For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website ). (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on 10:14 AM IST. Many people don’t really enjoy Korean food, but those who do, love it over any other cuisine. It is strong with flavours and plays well with your taste buds. Those who love food adventures must-try Korean food once. The pancake is made with rice and egg batter mixed with a variety of seafood and green onions and is crunchy on the outside. This is one of the must-haves for all seafood lovers. Haemul Pajeon (Seafood Vegetable Pancake) It is a traditional soup popular majorly because of its creamy and meaty flavour. This is one Korean food known for its high nutritional value. It is often served as a side dish with lunch or dinner and is a traditional Korean noodles dish made with stir-fried sweet potatoes, thinly shredded vegetables, beef, and a pinch of soy sauce and sugar. Japchae is more commonly known for its sweet and flavourful taste and its soft yet slightly chewy texture. The rice cakes become more flavourful with the delicious sauce which is used to coat them. Seollal usually comes around by the time the new year’s resolution fades away, and it gives you a refresher and a new start again.Also known as spicy rice cake, it looks like pasta. As a grownup, I don’t receive sebae-don, but seollal is still exciting. For kids, seollal is exciting because they do sebae (a deep bowing on the floor for elders to show respect), and get to receive money (called sebae-don) in return along with good wishes for the new year. John Schu, you should have asked me why I love seollal. It’s a common custom in Korea that siblings share one syllable in the name, so the little brother’s name became Miro. In the end, I realized that one of my friends’ name, Mina, would be a perfect match for the little girl. I had several other names I called her by throughout many rounds of drafts. It took me a long time to decide on her name. She’s also implied to be the same girl who appears at the end of my debut picture book Cat on the Bus. Mina is a little girl character who’s been showing up in my illustration works for many years and I’m so happy that I finally got to give her a proper story of her own. I had a lot of fun drawing them for this book. It is so beautiful and well-crafted, that they seem like a piece of art. For a fun comparison, I also included my older sister’s one-year birthday photo in which she’s smiling in her beautiful hanbok! Now, as a grown-up, I love hanbok. My one-year birthday photo in which I’m happy again holding a blue rubber ball in an old sweater is included in the book as an author photo. It felt itchy! I cried so much when my parents tried to dress me in hanbok for the one-year birthday photoshoot that they had to give up and put me back in a sweater. As a kid, I didn’t like wearing one like Miro, Mina’s younger brother. Simply put, it’s a lucky bag! I included a direction on how to fold a paper bokjumoni at the beginning of the book. “Bok” means luck and good fortune which includes every aspect of life, and “jumoni” means a pocket/pouch. Others take place later in the monthlike Chinese New Year and Korean New Year. Some celebrate the new year on January 1. Please finish the following sentence starters:īokjumoni i s a colorful, decorative pouch that can be tied to the hanbok to carry money or small items. New Years celebrations vary throughout the world. I jumped on the chance, and by the fall, I had the first draft of the story inspired by the families I met who went into kids’ schools to share their Seollal cultures. Then, in 2020, Joy Peskin, the editor at FSG saw the image I created for Lunar New Year and asked if I wanted to make a story about Seollal. I thought it was a great idea, but didn’t feel that I had the right story in me. One of the readers I connected with in 2018 asked me if I could write a story about Seollal as there were not many books about it. Lunar New Year is celebrated by a lot of Asian countries but many people in western countries know it as Chinese New Year. I was especially impressed that many families went to the kids’ schools to share the traditions of Seollal. It was inspiring to talk with them and see many of them share their Korean cultures with others. Schu, it’s so wonderful to be back! Since I started making stories about Yoomi and her Korean family in the books including Sunday Funday in Koreatown, and No Kimchi for Me!, many Korean American families have reached out to me.
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