Making Songpyon

This trip took place near the beginning of my stay here in Korea. A group of us foreigners visited a temple in Busan near the edge of town. Each weekend this temple invites foreigners to visit and experience a new Korean tradition. On this weekend we learned how to make traditional rice cake known as Songpyon, which is often made during the Korean thanksgiving named Chusok.


After learning how to shape the little cakes, we walked down to the cooking area.


The Korean women working the cookers told us that our rice cakes looked “even better then we can make”. They were being sarcastic however, since most of our cakes looked mangled.

Here we are choking down our songpyon!

They also grew lots of hot peppers outside the temple. Hot peppers are found in a lot of food in Korea. Doesn’t it look delicious?