We bought some of these Korean
snacks that we did not know before.Ghana coco pie, corn chips, butter coconut
chips, PEPERO J,
cereal, strawberry cereal chips, and many others not visible there.
We can
eat most of them. Most of them? Yes....because the particular coco pie was not
something that we can eat since it contains gelatin from pig. So, it was a good
thing that we knew it now. Some of our friends did not know it before so before
consuming any gwaja, we should check the ingridients contained in the product.
I was lucky to be able to read Hangeul otherwise it would hard to imagine what
to eat here. The good thing about most gwaja in Korea was that
(although...sadly speaking—they are mostly written in Korean alphabet ‘hangeul’)they
provide ample information of what the ingredients were. In fact, most of them
even show where they come from. Nice, right? So, the next time we buy something
(any food) we’d always make sure that no pig or pork or any gelatin-like
ingredients were inside or contained in them. I do hope that this information
would be of help for others, too. Especially for any Muslims who concern about
the halal labeling of the food—which is a rare case, yet.
