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Daeboreum

Koreans greet the first full moon with five-grain rice, dried vegetables and nuts cracked for luck.

Korea-Daeboreumnal (Full Moon Festival)
Photo: hojusaram, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Daeboreum

Daeboreum is the first full moon of the Korean lunar year. In the morning people crack hard nuts such as walnuts, chestnuts and pine nuts between their teeth, a custom said to keep the skin clear and the teeth strong for the year. The meal is ogokbap, rice cooked with five grains, with a spread of vegetables that were dried in autumn and are now soaked and seasoned. Yaksik, sweet sticky rice with chestnuts, jujubes and pine nuts, is the treat of the day.

Also part of it, and being written: Ogok-bap (Five-grain rice shared with neighbours.), Namul (Seasoned dried vegetables saved from autumn.), Yaksik (Sweet sticky rice with chestnuts and jujubes.).

About this page

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

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