Tock Kuck

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Did you eat Osechi food on New Year's Day? I ate this food, Tock Kuck with my family! As I said in my previous blog, Tock is Korean rice-cake. and Kuck means soup! So Tock Kuck is a Korean rice cake-soup. Korean people eat this Tock Kuck on New Year's Day. So our family eat this Tock Kuck instead of Japanese Osechi food every year. I like Tock Kuck. It is really good! :)

Tock of this Tock Kuck is something like this upper picture. My mother told me why Korean people eat Tock Kuck on New Year's Day is because Tock is white. And white means like new start. So Korean people eat this hoping good new start on New Year's Day. I wish my 2009 will be a great year for me! Why don't you try too? :)

South Korean people eat Tock Kuck on New Year's Day but it is said North Korean people eat Gyoza on New Year's Day not Tock Kuck. Inside Gyoza, there are a lot of nourishing materials. So people eat that on New Year's Day hoping they live a long life. I wonder what do American people eat on New Year's day. I have to ask my teacher, Mr. Telega :)

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Beautiful Tock!

I LOVE these Korean rice cakes! In Korean, it is called Tock. There are various kind of Korean rice cake. Korean people eat Tock on New Year's day. I wish I could eat this rice cake in Korea.

It tastes sweet, but not too sweet. People usually eat this Tock with tea.These Tock contain a lot of protein. I really miss these Tock. When I was an elementary school student, I used to eat these rice cake every New Year's day. And New Year's day is drawing near.

Also, there are various Birthday cakes made by Tock.

I have never eaten this birthday cake made by rice cake, but I really want to try when I go to Korea. It looks very beautiful and delicious!

If you spend your birth day in Korea, I recommend you to eat this birthday rice cake not normal cake. It is cheaper than Japanese normal cake :)





















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Japchae

This time, I'd like to show you Japchae, typical Korean food. Korean people cook this when they serve their guest with a variety of dishes. So you can see this dish on special day such as New Year's day and someone's birthday.

How to cook this Japchae is something like this;

First, you have to cook noodles in hot water for a few minutes,and stir-fry vegitables and meats.

After that, mix them up.It looks so simple, but it's one of very elaborate dishes for Korean people. So my mother hardly tries to cook Japchae. But my grandmother used to cook this for us when we were small.

Although it takes so much time to cook Japchae, it really tastes good. I'm sure you'll like it.

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Tegu is for this!!

This time, I'd like to talk about Machang. Machang is a food which my hometown Tegu is famous for. I had never tried that until I went to Korea last summer. Machang is internal organs! It looks like something very awful. So I refused to eat that, when I'm in Tegu. But when my sister tried to eat the Machang and told me it was good, I tried it. It was good. People come all the way to eat this Machang!

This is only 6000 in Korea. So it is only about 500 yen in Japan.Very cheap! If you go to Tegu, you should try this Machang!!

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Kimpa!

This time, I'd like to show you what I made yesterday. Yesterday, I wanted to cook by myself, but it was too late night to go to buy some ingredients. So I decided to cook Kimpa which is Korean famous food like Sushi in Japan. But the ingredients is totally different, because I just made a new versiton of Kimpa. (Actually, there were not the ingredients of Kimpa in my house.)

The upper one is the rice mixed sesame oil and salt and sesame. The bottom one are Tuna, eggs and kimchi.

First, you have to prepare a sheet of laver. Then you just spread the rice out on the laver.
After that, just put the ingredients, tuna and eggs and kimchi in a row.
And you roll up that with your hand. Then you cut them moderate size. Be careful when you cut using your knife.

That's it!! too easy! :) and the taste is also good!! my mother really liked this kimpa which I have cooked with my idea.


These are all I used for cooking this food. Actually, this is my first time to cook kimpa. But it was good, so I want to cook this frequently because it's so easy to cook and does not take so much time!
I cooked this kimpa in 30minutes even though I have never cooked this but just watched my mom cooking. You should try! I can do this, so can you! :)

My Favorite Snack.

This time, I'd like to introduce hotok in Korea. This food is my one of favorite food, it's like a snack. When I was small, my grandmother used to cook this for me. There are some honey syrup in Hotok. We can eat it only winter. It really tastes good when you are outside in winter. It is very hot so be careful when you eat hotok. It's like ice cream in summer. I really miss this food. I can't eat this food since I have come to Japan. There is nothing like hotok. The hotok which was made by my grandmother is the most delicious snack I have ever eaten. You can find this if you go to Korea during winter season. When I went to Korea this summer vacation, I could not eat because the wether was too hot to eat hotok. Recently, I found there was new kind of Hotok. The new one is called vegitable hotok. There are some vegitable in hotok so it is healthy too. I have never tried that one. So if I go to Korea this winter break, I will try it!

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A flat-GYOUZA

This is what I ate almost everyday in Korea durng this summer break. When I got Korea, and call my mom to tell that we arrived Korea safely. Then she first said "Okay. And please bring the flat-gyoza home when you come back to Japan. I really miss the food. "

Yes, this gyouza is only in Tegu which is my hometown. So Tegu is famous for this flat-gyouza. It is called Napchak Mandu. "Mandu" is gyouza in Japanese, and "Napchak" means flat. When we eat this one, we usually put special sauce on the gyouza. Or as you can see the previous food in my blog, Toppoki, it is also good match with this flat-gyoza. Please try this one, if you come to Tegu. :) You can see this one easily in my hometown.

My sister, Areum, also like this food very much, we bought this food so much for my family. Maybe, the amount is almost two month we can eat this in Japan.haha Because after we come back to Japan, we have to wait for a year again to eat this food!

If you wanna try this one, please tell me. ;) I'll bring this to school after I cook this one in my house, or my mom does. haha :)

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