Overview
Samgye-tang (Korean: 삼계탕), or "ginseng chicken soup" is a tang that consists primarily of a whole young chicken (poussin) or quail filled with garlic, rice, jujube and ginseng. It is traditionally considered to be a health food. Samgye-tang is a representative summer health food. Soup made with chicken that is slightly larger than the chick is called yeonggye baeksuk, and the chicken is divided into half is called banggye-tang.