Tteok Guk/年糕汤/떡국

Normally, we use white rice cake to cook; now, we do have colorful rice cake ,we use carrot,pumpkin,mugwort ,etc as colouring~~ 

一般上，都是采用白色米糕；近来，也有五颜六色的米糕，采用红萝卜，南瓜，艾草等天然色素~~

 Dear friends, what did you have for your breakfast on the first day of Lunar New Year ? In Korea, we have "Tteok Guk".

Normally, we use white rice cake to cook; now, we do have colorful rice cake ,we use carrot,pumpkin,mugwort ,etc as colouring~~ 

亲爱的朋友们，在农历新年的早晨，您是享用那一种美食作为早餐呢 ？ 在韩国，我们在这一天早上，家家户户都会享用年糕汤，这年糕汤，在韩文是被称为 “ Tteok Guk ".

一般上，都是采用白色米糕；近来，也有五颜六色的米糕，采用红萝卜，南瓜，艾草等天然色素~~

Tteokguk is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup (guk) with thinly sliced rice cakes (tteok - it can be called a kind of rice pasta). It is tradition to eat tteokguk on New Year's Day because it is believed to grant the consumer good luck for the year and gain a year of age. It is usually garnished with thin julienned cooked eggs, marinated meat.

The custom of having a bowl of tteokguk in the morning of New Year's Day to get a year older, and the custom of saying "How many bowls of tteokguk have you eaten?" to ask a person's age.

The broth is generally made by simmering the main protein (beef, chicken, pork, pheasant, seafood) in a ganjang seasoned stock. The stock is then strained to clarify the broth and long cylinder-shaped garaetteok are thin-sliced diagonally and boiled in the clear broth. Garnish is added before serving; the garnish may vary by region and personal taste, but usual staples are pan-fried julienned egg yolks and whites, gim and spring onions.

韩国人在农历新年年初一的早晨，举家大小一起享用年糕汤。 这年糕汤的主要材料是用被切成薄片的圆形年糕,韩国人称它为 "garaetteok"（是用米作为材料），再加上上汤。这上汤，可分为牛肉汤，鸡汤，煮汤，雉鸡汤，或海鲜汤. 同时也配上一些其他的佐料，如饺子，肉片，鸡蛋或紫菜等。

吃了年糕汤，就意味着长大了一岁。若有人问你 “ 吃了几碗年糕汤？”，也即表示是问您 “几岁了”。。。

(source : wikipedia)