Taste of Home: How to Make Dalgona Candy
My Korean mother has fond childhood memories of dalgona candy, or ppopgi, so we relived them while making a batch in her New York apartment. Here’s what I learned.
Tag: Korean American
Death Anniversaries & Good Fortune: A Korean American Ghost Story
Thousands of miles away from the motherland, in the outer boroughs of New York City, my immigrant family performs a modified jesa every year that fits our evolving family dynamic and belief system.
Immigrant Songs and Unexpected Love Stories: Why You Need to Read Yoon Choi’s “Skinship”
My immigrant mother’s love language was not hugging and kissing, but rather cutting mangoes into neat cubes and plating it neatly for us, while she scraped the remaining fruit off the pit with her teeth for herself. As Sae-ri observes, “The American marriage is talking and hugging. But that is not the Korean marriage. The Korean marriage is — what. It is one day after the other. It is the breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
sarah jinee park 