A wonderful story about the joys of family and food, from Newberry Award-winning author Linda Sue Park. Bee-bim bop ("mix-mix rice") is a traditional Korea dish. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungary child tells of helping her mother make bee-bim bops: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and sitting down to enjoy a favorite meal. The enthusiasm of the narrator is conveyed in the whimsical illustrations, which brings details from the artist's childhood in Korea to his depiction of a modern Korean American family, The book includes Linda Sue's own bee-bim bop recipe!