New Year Food In Korea

Here s what you need to know about south korean cuisine.

New year food in korea. Actually i m not sure why americans call ddok kuk 떡국 a soup with rice cakes. The most important food that is eaten during the korean lunar new year is 떡국 tteokguk. This year seollal falls on january 25 of the gregorian calendar.

Eating a bowl of tteokguk symbolizes growing a year older along with good health and a long life. Traditions and customs. Seollal lunar new year s day.

While many observe sinjeong solar new year. The food in south korea is delicious and healthy and there s a massive variety to choose from. This soup is made using sliced ricecake known as 떡 tteok in korean.

Korean new year s dishes the biggest part of seollal is the food. Korean new year food traditional and authentic korean new year food for koreans that will help celebrate the lunar new year. For koreans and other cultures that celebrate the lunar new year the holiday season doesn t end with the stroke of the clock on january 1st.

Korean winter food you must try. Thank you so much for reading cooking sharing and commenting on my recipes. Tteokguk ddukguk is the most representative of seollal dishes.

For new years day we decided to make all the traditional new years food black eyed peas which is what we ate in missouri pork and sauerkraut what they eat here in central pennsylvania and tok guk what eunjee told me was the traditional new years food for korea. On korean new year day people prepare a lot of food and spend much of the day with family. Let s talk about what koreans eat on new year s day.