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Happy Lunar New Year! What do we eat during Seol (lunar New Year)?

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Have you seen any notice of closure of businesses in Korea? This is to celebrate our national holiday, Seol (Lunar New Year)! We will definitely fail on our new year’s diet plan during Seol because there would be variety of foods as whole family gathers together, right? Then we will have a look into the types of Seol food that people will be looking forward! Number one! Jeon  ( Korean   pancake ) During  Seol , we often have memorial service to wish peaceful new year.  There is one thing that cannot be missed on memorial service table, which is assorted  Jeon ! I remember myself waking up early because of the  Jeon  smell. There is a Korean style meat ball that children love, and Pollack  Jeon , pumpkin  Jeon , meat  Jeon  and even  Jeon  skewers sometime. Then you might be thinking, ‘Don’t you need so many ingredients to make  Jeon , then?’ I will tell you what we need ...

How to cook delicious Korean food, bulgogi

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Many people who visit Korea eat bulgogi and I think that is because bulgogi is well known as Korean traditional food all over the world with great reviews stating that it is delicious. However since we cannot go out to have bulgogi all the time is there any way we can cook bulgogi, Korean traditional food at home? Firstly, bulgogi is Korean style beef BBQ which is cooked marinated beef and the important part at this point is the seasoning and the quality of beef. It will be hard for you to find beefs for bulgogi in other countries when beef for bulgogi can be easily found in Korea. If you cannot find beef for bulgogi, it is ideal for you to buy beef that is thin for the seasoning to be absorbed well and has nice marbling of meat and fat layers. So we will have to prepare basic ingredients, right? Firstly, chop onions, carrots and green onions thinly and we have to make the seasoning. If you find it hard to make your own seasoning, you could buy Korean b...

Korean traditional food that cannot be missed on Korean national holidays

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Scorching heat has been disappeared into nowhere and there’s already cold autumn wind when it’s only early September. It feels great somehow by just looking up the sky because it is so beautiful and clear may because of the wind. There’s one other great thing on September which is…… Chuseok , Korean national holiday is coming! We will definitely fail on diet during golden week! And there would be variety of foods as whole family gathers together, right? Then we will have a look into the type of  Chuseok  food that people will be looking forward! Food that comes in mind when we hear the word  Chuseok ! Number one! Song pyeon ( half-moon-shaped rice cake ) Wouldn’t it be  Song pyeon ?  Song pyeon  is one of food that cannot be missed on  Chuseok . Our ancestor said that person who makes pretty  Song pyeon  can have child as pretty as the  Song pyeon !  Song pyeon  that is delicious ...