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Chuseok

Korean harvest thanksgiving, with half-moon rice cakes steamed on pine needles.

Jesa , a type of Korean ancestor veneration held on Chuseok (Korean mid-autumn festival).
Photo: by Joseph Steinberg (Baltimoron in Korea) at Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Chuseok

Chuseok is the Korean harvest festival. Families travel to their home towns, visit the graves of their ancestors and set a table of new rice, fruit and other food before them. The night before, everyone sits together to shape songpyeon, small half-moon rice cakes filled with sesame, beans or chestnut, which are steamed on a bed of pine needles. The meal also has many kinds of jeon, glass noodles, braised ribs and taro soup. New rice wine is poured.

The dishes

SongpyeonHalf-moon rice cakes steamed on pine needles.JeonPan-fried fritters for the ancestral table.JapchaeGlass noodles with vegetables.Galbi-jjimBraised short ribs.SikhyeSweet rice punch.

More dishes made for Chuseok

YakgwaVegetarian약과 🇰🇷 South KoreaDeep-fried Korean sweet made with wheat flour, honey, and sesame oil Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Chuseok" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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