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SuJeongGwa is a Korean traditional beverage made with mainly cinnamon sticks, ginger, and sugar. Koreans usually drink this beverage as a dessert. Koreans drink it a lot during the holidays. When you look at the ingredients, it has some healthy qualities. It tastes good both hot or cold, but I prefer it cold with ice cubes. Once you make it, you can keep it in the refrigerator quite a long time. If you invite some people over for a Korean meal, this can be a good beverage for your meal.

Yield: 9 Cups

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• GyePi (계피) = Cinnamon
• SaengGang (생강) = Ginger

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Hi, Everyone~~~
Yesterday, I got a very interesting message from The Hub of Sparkle. Here is the message from them:

“Hi there. Your blog was nominated for an award for the best Korea blogs of 2008, at The Hub Of Sparkle. Go check it out if you like.”

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Not only the idea for this survey is interesting, but they also listed many other cool Korean blogs. I can’t wait to see the result of the survey from different areas. I was very happy to see my blog name on the list. It’s all thanks to your support. I hope that more people visit Aeri’s Kitchen’s blog and share information about Korean food in 2009. Love you all ~~ hehe

P.S.
Do you like my blog???? Then please go vote~~~ hehe

This is a mini contest that I prepared for my YouTube subscribers and blog visitors. If you are also interested in this contest, you can leave a comment in this post. Thank you!

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TteokGuk is a traditional Korean New Year soup. Korean people celebrate the Lunar New Year, and this soup is the main dish for that holiday meal. On New Year’s morning, we wear HanBok (Korean traditional clothes) and greet (bow) our grandparents, parents, or relatives. Older people give a blessing for the New Year to their children along with some money called “SaeBatDon” (새뱃돈). After greeting the older people, family and relatives eat breakfast together. The meal will have New Year’s soup, different kinds of vegetable dishes, fish, jeon, japvchae, galbi jjim, and so on. Since Koreans calculate their age according to New Year, and not according to their actual birthday, eating the bowl of New Year soup on New Year’s Day means becoming one year older. It might sound a little crazy. Sometime we joke, “I don’t want to eat more than one bowl of New Year’s soup, otherwise I would become more than one year older.” hehe

Yield: 2 Servings

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• SaeHae Bok MaNi BaDeuSeYo (새해 복 많이 받으세요) = Have a lot of good fortune for the new year. This is the Korean greeting for New Year’s Day.

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