These small pieces of chewy rice cake are used for making patbingsu and you can usually find them in a Korean grocery store. Each serving of patbingsu usually uses several pieces. When the rice cake mixes with the sweet red beans and cold shaved ice, they get more chewy.
Which to get? Both are best sellers and either one is a good choice if you want to learn Korean home cooking. Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking has all the recipes for all the essential Korean pastes and sauces, but my second book Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking has more recipes, more photos, and more variety.
