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Korea offers refreshing summer taste of lotus wrap dish

Ingredients such as grain, lotus roots, dates and nuts are put on a lotus leaf along with rice and then wrapped. The wrap is steamed in a sot (traditional caldron) to produce yeonnipbap (steamed rice wrapped in a lotus leaf).

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