Gui (food)


In Korean cuisine, gui or guee is a grilled dish. Gui most commonly has meat or fish as the primary ingredient, but may in some cases also have grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb gupda, which literally means "grill". At traditional restaurants, meats are cooked at the center of the table over a charcoal grill, surrounded by various banchan and individual rice bowls. The cooked meat is then cut into small pieces and wrapped with fresh lettuce leaves, with rice, thinly sliced garlic, ssamjang, and other seasonings. The suffix gui is often omitted in the names of meat-based gui such as galbi, whose name is originally galbi gui.

Types

Meat

Meat-based grilled dishes are collectively called gogi gui.
Gui made with pig or cow's intestines is collectively called naejang gui or yang gui.
Gui made with fish is called saengseon gui that literally means "grilled fish", while grilled shellfishes are called seokhwa gui or jogae gui