새해복많이받으세요!! ^^*~

So the Lunar New year was yesterday...a very long, pleasing, and nostalgic day ^^*!~

So a belated: 새해복많이받으세요!! ^^*~
     Tradition holds that you go to your elder's house (oldest in the family) and in this case I went to my 할아버지 and my 할머니 home*!~ It is a day of respecting your elders and ancestors and...just a very family oriented day*!~
     The day before the actual lunar year you spend the day preparing food and 반찬 This food will be presented to your ancestors and then eaten by you..ㅎㅎㅎ
     The Lunar new year involves a lto of eating, traditional games, and respecting those wonderful elders of yours...and you say "새해복많이받으세요." while bowing, hold out your hands and get money. But you only get money from thos eolder than you...aiii
Anyways..my New year consisted of kicking it with family, making more 만두 then imagined, eating and Jack Black.
When I got there..there were lots of Vegan Eats...whoa...I never eat this much...holidays, you kill me 

traditional 떡 국, ginseng roots, mushrooms, lotus root, mountain 반찬, and 잡채 (photo taken by VeganBeats)

김치만두 mission~~

김치 만두 (photo taken by VEganBeats)

김치만두 pre-steamed (photo taken by VeganBeats)

김치만두steamed and fried....whoaa(photo taken by VeganBeats)

 There were also a series of rice cakes and deserts grabbed to celebrate this lunar new year!!

from left to right: persimmon rice cakes, citrus rice cakes, a bunch of bready (non-vegan_ bean cakes, and sesame seed/oil cookies (photo taken by VeganBeats)

close up of the rice cakes/crackers...pine nuts, citrus, and persimmon (photo taken by VeganBeats)

 I don't know what these are called but the can be made vegan and though not healthy...nom nom nom~_~

sugar weakness right here....>_<# (photo taken by VeganBeats)

 After ltos of eating, laughing, and kickign it, we all went to Jack Black's new movie Gulliver's Travels....U'll review it later...but ending with a cute shot of my grents*!~