The word “rice cake” sounds like a regular cake with rice on top of it. However, it is sort of different. Rice cakes are cakes or little desserts that are made of rice as main ingredient. It is originally from Korea. To make the rice cakes, you grind the rice and add little water and mix them up like dough. Then you steam up the dough. There are many different kinds of rice cakes: rainbow, plain, In Jul Mi, Song Pyun and more. Song Pyun, one of the types of rice cakes has honey and sesames inside of it. There are three different colors to it: yellow, pink, white, and green. Many Korean people eat rice cakes when they are having a first birthday for the baby, wedding, or some celebration. Sometimes they just eat it because it is delicious.
Rice Cakes are made first in South Korea around early 1300’s. At first, it was only served to the loyal king. Then it became to known to everyone, but it was too expensive to eat it. Since the price of the rice was so high, only nobles and upper middle class were able to afford to eat it. For the poor people, they only ate it for special occasion like wedding or new years. In new years, South Koreans eat the rice soup. Inside of rice soup, there are dumplings, boiled eggs, seaweeds, and sesames. South Koreans eat this every year to say that you age one more year by eating it. There are some jokes saying that if you eat more than one bowl, you get more aged.
Now days, people eat it like just appetizer or dessert. They are small and chewy which attracts many people. Rice cakes are cheap and so small now days, but now I know that these are only served to kings and nobles long time ago. They are really good and I want to spread this Korean’s traditional food to everyone in the world, because they do not know what it is. They should know that it is so good that it was only served to nobles and the king.
Rice Cakes are made first in South Korea around early 1300’s. At first, it was only served to the loyal king. Then it became to known to everyone, but it was too expensive to eat it. Since the price of the rice was so high, only nobles and upper middle class were able to afford to eat it. For the poor people, they only ate it for special occasion like wedding or new years. In new years, South Koreans eat the rice soup. Inside of rice soup, there are dumplings, boiled eggs, seaweeds, and sesames. South Koreans eat this every year to say that you age one more year by eating it. There are some jokes saying that if you eat more than one bowl, you get more aged.
Now days, people eat it like just appetizer or dessert. They are small and chewy which attracts many people. Rice cakes are cheap and so small now days, but now I know that these are only served to kings and nobles long time ago. They are really good and I want to spread this Korean’s traditional food to everyone in the world, because they do not know what it is. They should know that it is so good that it was only served to nobles and the king.
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