Korean cooking ingredients:

Sliced rice cake

This is a vacuum-sealed pack of sliced rice cake that we use for rice cake soup. You can find it in the frozen section of the Korean grocery store.

I used to make a huge amount of sliced rice cake by myself. What I did was soak short grain rice overnight and then take it to my local mill. They had a machine to steam my rice and then make a large tube of rice cake. I would bring this tube home for one day for it to get solid. One day later I took it back to the local mill and they sliced it. If I tried to cut it myself it was too much work.

These packages are more convenient. The taste is the same, and the sizes are more uniform. And no more blisters!

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3 Comments:

  1. Mii - Li Qiu

    hey can u pls sent me a recipe how to make this rice cake!!
    I went to some asian shop but couldnt find it!
    i live in australia so ..idk!!
    thankyou! =D

    Posted December 22, 2009 at 3:54 am | #
  2. I bought the rice cake yesterday. There were all ddeok guk ddeok, but i bought the cheaper one. It hasn’t a round shape, they rather look like sticks. Is that okay to make the rice cake soup, too?

    Posted July 30, 2009 at 8:52 am | #
    • Maangchi New York City My profile page
      joined August 6, 2008

      Yes, slice the tube shape rice cake (called garaedduk: 가래떡) thinly and make ddukguk!

      Posted July 30, 2009 at 6:56 pm | #

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