Pasta and Korean dishes
Rice cakes: puffed snack cakes vs Korean tteok
Rice cakes can mean crisp puffed rounds or chewy Korean tteok used in tteokbokki. Learn how each is made, how they taste, how to cook them and how they differ.
Pasta and Korean dishes
Plain-English explainers for pasta shapes and sauces, tteokbokki and the Korean dishes behind the rice cake and pasta plates a cafe like this serves.
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Pasta and Korean dishes
Tteokbokki pronunciation: how to say it and order it
Tteokbokki pronunciation made simple: say "tuk-BOK-ee". Learn what each syllable means, the common spellings on menus, and how to order the dish with confidence.
Pasta and Korean dishes
Cheese tteokbokki: how melted cheese changes the dish
Cheese tteokbokki is Korean rice cakes in spicy sauce topped with melted cheese. See why cheese is added, how it tastes, which cheeses melt best and how to make it.
Pasta and Korean dishes
Rose tteokbokki: the creamy pink rice cake dish explained
Rose tteokbokki is chewy Korean rice cakes in a pink sauce of gochujang and cream. Learn how it tastes, how it differs from red tteokbokki and how to make it.