korean food 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. Short grain rice flour (Mepssalgaru)

    Many people who watched my rice cake videos that use frozen rice flour and who haven’t used rice flour before asked me many questions about it. Rice flour (ssalgaru) is flour made from finely milled rice. Koreans usually use one of two kinds of ssalgaru for making rice cakes: chapssalgaru (sweet rice flour) and maepssalgaru. Maepssalgaru is made with short grain […]