추억의 옛날 사라다 만들기

What does “sarada” mean in Korean?

Modern Korean says 샐러드 for salad, straight from English. 사라다 is the older word, borrowed through Japanese サラダ, and it survived by attaching itself to one specific dish: fruit, cucumber, crab stick and quail eggs bound in mayonnaise. So 샐러드 is leaves with dressing, and 사라다 is the sweet, creamy thing somebody’s grandmother made for holidays.

The clip calls it 추억 속의 사라다, “the sarada of memory,” and notes it turned up at every 잔치 (feast), birthday and 명절 (holiday). Korean keeps several of these Japanese-routed doublets side by side: 오뎅 next to 어묵 for fish cake, 다마네기 next to 양파 for onion. The older form almost always sounds homier.