Traditionally, for the lunar new year, Koreans eat ddeokguk (rice-cake soup—example here). I find ddeokguk somewhat boring, so I always spring for the alternative: ddeok manduguk, which is basically ddeokguk plus mandu (i.e., gyoza, dumplings*).
In that spirit, I made some ddeok manduguk yesterday as a belated way to celebrate the lunar new year (the official Seollal was on Friday the 12th):
I went cheap and used ground beef, but hey—I liked the result.
Very little of the above is homemade, I confess. The mandu (which were the wrong kind, but they were on sale, so whatever) were premade and frozen; the ddeok (elliptical rice cakes) were premade and sold in a huge plastic, vacuum-sealed bag; the beef was pre-ground; the broth was powdered chicken bouillon from a can. The overall quality was mediocre, but it made for good comfort food. I ate two big bowls. No regrets.
So that's how I celebrated Lunar New Year on Valentine's Day.
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*I actually can't stand the name "potsticker." It sounds incredibly ugly to me, which is why I didn't include it, above, as a synonym. The term sucks all the sexy out of the situation, like when a guy refers to women's tits as "funbags," or when he refers to a woman's lovely, curvaceous ass as a "pooper." Ick. Have some respect, fellas. Tits and ass!
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