
A dish that I would very like to introduce you today is Tteokguk, one of the Korean traditional dishes. Tteokguk is sliced rice pasta soup. Of course, like all the other dishes, this dish can be eaten anytime, but Tteokguk is specially eaten on the Lunar New Year's Day, called Seollal. The first day of the year is like a blank white paper that nothing is written on. People thought Tteok, the rice cake, is pure enough to eat on Seollal because there is no color added; to spend this day with neat and proper minds, people made soup with Tteok, which is Tteokguk. It is unsure since when the Korean people has started eating this dish, but it has been hundreds years at least. All the family members gather together at their grandparent's house and eat Tteokguk together. Eating Tteokguk on the Lunar New Year’s Day, people say that they are now a year older than yesterday. I still remember my childhood that I used to say that I will have several bowls of Tteokguk on Seollal so that I can be several years older.
It looks like a rice cake soup. Anyway I like this kind of soup very much. I don't like too much things added into the soup and destroy the original taste of the soup. Not like you want to be some years older in your childhood, I want to be younger everyday!
ReplyDeleteI like the meaning you said about Ttekguk. Like our Chinese people eat dumplings in the lunar New Year, we always have a meaning of a special kind of food, which all would remember. When we are far away from home or getting elder, recall that memory, it's really unforgettable.
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