Passing through Chobok and entering the center of the heat, now is the season when you need to take care of yourself. At this time, we use summer chicken with eel or chicken. Based on the style of Lee Yeol-chi-yeol introduced earlier, cool cold noodles, plural nights, and red bean shaved ice are added as summer delicacies. It's a hot season full of various styles of food, but no matter what anyone says, Koreans live with 'bapsim'. So prepared. From the old days, the rice paddy town that has caught on to the king's appetite.

Our Korean food divided into stocks and corrosion. Most Asian regions, including South Korea and neighboring China and Japan, are rice cultures that are cooked with rice and side dishes. In Western cultures where bread is eaten, wheat is replaced by rice. We need water to build our staple rice crop. This is why 'irrigation' is needed to water farmland. This required a large number of labor forces and farmers gathered around the waterways to induce community life. This characteristic of the Asian region, which shows cooperation and interdependence, emerges from the stock 'rice farming'. On the other hand, wheat, which grows on bare ground without irrigation, reveals the characteristics of the Western world, which have a strong personal and independent character.

My parents say that they eat “white meat with meat soup” only a few times a year. It means that precious. Now that the world is better, rice consumption has decreased as food is overflowing. However, in the 1970s, when mass production of rice became possible, many wished to eat a single rice.

It is a difficult time for us to imagine that lunches and white kimbap with white rice are easily available at convenience stores.

Like this, rice is a staple food that we eat three times a day. What is so special about Icheon rice, which is said to have been won by King Surat, among the “rices” everyone eats every day? Icheon rice is growing despite the decrease in rice production nationwide. To taste his charm, headed to Chungchungdae.

The road leading to Icheon by way of National Highway No. 3 is followed by restaurants that announce “Icheon Rice Restaurant”. Many famous rice shops, such as Deokje Palace, Icheon Rice Restaurant, and King's Rice Restaurant, are quite popular on weekends and weekdays. When ordered, Icheon rice, which was suggested to the king, is put in a stone-cooker and cooked. Other grains other than rice are white rice. Sometimes black beans enter the house. Like other nutritious rice, the jujube, chestnut, pine nuts, etc. are made only with rice, but the shiny rice itself is sweet and sweet. What side dishes would not be enough to greasy and delicious rice. Precious side dishes are added to this, so it's better to loosen the belt for a while.

How about the sweet rice you eat every day? The rice itself seems to taste the dishes. Asked the owner of Icheon's rice bakery, he chose "large daylight when the sun is abundant and the rice ripens" and "a land rich in nutrients mixed with clay and sand." It would mean that the rice has the optimal natural environment to grow. Since ancient times, this is why rice was chosen as a true beauty. What is important is that Icheon Rice's reputation is not just an old story.

The wage table Icheon rice, familiar to us, was the first rice in Korea to be attached with the wage table in the mid-1990s. The history of Icheon rice, which was on the top of the king's surat statue, is preserved as it is, and the revolutionary work was made to increase the reputation of Icheon rice.
“With the“ Mika ”boom, the leisure life of our people began in earnest. What's the most important thing to play around? Isn't the Geumgang mountain after dinner? As more and more people went to and from the Seoul metropolitan area, one or two restaurants started to be built on Icheon side. At first, we put our side dishes on rice, and as people gathered and restaurants increased, we now have a huge table. ”

Let's go try the Icheon rice meal. If you go to a restaurant specializing in Icheon rice, there are two or three set meals. There is a slight price difference, and the cheapest meals are prepared from 10,000 won to 30,000 won.

There is a slight price difference between restaurants, but no big difference. Appetizers such as porridge, jeon, salad, jelly, and chopped vegetables are similar. There are one or two differences in the main menu such as grilled eel, cutlet stew, gujeolpan, steamed ribs, soy crab, samhab, and smelt sashimi. Still, it is the same that Icheon Dolsot Rice is included in all price ranges.

If you have a particular favorite side dish, you can also add a la carte to the cheapest meal. Most restaurants can be ordered from two or more people

Dolsol rice is tasted according to taste. For those who want to enjoy the rice hot, you can enjoy it while you put it in a stone bowl and enjoy it.

It's only summer left to get hot. If you are tired of the rainy season and the typhoon that blows through the heat, why don't you go for a “bapsim”?

The energy of the tiger rises in a bowl of warm white rice. Whoever said that, Koreans are living with 'bapsim'.

When you're done eating, stop by Sulbong Park, a 15-minute drive away. How about extinguishing while walking through Seolbong Park Lake? You may add cultural life at Woljeon Museum of Art.

Oh, if you know Icheon, the rice district, let's know the rice culture festival that takes place every year. This year, the festival will be held in Seolbong Park for five days from October 21 to 25. Not only rice, but also various attractions such as Namdang Playa and Madang Theater. For some reason, don't forget to eat a bowl of Icheon rice!

1. Nearby restaurants

Deokje Palace: 89beon-gil, Wonjeok-ro, Sindun-myeon, Icheon, Gyeonggi-do / 031-634-4811
Icheon Rice Cookery (Gomijeong): 89beon-gil, Wonji-ro, Sindun-myeon, Icheon, Gyeonggi / 031-634-4813
King's Rice Restaurant: Gyeongchung-daero, Sindun-myeon, Icheon, Gyeonggi / 031-632-3646

http://www.imkumnim.com/

2. Accommodation

Izu Hotel: Icheon Daeseop-ro, Icheon, Gyeonggi / 031-637-8611

http://www.ishotel.co.kr/
Miranda Hotel: Junglicheon-ro, Icheon, Gyeonggi / 031-639-5000
http://www.mirandahotel.com/renewal/index.asp

Jisan Maple Condo: Hawol-ri, Majang-myeon, Icheon, Gyeonggi / 031-638-5940

http://www.jisanresort.co.kr/

※ The above information was updated in October 2015. It may change later, so please check before you travel.
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