Type | Dried meat or fish |
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Place of origin | Korea |
Associated cuisine | Korean cuisine |
Similar dishes | Jerky |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 포 |
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Hanja | 脯 |
Revised Romanization | po |
McCune–Reischauer | p'o |
IPA | [pʰo] |
Po (Korean: 포) is thin strips or sheets of dried meat and fish used in Korean cuisine.[1] Po, which is made from meats including beef, pork, venison and poultry; and seafoods including whitefish, eel, squid, octopus, shrimp and crab; is eaten as snack food, banchan (food accompanying bap) or anju (food accompanying sul).[1][2] Po is prepared for traditional occasions such as pyebaek (formal greetings from the newlyweds after the wedding ceremony) and jesa (ancestral rite).[3][4]