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Article: Moon soup: my Lunar New Year. (Chinese and Korean New Year's celebration)
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- Instructor (1990)
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- January 1, 1997
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My Lunar New Year
Even though I am Chinese and Korean, I grew up thinking of the Lunar New Year as Chinese New Year. Teachers always called it that; newspapers, too. And my Korean mother never corrected me. The only Korean thing we did at the Lunar New Year was to eat a soup called duk gook, which was supposed to make me one year wiser - or one year older, at least. The way she cooked it, with cheap beef and frozen rice disks, I hated it. Often I would play a game, taking a bite out of each disk so it looked like a crescent moon. My bowl was a scene from outer space, scallion spaceships swimming from moon to moon, dodging asteroids of beef and comets of scrambled ...