Yaksik

Yaksik, also called yakbap, is a sweet Korean dish whose Korean names mean medicine food and medicine rice. It is made by steaming glutinous rice and mixing it with chestnuts, jujubes and pine nuts, then seasoning it with honey or brown sugar, sesame oil and soy sauce, and sometimes cinnamon. The name comes from honey, which was commonly called yak, meaning medicine, according to the early nineteenth century etymology book A-eon Gakbi. It is traditionally eaten on Jeongwol Daeboreum, the holiday on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and also at weddings and hwangap festivities. Its recorded history runs through the Samguk yusa, which ties its origin to a legend of King Soji of Silla and a crow.