Any Koreans/Korean Food expercts Out there?

Being Korea, it is EXTREMELY hard to try to calculate calories for the various dishes my family prepares, and if your KOrean you probably feel my pain.

Thus i ask all of you.......

How many calories is there/are there in

"Korean Nori"/Roasted Seaweed/"Keem"

My mother made home made "sheets" today by brushing Sesame Oil and Salt on the plain pieces of seaweed and then baked it for a bit.

However being home-made the seaweed had a lot of sesame oil, which is HIGH in calories (130 calories per tablespoon) so XD i need your opinion

You can try putting the ingredients your mother uses into the recipe analyzer.  Can you estimate how much sesame oil and salt she uses when she makes this?  I cook a lot of ethnic foods and this is how I estimate the calories.

Is it kim-gu-ee?  Looks like 4 kcal per gram.

If you read and write Korean, I recommend this page: http://www.diet.co.kr/calorie.asp, where you can look up almost any Korean food you can think of.  Obviously homemade stuff varies, but it shuld give you a good idea.

I teach in Korea and use this site to calculate the school lunch every day. :)

Is such a resource available in English for people who love Korean food (especially various pickled salads, dried seaweed, and pancakes) but do not speak the language?

Not that I know of, unfortunately. :(

I'm Korean and having a tough time with the calorie counting thing.  I've been putting stuff into the recipe analyzer and using the closest ingredients listed. 

I wish they had stuff like gojujang on there and rice sticks for dukbokgi, which by the way are probably not the best things to eat.

I can't read or write Korean so that website wouldn't work for me either. 

However, I'm headed to Korea in June!  The first time in over 25 years!  I'm so excited just thinking about it!

Ok, since it seems like there is some interest in this, and I'm already doing it for myself, I could put up some information in English on my soon-to-debut website.  :)  I even found a nice script that will let me keep all the information in a spreadsheet so I can update it often.

Let me know what foods you are looking for, and hopefully I can have something up in a few days.

Hey i looked at the Korean sight and although I can read Korean phonetically, that didn't really help much cause i couldn't search because my computer doesn't support hangul characters. I was wondering what would be in standard bibimbap with one fried egg. thanks if any body can help!

Site says one 420g portion of bibimbap has 536 kcal.  Bibimbap varies a lot though, you might want to try the recipe analyzer and see what it comes up with.  Also 420g is a huge portion size, that's almost one pound of food!

BTW, I mentioned it before in a new thread, but my personal Korean Food Calorie List is posted for anyone who needs that info.  Always open to suggestions of new items, as well. :)

Thank you so much, i guess i must have missed the announcement in the new thread, sorry. That sounds like quite alot of calories, i agree, but better to over estimate in these things i spose.

I must say though that After spending a few months teaching at summer camps in Korea i am amazed though that you have to worry about the calories in you school cafeteria, i certainly found it really difficult to eat enough that i liked in the uni cafeteria we were forced to eat at!! (although in general I do like Korean food, it was just the weird 'western korean' mix we were fed that was not so great) thanks again.

Well, I teach at a middle school, so maybe the food is different?  It's not really "fusiony" most of the time.  Typical lunch for me would be a cup of rice, 1/2 cup of soup, some kind of meat dish like dalkgalbi or tangsuyuk or something, a veg thing, and kimchi.  If it's tangsuyuk day, that can easily be a 600 calorie lunch!  Luckily at my school, teachers help themselves so I can control the portion size better. :)

Now that I think of it, I did my teacher training at the teacher's college in Cheongju, and that food was not really that great, and pretty repetitive too.  I think they were trying to tone it down for the foreigners. :P