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yakgwa

yakgwa noun: a type of Korean dessert made with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice.

yakgwa: a type of Korean dessert made with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice
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Noun

yakgwa

  1. A type of Korean dessert made with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice.
    • Perhaps no Korean dish represents the value of honey more than the ancient dessert yakgwa, a deep-fried honey cookie soaked in syrup. Yakgwa (“yak” means medicine and “gwa” means confection) is more than a vessel for coveted sweetness.2023 September 18, Eric Kim, “The Amber Gleam of Yakgwa, South Korea’s ‘It’ Cookie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of yakgwa

Borrowed from Korean 약과 (yakgwa).

Questions about yakgwa

What does yakgwa mean?
Yakgwa means a type of Korean dessert made with honey, rice wine, sesame oil, and ginger juice.
What part of speech is yakgwa?
Yakgwa is a noun.

Words near yakgwa in the dictionary

  1. yakety-yakked
  2. yakety-yakking
  3. yakety-yaks
  4. yakfest
  5. yakfests
  6. yakgwa
  7. Yakhai
  8. yakhchal
  9. yakhchals
  10. yakhdan
  11. yakhdans

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