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Seollal

Koreans eat a bowl of rice cake soup and count themselves a year older.

Korea Traditional Game, Tuho
Photo: Kang Byeong Kee, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Seollal

Seollal is the Korean Lunar New Year. The morning begins with charye, a table of food set out for the ancestors, and then the family eats. The one dish nobody skips is tteokguk, a clear soup with thin oval slices of white rice cake. Eating it is said to add a year to your age. Around it come pan-fried jeon, glass noodles with vegetables, and braised short ribs. Sweet rice punch and honey cookies end the meal, and children bow to their elders.

The dishes

TteokgukRice cake soup that makes you a year older.JapchaeGlass noodles with vegetables, a feast dish.SikhyeSweet rice punch to finish.

Also part of it, and being written: Jeon (Pan-fried fish, meat and vegetable fritters for the ancestral table.), Galbi-jjim (Braised beef short ribs for the family meal.), Mandu (Dumplings, often added to the soup in the north.), Yakgwa (Honey cookies set on the ritual table.).

About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Korean New Year" 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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