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Tuesday is Seollal, Korean New Year. The Korean cultural association does a concert and tables on Sunday. Karakush's Dana Pak's old dance teacher runs the children's group so there is fan screaming from the back rows every year. Food: kuksi, pigodi, my aunt's laghman (she is making 30 litres, she says this is "a small amount"), rice cakes. Everyone welcome. Bow to the old people. Do not ask them about 1937 unless they start.

wait. dana pak's dance teacher? i am taking the bus from bishkek. this is not a joke. i will be in the back row screaming

can I bring tamales or is that too much crossover

Bring them. Last year someone brought beshbarmak. My grandmother would say any food that comes with a person is good food.

i went. kids did the ak börü dance in hanbok with little wolf capes. an old man next to me said in russian "in my time we danced to kalinka" and then clapped the hardest of anyone. ate four plates. lena's aunt is a hero

She says the boy from Bishkek ate like a Talas boy and she is proud.

Bumping for this year: Tuesday 17th. Same place, same aunt, 35 litres now. She says prices went up so she made more, because "if it is expensive, it should be also enough". No Tulparcoin at the tables, she asked me to write that.

In Bishkek the Koryo-saram association did theirs in a sports hall. Same kuksi, smaller aunt. Happy New Year to all.

went with my roommate whose grandmother is from the 1937 families. she made me bow to six old people. one of them taught me to say thank you in korean and then corrected my iradi. both fair