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Yaksik or yakbap (literally medicinal food or medicinal rice) is a sweet Korean dish made by steaming glutinous rice and mixing with chestnuts jujubes and pine nuts. It is seasoned with honey or brown sugar sesame oil soy sauce and sometimes cinnamon. It is traditionally eaten on Jeongwol Daeboreum (정월대보름) a Korean holiday which falls on every 15 January in the lunar calendar but also for weddings and hwangap festivities.
