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maekjeok

maekjeok noun: a Korean dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang.

Noun

maekjeok (uncountable)

  1. A Korean dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang.
    • During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over...2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food

Origin of maekjeok

Borrowed from Korean 맥적 (maekjeok).

Questions about maekjeok

What does maekjeok mean?
Maekjeok means a Korean dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang.
What part of speech is maekjeok?
Maekjeok is a noun.

Words near maekjeok in the dictionary

  1. maegbote
  2. maegth
  3. maegthe
  4. maegths
  5. Maek
  6. maekjeok
  7. maelid
  8. maelids
  9. Maelor South
  10. maelstrom
  11. maelstromic

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