Tteokbokki

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Tteokbokki  (Korean: 떡볶이), topokki or simmered rice cake, is a Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white, cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면; lit. 'rice cake noodles') or commonly tteokbokki-tteok (떡볶이 떡; lit. 'tteokbokki rice cakes'). It is often paired with eomuk (fish cakes), boiled eggs, and scallions, and seasoned with spicy gochujang (chili paste). Less often, it is served in a non-spicy ganjang-based (soy) sauce, which is sometimes called gungjung-tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki). Today, variations include curry tteokbokki, cream sauce tteokbokki, jajang-tteokbokki, seafood tteokbokki, rose tteokbokki, galbi-tteokbokki and so on. Tteokbokki is commonly purchased and eaten at bunsikjip (snack bars) as well as pojangmacha (street stalls). There are also dedicated restaurants for tteokbokki, referred to as jeukseok tteokbokki (impromptu tteokbokki). It is also a popular home dish, as the garae-tteok can be purchased in pre-packaged, semi-dehydrated...

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