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nori (海苔)
What is it?
Dried seaweed sheets used in Japanese cooking, most closely associated with sushi and onigiri. Toasted until crisp and slightly fragrant. The Japanese counterpart to Korean gim, made from the same genus of seaweed but processed differently.
Seaweed
Related Terms
gimbap (김밥)
gim (김)
temaki (手巻き)
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