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Topic: Songpyeon


In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Songpyeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Songpyeon are small cakes traditionally eaten during the Korean autumn festival, Chuseok.
However, songpyeon are also sometimes prepared from potato flour.
The shape and size of songpyeon vary from one region to another; however, the half-moon shape is the most common.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Songpyeon   (119 words)

  
 Welcome to WHAT'S ON's Homepage
Korean make Songpyeon (Rice cake steamed on a layer of pine needles) every thanksgiving day which is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Songpyeon is divided into several categories depending on its stuffing.
Songpyeon made with the first harvested rice was used in a worship service for family ancestors on Chuseok morning.
english.whatsonkorea.com /main.ph?code=N&scode=N-10&pst=L   (413 words)

  
 Welcome To Korea Now !!!-Society & The Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
As usual, admission to four major palaces, public parks with royal tombs and cultural sites in Seoul was free of charge on the full moon of Chuseok, one of the nation's most festive days.
Rice powder is kneaded with boiling water to make the dough, and the sweet stuffing is made of sesame, red beans, beans or chestnuts.
Songpyeon are shaped like half-moons or clams, depending on the region.
kn.koreaherald.co.kr /SITE/data/html_dir/2001/10/16/200110160029.asp   (1008 words)

  
 Cuisine of Korea - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Commonly grilled with garlic and onions, dipped inssamjjang and wrapped in ssangchu.
Songpyeon (송편) -Hollow rice cake served at Chuseok (Mid-AutumnFestival) decorated with sesames, soybeans, and chestnuts.
Honey or anothersoft, sweet material is found inside.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Korean_cuisine   (1150 words)

  
 foods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
On Chuseok, people visit ancestral graves to thank their ancestors for a good harvest and for the well being of their family.
Special foods for Chuseok are songpyeon (crescent-shaped rice cakes) and torantang (taro soup).
Songpyeon is a rice cake hand-filled with any of various fillings made of bean, chestnut, jujube or sweetened sesame seeds, and steamed with pine needles.
www.orinda.k12.ca.us /OIS/Saturno/fall04/per2/peter/foods.html   (840 words)

  
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They are an important part of all holiday meals and served in important ceremonies such as a baby's first birthday, weddings, sixtieth birthday and also appear on the tables prepared for ancestral memorial rites.
To make song-pyeon, plain rice powder is made into dough using hot water, then shaped into crescent-shaped songpyeon and filled with sesame seeds, red bean, mung bean and chestnut paste.
Songpyeon, a standard fare during the Harvest Moon Festival (Chuseok) in the fall, is made with newly harvested rice and grains and appear on the table for the ancestrial rites, in an expression of gratitude for the bountiful harvest.
www.pennfamily.org /KSS-USA/20020615-2225.htm   (168 words)

  
 Tour2Korea.com
Songpyeon stuffing: 5 chestnuts, fresh beans 1 C, salt 1 tsp, white sesame seed
Place pine needles at the bottom of a steamer and arrange songpyeon side by side but not touching each other.
Place another layer of pine needles and songpyeon.
cms.english.tour2korea.com /05food/LocalFood/su_38.asp?kosm=m5_3&konum=2   (273 words)

  
 G4C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
It is a time when Korean families come together over oodles of freshly made "songpyeon" (rice cakes) and fun traditional games as the gentle autumn breeze heralds news of a good harvest.
At the break of dawn on Chuseok, family members dressed in their traditional finery carry out a simple memorial service known as "charye," either at home or at the family gravesite.
These pine-flavored rice cakes are prepared by kneading rice powder into dough with boiling water, and stuffed with sesame, red beans or chestnuts.
www.egov.go.kr /main?a=AH010NewsViewApp&ca=1000413&cp=1   (447 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
One of the dishes prepared for this day that cannot go unmentioned is songpyeon (rice cake).
Inside songpyeon, freshly harvested sesame, beans, redbeans, chestnuts, or Chinese dates are stuffed.
Then the songpyeon is steamed over of pine needles.
www.leehyunsung.com /en/education/culture/sesi_customs.htm   (1640 words)

