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Garae-tteok (가래떡) is a long, cylindrical tteok (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour. [1] [2] Grilled garae-tteok is sometimes sold as street food. [3]Thinly (and usually diagonally) sliced garae-tteok is used for making tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. [4]
Tteokbokki (Korean: 떡볶이), [pronunciation?] or simmered rice cake, is a popular 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).
Tteok offered to spirits is called boktteok ("good fortune rice cake") and shared with neighbours and relatives. It is also one of the celebratory foods used in banquets, rites, and various festive events. Tteokguk ("rice cake soup") is shared to celebrate Korean New Year and songpyeon is shared on Chuseok, a harvest festival.
Tteokguk [2] (Korean: 떡국) or sliced rice cake soup [2] is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup with thinly sliced rice cakes . Eating tteokguk on New Year's Day is traditionally believed to grant good luck for the year and confer one sal (a year of age).
Tteok guk (떡국) is a soup made with slices of rice cake. The base is usually beef or anchovy (멸치) stock along with the rice cake slices, and most variations also have sliced green onions, eggs dropped into the soup, and are usually served with strips or pieces of laver (김; many variations will be baked or fried and salted/seasoned).
Hwajeon (화전) – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose; Bukkumi (부꾸미), pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape [3] Juak (주악), made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried.
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Tteok or glutinous rice cakes of the region are given unconventional names and are larger and simpler in form than those of Seoul, such as songgi tteok which is a rice cake made with the inner bark of pine trees, [15] golmi tteok (thimble-shaped rice cake), [16] kkojang tteok (tteok covered with steamed bean crumbles), [17] ppong tteok (tteok ...