Delicious Korean Week

Happy Lunar New Year from Berlin! 🌕
Today, Korea celebrates Seollal (Lunar New Year), the first day of the lunar calendar.

On this morning, we eat a bowl of warm Tteokguk (Rice Cake Soup).
The long rice cake symbolizes longevity, and the white color represents purity and a fresh start, washing away the past year’s bad luck.

It reminds me of the German tradition of eating Lentil Soup (Linsensuppe) on New Year’s Day. Just as Germans eat lentils wishing for wealth (as they look like coins), sliced rice cakes in Tteokguk also resemble old coins, symbolizing prosperity.

Different ingredients, but the same wish for a warm and prosperous year. Isn‘t it beautiful how food connects our spirits?

Here is a special vegan Tteokguk recipe by Jeong Kwan Snim, using Pyogo(shiitake) mushrooms and tofu instead of meat broth.

Wishing you all a pure and peaceful start, just like this white bowl of soup.
Happy Seollal! 🙇‍♀️

🔄 Repost from
Original Recipe & Photo by Jeong Kwan Snim / Véronique Hoeggerch

Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉

Today marks the first day of the Lunar New Year in Korea. Much like Christmas in Europe, Seollal설날 is a time for families to come together, share blessings for the new year, and enjoy special foods.

One of the most symbolic dishes of Seollal is tteokguk (rice cake soup). Eating a warm bowl of tteokguk is believed to bring good fortune and health for the year ahead. The thinly sliced rice cakes resemble old Korean coins, symbolizing wealth and prosperity—just like how lentil soup is enjoyed in Germany to wish for financial luck in the new year!

Let’s say
Saehae Bok Mani Badeuseyo (ENG)
Sähä Bok Mani Badsäyo (DEU)
새해 복 많이 받으세요 (KOR)

May your year be filled with happiness, good health, and delicious food! 🥣✨


#떡국 #설날

Hey Berliners! Let's celebrate a Korean feast called Hangawi TODAY!!!

🌚🌝 한가위 잔치 Korean Thanks Giving
같은 달을 보고 있다 Looking at the same moon 🌚🌝

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Hi, Berliners 👋🏻
On the 29th evening, we will see the largest full moon of the year.
What do you think when you see a big bright full moon?
Does it remind you of the face of someone? Someone you care about, maybe a family member, a friend, or a loved one. Maybe one who is living far away from you.
Even at such distances, we can see the same moon.
End of this month we wants to celebrate 한가위 - the Korean thanks giving day together.
We’ll enjoy festive foods, drinks, and music, or we might dancing 강강수월래 under the moon.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, you are all invited ✨

📅 When?
29. 9. 2023 (Fri) 16:00 - 23:00

📍Where?
Neukölln Kindl areal
Vollguter Gemeinschaftsgarten
Am Sudhaus 4, 12053 Berlin

🪅 K-Creators & Brands Market🎨

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. and more!

🪩 Korean 90s, 00s - to - new jeans playlist 💃

🎤 Live Music 🎵


🥢 Korean 잔치 Food 🍲
Kimchi Pancake & Japchae Noodle

🇩🇪 Berlin Special: Kimchi Börek 🌯

🍻 So-maek, Soju Cocktails.. 🍸

And more!

Let's meet amazing K-creators here!
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ABOUT CELESTIAL FESTIVAL:
This two-day festival features a market with food and stalls, film screenings (featuring Q+As with directors) panel discussions, round table discussions, performances, and a club night with live music and DJ sets.
The Celestial Festival pays respect to the Lunar-Solar Calendar utilised by many Asian Diasporic communities. The Lunar Calendar is a means of anchoring diasporic communities to their cultures through the moon and celestial bodies – preserving deep connections that withstand displacement and pressure to “assimilate” in Germany – a guiding tool for those disconnected.
During Asia-Pacific Heritage month, we centre this festival around voices and talent from our communities by providing a platform for up-and-coming talents; celebrating us through music, sound, taste and visuals. We offer the Celestial Festival as a connecting and anchoring force in Berlin for our community, and an entry point for pan-Asian or pan-BIPOC solidarity, empowerment and commonness.
Ultimately, we are expanding the meaning of “Asian” from just the East to also include South, Central, West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa – creating a representative and accurate view of Asia and the Asian diasporic community.
IMPORTANT INFO:
Alte Münze is a barrier-free location with an accessible toilet on site.
This event is only possible through funding from as well as the proceeds of ticket sales. Ticket sales only go into operational costs. There are no profits being made off of the event itself.
Please note that we will not tolerate any form of discrimination, racism, anti-semitism, islamophobia, classism, q***r phobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. at our event.
Poster and ⁠Graphics by Tessa Curran () Graphic Design by Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly ()⁠ and Hanna Kang (.berlin)