Balance is the goal in a Korean meal.

Most Korean meals have many side dishes (called banchan) along with their steam-cooked rice.

It offers both Korean and western meals.

Soups are a common part of any Korean meal.

However, anju is considered different from the banchan served with a regular Korean meal.

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Variety is integral to a traditional bulgogi, and to any Korean meal, for that matter.

But the North Korean meals - they don't even have kimchi!

This is the essential banchan of a standard Korean meal.

What makes Korean meals special is not the foods, but the ritual, where family hierarchy prevails.