yaksik

Yaksik () or yakbap () 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 (), a Korean holiday which falls on the 15th day of the 1st month of the Korean calendar (lunisolar), but also for weddings and hwangap festivities.

==Etymology== Yaksik got its name due to the use of honey in its ingredients. According to the etymology book A-eon Gakbi () written in early 19th century Joseon, it is noted that honey was commonly called as yak (medicine). Thus honey buckwheat wine was called yakju (), honey rice was called yakban (약반, old word for yaksik), and fried honey ricecake was called yakgwa ().