○ Ten persons bring a bowl of rice each
   This means several people donate what they have even though it is little in amount.
   ○ Peppered bean paste is most suitable for boiled barley
   This means everything has its own pair.

   ○ The rice cake that looks good is also tasty
   This means everything should be good in its appearance as well as in its content.
   ○ One who had the taste of rice cake eats it
   This means one who knows the real taste of a food eats it with relish.
   ○ Rice cake cannot be eaten and the soup prepared with it is ruined for the cake is not fully done
   This means an undertaking has failed before being implemented.
   ○ What is hateful is the half-done rice cake
   ① This means as one is served with a food which he dislikes and which is half-done at that, he has every reason to reject it.
   ② This means everything has gone wrong with someone.
   ○ The rice cake is before the flower
   This means that rice cake rather than flower is good for a hungry man, and so foods are very important for man in living.
   ○ Rice cake that suits one’s taste
   This indicates a thing which one likes very much.
   ○ Roasting rice cake over the beacon
   This means one has carelessly arranged things to do an impossible task and so a good result cannot be expected. (A beacon is lit to signal an emergency for the country and it is next to impossible to approach it for its fierce flames.)
   ○ To trust someone as if he were rice cake
   This means fully trusting someone.
   ○ The rice cakes are good, and better is the vessel containing them
   This means that the something’s content is good, but what is better is its form.
   ○ As easy as eating rice cake
   This means an undertaking is all plain sailing.

   ○ Empty stomach after eating noodles
   This means one can eat other foods after eating a food quick of digestion.
   ○ Eat noodles
   This indicates “to get married” in a roundabout way, for it has been customary for the Korean to eat noodles at the end of a wedding ceremony.
   ○ He who makes dough-flake soup well makes noodles well
   This mean a man skilful in doing one thing is also skilful in doing similar things.
   ○ As if a coil of noodle strips becomes soft in warm soup
   This means everything is going on smoothly.
   ○ Like a vinegar bottle in a noodle house
   This indicates man who is always on a move like a vinegar bottle that changes hands in a noodle house.

   ○ Some men of small build eat as much adzuki porridge as those of large build.
   ○ Porridge that is fully boiled
   ○ Burning the tongue in hot porridge
   ○ Leftover porridge does not go long.
   ○ Eat even cold porridge while blowing on it.
   ○ It is neither porridge nor rice.
   ○ Urgent is the time when the boiled porridge is being cooled.

   ○ Be polite in your words, and you will get bean curds though you intended to buy bean dreg.

   ○ The soup that is not tasty is too hot.
   ○ Eat loach soup and belch the smell of dragon.

   ○ The taste of meat is in chewing it.
   ○ Eat a chunk of other’s meat, and you have to pay him ten chunks.
   ○ Boil the head, and even its ears are fully done.

   ○ Cleansing the wok at the sight of a fish
   ○ Eating dried Alaska pollack and regretting at poor side dishes later
   ○ Fine bones of small fish hurt.
   ○ All cook croakers on the eighth day of the fourth month by the lunar calendar
   ○ Even though it is rotten, it is Chinese herring.
   ○ Though cheap, the roasted pieces of salted hair-tails are too tasty.
   ○ As thin as sweetfish in the seventh or eighth month by the lunar calendar