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“Gimbap” is eaten by putting rice, egg, zidan, pickled radish, cucumber, and burdock on top of seaweed, rolled up and cut into bite-sized pieces. Depending on the ingredients in it, it has a rich texture and unique flavor. Gimbap is popular as a picnic lunch box or a meal in a busy everyday life because it is an easy way to prepare a meal. There are various types of gimbap, from dainty-sized gimbap for kids to nude gimbap with rice on the outside, so it's fun to choose and eat. Let's go on a gimbap pilgrimage all over the country with a gimbap map!

Shikishin released the “National Gimbap Taste Map,” which analyzed big data based on user reviews and evaluations until January 2019, for 3.7 million users.

Shikshin's '2019 National Gimbap Taste Map' includes a total of 40 gimbap restaurants located in Seoul, Gyeonggi & Incheon, Gangwon, Gyeongsang, Chungcheong, Busan, Jeolla, and Jeju.

If you look at the selected major restaurants, you can see that they include places that have gained a lot of popularity due to famous media coverage, as well as stores recommended by locals. Jeonju's “Oh Seon-mo Traditional Gimbap”, Jeju's “Friendship Center”, and Pyeongtaek's “Popular Gimbap” are places where you can find unique gimbap with carrots, saury, and shiraegi as the main ingredients.

Also, places that boast plenty of filling ingredients that make you feel full even after eating just one line have made a name for themselves, such as Sokcho's “Choi Dae-seop Dae-bak Gimbap”, Mokpo's “Yi Soon-i Gimbap”, and Anyang's “Beer Gimbap”.