  
 KNTO - Korean Rice Cakes
This soft yet chewy rice cake is served during weddings and other happy occasions.
To make songpyeon, plain rice powder is made into dough using hot water, then shaped into crescent-shaped songpyeon and filled with sesame seeds, red bean, mung bean and chestnut paste.
For a period the young people of Korea thought of the traditional rice cakes not to be trendy and turned their backs on them.
www.knto.or.kr /eng/hallyu/tteok.html   (1477 words)

  
 Food, Wine and Travel
At the Hyundai Hotel overlooking Gyeongju’s Bomun Lake, we snacked on green and white crescent-shaped dumplings made from rice-flour dough stuffed with chestnuts and mung beans.
Traditionally, these songpyeon are steamed on layers of pine needles to prevent them sticking to each other.
Popular during Chuseok, the autumn thanksgiving festival, their green and white colours are a typical expression of yin and yang.
www.foodwinetravel.com.au /koreanfood.html   (1712 words)

  
 Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
Those who wish to experience the making of Songpyeon, or Thanksgiving rice cake, can attend an event at the National Folk Museum at 10:00am Friday, followed by a traditional ancestor memorial service at 11:00am.
The museum is also holding special exhibitions, including the 'Thanksgiving Tradition in Cartoons,' 'Traditional Paper Dolls of Thanksgiving Day' and 'Scarecrows Exhibition' throughout the holiday weekend.
Songpyeon making will take place on October 1 as well as a performance of Pyeongtaek peasant music, the traditional musical 'The Baebijang Story' and Bongsan Talchum, or mask dance.
english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200109/200109250181.html   (254 words)

  
 Nancy Bizco Inc
Food for Chuseok: Songpyeon If Songpyeon is made directly from rice powder, the color of the Songpyeon will be white.
Crown daisies when mixed, give the Songpyeon a greenish color, this might be nice on Saint Patrick's Day.
For a touch of yellow Gardenia seeds can be added to the Songpyeon, might be nice for a summer picnic.
www.nancybizco.com /english/liv_food.html   (577 words)

  
 Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
The 15th day on the eighth month on the lunar calendar, September 21 this year, with ripened grains and fruit marks one of Korea's favorite days, Chuseok.
On this day of the full moon, Koreans perform rituals at family gravesites and make crescent-shaped rice cakes called songpyeon.
The ritual called Cha-rae involves everyone in the family and tables laden with meat and vegetables are arranged according to Confucian doctrines, and family members bow to thank their ancestors for today's health and abundance.
english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200209/200209220002.html   (249 words)

  
 Bienvenidos a Corea Hoy !!!
Las comidas cocinadas con calabaza son muy variadas, incluyendo tortas de arroz, melcocha, comidas fritas, masas añadidas a la sopa, verduras condimentadas, alimentos cocidos al vapor, guiso de arroz, y bebida de arroz dulce.
Para preparar songpyeon de calabaza, una calabaza de otoño es cortada en rodajas y secada.
El songpyeon de calabaza de color dorado tiene un aspecto atractivo y es igual de nutritivo que el songpyeon hecho con papa, arrurruz o artemisa pegajosa ("mugwort").
www.coreahoy.net /document/04dictra01.html   (1106 words)

  
 Tour2Korea.com
During the summer, when potatoes were in abundance after the harvest, those were easy to bruise and unable to be kept for long.
Those were set aside to make gamja songpyeon and this cake became a delicacy in mountain areas.
Potato starch is kneaded with hot water to make thin and flat doughs.
english.tour2korea.com /05food/LocalFood/gw_10.asp?kosm=m5_3&konum=7   (125 words)

  
 INSIDE JoongAng Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The most important food on the charyesang menu is tteok, or rice cake, as it is considered the purest of all the foods made of grains.
Chuseok is closely connected to the full moon; thus, the half-moon-shaped songpyeon (a type of rice cake) is also an important part of the charyesang menu.
The rituals start with the eldest son of the family burning incense sticks made of Chinese juniper.
joongangdaily.joins.com /200409/24/200409241853447609900091009101.html   (1474 words)

  
 koreatips.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
People visit the graves of their ancestors, and they cook using the first fruits and crops of the year.
Songpyeon is a typical dish, made with new rice, new beans and new chestnuts.
Several games are commonly played including tug of war and the Korean round dance.
korea.worldtips.net /english/culture/holiday.html   (624 words)

