Food beyond boundaries..
A very good friend of mine kind enough to get me a Korean healthy snack called 'Yakgwa' , when I tasted it..it just reminded me of my moms Athirsam..Athirsam is a South Indian snack made of Rice and Brown sugar. When I looked in to the ingredients of Yakgwa it said the same thing. What a coincidence!!!! Then I start to think of all the Korean snacks I have tried which has similar texture ,taste and ingredients but their shape is different. This is the just small list of Korean-South Indian snacks to my knowledge which I tasted personally and found they are similar. Pictures I took from google images and PC are listed at the end.. 1. Steamed Rice cakes: In Tamil we call Kozhukatai and in Korean its called Songpyeon (half moon cake). Both are made of rice flour and stuffed with sesame seeds or nuts with brown sugar. Kozhukatai is a special dish which is specially made for Lord Ganesha on his birthday (Hindu elephant face god ) and Songpyeon is made specially fo...