudu Festival, the 15th day of the 6th lunar month, and the sliced ​​ingredients were placed on thin wheat flour pancakes baked in a pan and eaten as a wrap.

The gujeolpan is also used on the main table (alcohol and side dishes) or the tea table (tea and snacks), and today, it is used when important guests such as relatives visit the house.

The main table for guests includes dried side dishes such as raw chestnuts, walnuts, ginkgo nuts, jujubes, pine nuts, peanuts, and dried persimmons, and the tea table includes various kinds of gangjeong, jeonggwa, dasik, and suksilgwa, which are arranged in matching colors to create a sense of class and elegance.