Dasik

다식

What exactly is it?

Fine ingredient powders are bound with honey or grain syrup and pressed into small patterned molds. Flowers or characters mark the surface, while the sweet crumbles gently in the mouth. Sesame, soybean and pine-pollen versions differ in color and flavor.

Main ingredients

Soybean, rice, sesame or chestnut powder with honey or grain syrup

Ordering and serving

Finely ground sesame or soy may not be recognizable by sight. Ask which ingredient each color represents.

Origins and changes

Patterned dasik decorated wedding and banquet tables. Different colors were arranged together, combining visual design with the flavor of each powdered ingredient.

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Dasik

다식

Main ingredients: Soybean, rice, sesame or chestnut powder with honey or grain syrup
Flavor and character: Fine ingredient powders are bound with honey or grain syrup and pressed into small patterned molds. Flowers or characters mark the surface, while the sweet crumbles gently in the mouth. Sesame, soybean and pine-pollen versions differ in color and flavor.
How to eat it: Finely ground sesame or soy may not be recognizable by sight. Ask which ingredient each color represents.

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Hangwa

한과

Main ingredients: Depending on type: rice or wheat flour, honey or grain syrup, seeds, beans, nuts or fruit
Flavor and character: Hangwa is an umbrella term for traditional Korean sweets. Syrup-soaked yakgwa, airy yugwa and molded powder-based dasik differ greatly in ingredients and texture. An assortment is not simply several shapes of the same rice puff.
How to eat it: For a gift, check the ingredients of each variety, especially nuts, wheat and sesame. One assortment can contain several different recipes.

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