Sliced rice cake

• Korean: 떡국떡
• Romanized Korean: Duk guk duk (or tteok guk tteok)
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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!

Posted Sunday, January 18th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Tagged: 떡, 떡국, 떡국용떡, korean food, korean ingredients, Maangchi, rice cake, sliced ricecake