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Yaksik
Korean name
Hangul 약식 / 약밥
Hanja 藥食 / 藥밥
Revised Romanization yaksik / yakbap
McCune–Reischauer yaksik / yakpap

Yaksik or yakbap (literally "medicinal food" or "medicinal rice")[1] is a variety of tteok or Korean rice cake made by steaming glutinous rice, and mixing with chestnuts, jujubes, and pine nuts. It is seasoned with honey or brown sugar, sesame oil soy sauce, and sometimes cinnamon.[2] It has been traditionally eaten on Jeongwol Daeboreum (정월대보름), a Korean traditional holiday which falls on every 15th of January in the lunar calendar. [3]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Hi Soo Shin Hepinstall; Sonya Hepinstall (2001). Growing Up In A Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook. Ten Speed Press, 227p. ISBN 1580082815.
  2. ^ Hi Soo Shin Hepinstall; Sonya Hepinstall (2001). Growing Up In A Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook. Ten Speed Press. p. 227p. ISBN 1580082815. http://books.google.com/books?id=O-EUobx--p0C&pg=PA227&lpg=PA227&dq=yaksik&source=web&ots=gWHodB5Dzd&sig=mPFj8_FqhOsX6ZCZK1wayLzDoPM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result. 
  3. ^ "Yaksik 약식 (藥食)" (in Korean). Empas / EncyKorea. http://100.empas.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=249375&v=46. 

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