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Tteokbokki, a dish from South Korea

Tteokbokki

South Korea

Also known as Topokki, Spicy Rice Cakes

About Tteokbokki

Tteokbokki is a popular Korean street food of chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet, spicy red sauce made with gochujang (chili paste). It is often cooked with fish cakes, boiled eggs and scallions.

The cylindrical rice cakes (garae-tteok) are soft and chewy. The sauce is made from gochujang, chili flakes, sugar and soy sauce.

In the royal court, tteokbokki was a non-spicy dish made with soy sauce. The spicy version was created in the 1950s in Seoul's Sindang-dong, now famous for tteokbokki restaurants.

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