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Tteokbokki
Korean rice cakes
Tteokbokki (떡볶이), or simmered rice cake, is
a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white,
cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면; "rice cake
noodles") or commonly tteokbokki-tteok (떡볶이 떡; "tteokbokki rice
cakes").Eomuk (fish cakes), boiled eggs, and scallions are some common
ingredients paired with tteokbokki in dishes.
It can be seasoned with either spicy gochujang (chili paste) or
non-spicy ganjang (soy sauce)-based sauce; the former is the most common
form, while the latter is less common and sometimes called
gungjung-tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki). Today, variations also
include curry-tteokbokki, cream sauce-tteokbokki, jajang-tteokbokki,
seafood-tteokbokki, rose-tteokbokki, galbi-tteokbokki and so on.
Tteokbokki is commonly purchased and eaten at bunsikjip (snack bars) as
well as pojangmacha (street stalls). There are also dedicated
restaurants for tteokbokki, where it is referred to as jeukseok
tteokbokki (impromptu tteokbokki). It is also a popular home dish, as
the rice cakes (garae-tteok) can be purchased in pre-packaged,
semi-dehydrated form.