garaetteok pages

  1. Garaetteok (cylinder-shaped rice cakes for tteokguk or tteokbokki)

    Hello everybody! Today I’ll show you how to make a homemade Korean rice cake called garaetteok. Most of you know what tteok means, right? That’s rice cake. But what about garae? What is it, and what does it have to do with this rice cake? There are a few theories about that. One of them is that garae comes from the […]

  2. Rice cake soup (Tteokguk)

    Teeokguk (rice cake soup) is a delicious, light but filling soup made of disc-shaped rice cakes in a clearish, milky broth. Koreans traditionally eat it first thing on New Years Day (Jan 1st) and on Seollal (Korean New Year’s Day) for good luck in the coming year!