Korean recipes: Tteokguk rice cake soup

Korean recipes: Tteokguk rice cake soup   Seollal Lunar New Year’s Day is back. This holiday has more meanings than other days, as we are now one year older. On Seollal, families and relatives get together to perform ancestral rites, the charye, enjoy a feast, thesechan (세찬, 歲饌), and share their blessings with each other.…

Korean recipes: Goldongban bibimbap

Korean recipes: Goldongban bibimbap   Bibimbap is one of the most popular Korean dishes enjoyed by non-Koreans.Depending on what ingredients you add and how you mix it, you can make your own bibimbap to your taste and enjoy the harmony created by all the ingredients.   Bibimbap is one of Korea’s most iconic dishes that can…

Fish cake: a must-eat snack

Fish cake: a must-eat snack   Fish cake, or eomuk in Korean, used to be a frequent element in a school kid’s lunch box. Students would taste the food item all the time, if not from their own lunch box then from their friends’. As people grew up, they would long for winter to come,…

Korean recipes: Seafood green onion pancake

Korean recipes: Seafood green onion pancake   Seafood and green onion savory pancakes, or haemul pajeon, are thin savory cakes made from lots of green onions and bits of seafood. Characterized by its fresh seafood and soft green onions, this dish is full of nutrition, as it contains carbohydrates, protein and vitamins. The Dongnae neighborhood…