This boiled rice is the wonderful national dish which resulted from our ancestors’ creative wisdom and assiduity. In the past times, it was also called “rice hash” and so on. “Rice hash” means the mixture of the several dishes
The flower dish means that the different kinds of dishes are placed over the boiled rice harmoniously, which looks like a flower.
The boiled rice with assorted mixtures was refered to in the book “Siuibang” written at the end of 1800s but since the used ingredients and precessing method are very detailed and our people have used it as the staple food for a long time, we can see that its history is very long.
Since the old times, our people have put the boiled rice with assorted mixtures in the brass tableware or large bowl and eaten it with the watery kimch made of sliced radish or warm soup flavoured with soy. And when the several people had meal together, they mixed the boiled rice and the different kinds of side dishes. Like this, the boiled rice with asserted initures is one of simple dishes which give the people the kind and informal feeling. There are two stories regarding its origin.
One is associated with the diligent working life of our people.
In the ancient times, our farmers worked diligently in the paddy and unpaddy fields from the early marning to the late evening ing the sowimg season. The women used to go out to the fields with the lunch box and snack of their husbands.
What was the trouble for them was that the side dishes ran out of the vessels whenever they moved their steps. So they mixed the rice and side dishes together. This developed gradually into the national dish.
The other is associccted with our people’s old custom.
They used to mix the stale dishes and rice together at the watch night meeting the New Year. Such stories show the clever, meticulous life customof our people and housewives.
In particular, the boiled rices with assorted mixtures of Haezu, Zinzn and Zonzn areas was famous.
One of Haezu was called Haezu rice mixed with spices and it contained much bracken grown on
One of Zonzu had the slices of raw fish over the boiled rice as well as the other side dishes and was served with the ox blood soup.
One of Zonzu contained the bean paste of 3 years old, bean sprouts and egg and was mixed with the ox’s head soup whose fat was all removed.