variants:
or less commonly bi bim bap
Definition of bibimbap
: a Korean dish of rice with cooked vegetables, usually meat, and often a raw or fried egg
In Korea, some foods trickled down from the Imperial palace and others have humbler origins. Bibimbap seems to be somewhere in the middle—a dish thought to have been introduced to Korean monarchy by the court of China, but also served to farmers in their fields.— Debra Samuels
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The first known use of bibimbap was in 1977
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