Seon (food)

Seon
Oiseon, made with cucumber and meat.
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeon
McCune–ReischauerSon

Seon (Korean) is a traditional Korean dish made from steamed vegetables such as zucchini, cucumber, eggplant or Napa cabbage and stuffed with meat. Although the term is a counterpart of jjima category of dishes that are made by steaming meat or seafood—the concept is not clearly settled.[1]

Other dishes similar to seon include gajiseon (가지선, steamed eggplant), gochuseon (고추선, steamed chili pepper), donggwaseon (동과선, steamed winter melon), museon (무선, steamed radish), baechuseon (steamed Napa cabbage)[1] and dubuseon (steamed tofu).

  1. ^ a b "Seon (선 膳)" (in Korean). EncyKorea. Retrieved 2008-05-27.