Source: Atlas Obscura
A simple salad called morkovcha or “Korean carrots” can be found in markets and on tables across the former Soviet Union. Despite its name, people from Korea probably won’t be familiar with this dish of julienned carrots marinated in white vinegar, vegetable oil, coriander, red pepper, and fresh garlic.
But anyone from Uzbekistan will recognize it immediately.The former Soviet Union is home to around 500,000 ethnic Koreans (or Koryo-saram), with the largest communities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Their forebears had come from the northern part of Korea to Russia’s Far East in the 1860s to escape famine. In the early 1900s, another wave of Koreans fled repression…
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