- Anchovy of Gijang
- Best side dish for boiled down anchovy
- Good to eat as raw status with red pepper paste

Vinegarded raw octopus

The octopus is a mollusk belonging to small octopus family and has the highest intelligence amongst the mollusks. That might be why the alien in science novel looks like octopus shape. The octopus has plenty of taurine, one kind of amino acid. Taurine facilitates the growth of brain and the retina function of eye. Also, it helps the recovery of fatigue and reduction of cholesterol in the blood. Taurine composes 50% of free amino acid in heart tissue of a mammal, controls cardiovascular system and has an important role for excitability tissue. In addition, it functions osmotic pressure control, protection of cell membrane and acidproof effect.
The octopus has been provided in King's dinner table, king's feast table and ceremonial occasions always. Scrub an octopus with salt, draw it through hands from up to down, wash out and boil it. When it is cooked enough as a chopstick is inserted, put it in a cold water and cut aslant. Wash raw brown seaweed with salt water, boil in hot water slightly and cut. Pickle cucumber with salt and cut in a big strip. Infuse sea tangle and make sweet and saur water by putting salt, soy sauce, garnish and sugar. Lay brown seaweed down on plate, put cucumber and octopus and top sugar and vinegarded water over it.

The brown seaweed has abundant iodine. The iodine is the essential component to make Thyroxine, a hormone of thyroid gland. Thyroxine improves the activity of kidney and blood vessel, control of body temperature and sweat and metabolism. Vinegarded raw octopus is the food to make the vigorous metabolism of our body, which has been shrunk during winter by obtaining protein and kalium from octopus, fibrous cell and calcium, Vitamin A and C from brown seaweeds.
(Yung-Sil, Han, Professor of Food and Nutrition Dept of Sook Myung Womans University, Head of Institute of Korea Traditional Food)