  
 ZenKimchi
I was able to get some good video before the battery died on the video camera.
We spent the day playing traditional games and making songpyeon, a candy made of sweets or fruit stuffed into rice dough dumplings.
If I ever see another songpyeon, it’ll be too soon.
www.zenkimchi.com /results.php?textfield=2004-09-24&Submit=Submit   (875 words)

  
 SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
So, baby's growing to see the first birthday was regarded as especially important and celebrated with a big party.
The ritual table for Dol is prepared with the Baekseolgi (whithe steamed rice cake), Susu-gyeongdan (honey cakes made of African millet), Songpyeon (stuffed rice cakes shaped like a half-moon), noodles, jujube, and various fruits.
Due to the belief that the future of the baby can be foretold from the item the baby picks first, people place several objects such as money, bow and arrow, writing brush, ink stone, and ink stick on the table.
english.seoul.go.kr /today/about/about_03disc_0202.html   (1971 words)

  
 INSIDE JoongAng Daily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
On offer in Hawangseong Park will be a rich variety of both, along with other traditional foods that have been passed down through the generations.
Key events include a songpyeon-making competition (songpyeon is the sticky rice cake served at Chuseok), a cutting-rice-cakes-while-blindfolded contest and wine tastings.
Other events include Silla pottery and ceramic exhibitions, street parades, music concerts, and traditional mask painting.
joongangdaily.joins.com /200503/24/200503242230450279900092009201.html   (1174 words)

  
 Korean Rice Cake songpyeon Picture - Youngju City photos
Korean Rice Cake posted by josephine photos modified on Sun Jul 04 2004.
If you have pictures or photos like "songpyeon"...
Whether you are a professional photographer with a library of Southkorea pictures or a tourist who likes to take photos, we are happy to display them.
www.exploitz.com /pictures/4917/index.php?pix=1&size=1   (163 words)

  
 Memorabilia: 09/26/2004 - 10/02/2004
During the Chuseok holidays (September 27 ~ September 29), various participatory events such as making Songpyeon (half-moon shaped rice cakes), ancestral memorial rituals, traditional folk art performance, brewing traditional liquor, tug-of-war, and exhibition of paper craft art works will be held at Namsangol.
Visitors can experience making Songpyeon in a large iron pot and prepare dishes for the ancestral memorial rituals (Charye).
In the outdoor stage of Namsangol, various traditional performances will be held including the Bongsan mask dance, Bukcheong tiger dance, and Pansori (musical story-telling performed by a vocalist with drum accompaniment).
kittenita.blogspot.com /2004_09_26_kittenita_archive.html   (6597 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
People in Latin the American countries probably know it but to many people in other regions, Korea in particular, it might be a strange name.
Hallaca is pronounced Ayakka and it is a famous Venezuelan Christmas food like, perhaps, Korean Songpyeon we take on the Chuseok Full Moon Festival Day.
Guillermo Quintero of Venezuela hosted a Hallaca Christmas luncheon for a number of his Korean media friends at his residence in Seongbug-dong (Songbuk-dong in McCune Reichauer system) on Dec. 27.
www.koreapost.com /2002_01/peo_01.htm   (1246 words)

  
 [UNist]
In fact, just last night there was a reception in honor of something to do with the proposed Convention on the Rights of the Disabled, a project on which our Minister Kang has taken a leadership role.
According to a Bosnian woman I met there, Korea has a reputation for having good spreads at our functions, and last night the buffet was in high form: sushi, fried and steamed dumplings, beef cubes, smoked salmon croquettes, lavish desserts, songpyeon (pounded rice cakes, pictured above).
In fact, much of the fun last night was watching the many non-Korean guests try to figure out the tteok:
www.angelfire.com /jazz/thetraveler/unist/index.blog?from=20050204   (1369 words)

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