Tteokbokki
Tteokbokki (Korean: 떡볶이), or simmered rice cake, is a popular Korean food made from small-sized garae-tteok (long, white, cylinder-shaped rice cakes) called tteokmyeon (떡면; "rice cake noodles") or commonly tteokbokki-tteok (떡볶이 떡; "tteokbokki rice cakes"). Eomuk (fish cakes), boiled eggs, and scallions are some common ingredients paired with tteokbokki in dishes. It can be seasoned with either spicy gochujang (chili paste) or non-spicy ganjang (soy sauce)-based sauce; the former is the most common form, while the latter is less common and sometimes called gungjung-tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki).
| Alternative names | Stir-fried rice cakes, derkbokee, tteobokki, tteok-bokki, topokki, dukbokki |
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| Type | Bokkeum |
| Place of origin | Korea |
| Associated cuisine | Korean cuisine |
| Main ingredients | Tteok (rice cakes), fishcake, gochujang |
| Variations | Gungjung-tteokbokki, rabokki |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 떡볶이 |
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| Revised Romanization | tteokbokki |
| McCune–Reischauer | ttŏkpokki |
| IPA | [t͈ʌk̚.p͈o.k͈i] |
Today, variations also 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, where it is referred to as jeukseok tteokbokki (impromptu tteokbokki). It is also a popular home dish, as the rice cakes (garae-tteok) can be purchased in pre-packaged, semi-dehydrated form.