Rice is a traditional food in Korea. Our ancestors have been eating rice as a main food, and the rice has been the most important food to keep their lives. They sow and reap it in the paddy field. How about these days? The ways of eating rice are changing now.
Our ancestors ate rice with barleys, red-beans or millets and so on, but we prefer eating it with black rice or hulled rice. Hulled rice was not often eaten in the past, but now we know it is better for our health than polished rice. The ancestors made rice punch. Although we still like that, we make another drink made by rice that called ‘morning sunlight’. The Morning Sunlight is one of the famous drinks in Korea. The biggest change is on the rice cakes. The rice cakes have existed for a long time. These days, the shape, design and color were changed remarkably. There was only circled or squared rice cake. Now you can see many cute and various shape or designed rice cakes. Some of them look like a western style cake, stars, dolls or even paints. You will be amazed at the graceful color. It is too beautiful to eat off. I wonder how rice will be changed in the recipe.