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The smaller the banchan dish will lend itself to a certain chic table-setting look, however, keep in mind you may spend dinner constantly getting up to refill it as they really don’t hold much. Korean dish sets may have bowls for Udong hot noodles, Nengmyun cold noodles, Bibim-myun mixed noodles but it’s honestly a difference of a few millimeters here and there. A basic soup bowl can sub in its place quite competently. As I mentioned, we have Corelle’s Frost White Set and find it does the job somewhat- the soup bowl is a touch too big for rice but sometimes too little for hearty soups. But it’s such a negligible difference that we’re not willing to pay import fees to buy an perfectly sized dish set.
The very basic tableware for Korean food is the rice bowl, soup bowl and side dishes. It really depends what you cook often at home.