About Hongeo (fermented skate) Featured In Netflix "Culinary Class Wars : Season 1 Ep5"
About Hongeo (fermented skate) Featured In Netflix "Culinary Class Wars : Season 1 Ep 5" Netflix's "Culinary Class Wars" has reached global #1, capturing worldwide attention. I'll explain one of the series' episodes featuring hongeo (fermented skate), a dish that offers foreigners a unique culinary experience. I'm an ordinary office worker like many of you, not a fish expert or chef. This story is about the hongeo dishes that average Koreans experience and that you can try when visiting Korea. Introduction to Hongeo Hongeo is a type of ray fish. There are two kinds in Korea: Chamhongeo: Mainly eaten fermented, about 1.5m long. Ganjaemi: Eaten fresh or as a salad, about 0.5m long. You can tell them apart by their size and nose shape - chamhongeo has a thinner, pointier nose. It's easy to distinguish male and female hongeo: Females are larger with a single tail. Males have reproductive organs on both sides of their tail. Importantly, females taste...