Help! Bipimbap or Bibimbap?

[Michael Ruhlman]

which is it, is there a preferred spelling for here in the US?

I'm referring of course to the korean rice dish that means thrown together, or so i was told.

Can anyone help me with a definitive spelling?

Thanks.

[bandregg]

The two local Korean places here call it "bibimbap" on their menus.

[Jason Perlow]

Definitely "bibimbap" here in Joisey.

[spaghetttti]

I've always seen it spelled Bibimbap. Recently, there was a brilliant Bibimbap-- Cook-Off IV.

[Michael Ruhlman]

looks like the B's have it.

thanks, and thanks for the above cook off thread

[melonpan]

theres always bibinba which is good because it uses one less letter. if youre into the whole brevity thing...

[chefzadi]

which is it, is there a preferred spelling for here in the US?

I'm referring of course to the korean rice dish that means thrown together, or so i was told.

Can anyone help me with a definitive spelling?

Thanks.

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It means mixed together. My wife knows alot about Korean food.

[GordonCooks]

which is it, is there a preferred spelling for here in the US?

I'm referring of course to the korean rice dish that means thrown together, or so i was told.

Can anyone help me with a definitive spelling?

Thanks.

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It means mixed together. My wife knows alot about Korean food.

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That's an understatement - she's a guru

[JasonTrue]

if you've only heard 'bibimbap" pronounced and not spelled, it's certainly easy to think there's a p sound in the "bibim" part, because the difference in Korean between "b" and "p" is not how "hard" the b or p sound is, but whether it's aspirated or not. So some Koreans make "b" sounds that sound like a "p" but without a puff of air. On the other hand, that final "p" is a little tricky to get right too, because only the first half of the "p" comes out... it's aspirated but unreleased.

That's why Japanese just leave off the final "p" altogether when they say "bibimba"... it sounds closer than "bibimbapu", which would be the most likely way the "p" sound would come out in Japanese.

Korean romanization is more bewilderingly inconsistent than it should be... If I see "soo" or "su" they are the same, following different conventions, but "soo' (sue) and "so" (so) are completely different. And writing out double-l sounds fails to convey the transformation of the sound that happens when present.

[Joon]

My girlfriend likes to call it "Bing bing bop".