Specialty Dishes · Season 12 · Season of Summer V

Mineo-tang

Mineo-tang (Croaker Soup for the Dog Days) · 민어탕

Difficulty: Medium
Time to plan: 50 min
Serves: 3 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This croaker soup cooks prepared fish pieces with radish and zucchini in a clear broth. Its seasoning differs from a heavily red-seasoned seafood stew.

Establish whether pieces include head and bones or are filleted. Fish size is not proof of a health benefit or a universal quality ranking; separate bones and compare the flesh with the broth.

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Ingredients (3 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Croaker, cut with frame	700g	Large yellow croaker (a class below)
Korean radish	1/4	Daikon
Zucchini	1/2	Dried gourd
Scallion, garlic, ginger	A little	Anywhere
Rice-rinsing water	6 cups	Water with kelp
Soup soy, salt, pepper	To season	Anywhere

Step by step

1.Prepare the fish
Scale and clean the croaker, cut into steaks, salt lightly, and rest 10 minutes.
2.Start the radish broth
Simmer sliced radish in rice water until translucent.
3.Simmer the croaker
Add the steaks and ginger, simmer 15 minutes over medium heat, skimming foam.
4.Season and add squash
Season with soup soy and salt, add zucchini and scallion, and simmer 5 more minutes.
5.Serve in the pot
Serve bubbling in an earthenware pot with pepper and rice.

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Yeongnan Hoetjip

Croaker Street, Mokpo, South Jeolla

전남광주통합특별시 목포시 번화로 42-1 (만호동)Checked 2026.08.09

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Mokpo Croaker Street

Manho-dong, Mokpo, South Jeolla

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The fictional face of this dish

Fire element · a sharp, vivid face

Like the great fish whose name carries the character for 'the people,' you feed and raise people up in the most exhausted season.

Upright: The old ranking says: for dog-day eating, croaker soup is first class, sea bream second. On the hottest day, serve your body the best thing. Summer is beaten by feeding, not enduring.

Reversed: The croaker is a one-season fish, yet you chase tonics all year round. Even nourishment has its appointed time. If every day is a dog day, then no day is. Live on plain rice strength, and eat grandly when the day comes.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

That space between your brows opens wide: a face that lives up to its name. Do you know what mineo means? A fish written with the character for 'the people.' It climbed onto the king's table and into commoners' dog-day pots alike, feeding high and low. The breadth between your brows is that breadth, receiving people without checking their rank. That width is why they seek you out every summer.

That sturdy jawline holds up a big table. The croaker grows past a meter and wastes nothing: flesh for sashimi, bones for soup, skin blanched, and the swim bladder a delicacy of delicacies. Your talent is that fish. One person who serves as sashimi, soup, and delicacy at once, so when you negotiate your worth, price yourself whole. Do not let them buy you by the cut.

That big mouth speaks boldly: a mouth fit for the dog-day table. But learn this soup's law. Mineo-tang is never buried under chili powder; it is boiled clear and stakes everything on the flesh's sweetness. Real skill runs deep even when clear. Strike your bold words the same way: not hard, but clear. Nothing is more fearsome than the clear voice of someone with substance.

The croaker is the fish that fattens most in the hottest season. You too are the sort who ripens in the middle of trials. This heat is not cooking you but fattening you, so on the dog days, feed your own body first.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

The two dog-day thrones, croaker soup and samgyetang, are rivals who honor each other's rank, while pat-bingsu works beautifully after this hot devotion but cools the sincerity if seated on the same table.