“Songpyeon” (송편) — Today (August 15th of the lunar calendar) is Korean Thanksgiving (추석). Mom cooked a delicious Korean meal. This is the traditional Thanksgiving rice cake. The white ones in the front are plain. The yellow ones are colored with the juice from kabocha squash (Japanese winter squash). The pink ones in the back are colored with little red fruit (오미자). Inside the rice cakes are crushed sesame with honey, crushed mung beans with honey or crushed black beans with honey. That’s a young pine cone for garnish. (photo via my Flickr)
