Tteokbokki is
Korean for "Stir Fried Rice Cake" . Tteokbokki is one of Korea's popular street foods made of long Tteok (rice
cakes) stir-fried with assorted
vegetables, like carrots, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and
cucumbers and stewed in a
Gochujang-based
sauce.
Moreover, Tteokbokki is a popular Korean
snack food and one of Korea's rice dishes which is commonly purchased from street vendors. Originally it was called Tteok Jjim, and was a broiled dish of
sliced rice cake,
meat, eggs, and seasoning. Tteok Jjim an early variant of modern Tteobokki, was once a part of Korean royal court cuisine. This type of Tteokbokki was made by
broiling Tteok, meat, vegetables, eggs, and sesasonings in
water, and then serving it topped with gingko nuts and
walnuts. In its orginal form, Tteokbokki, which was then known as Gungjung Tteokbokki, was a dish served in the royal court and regarded as a representative example of haute
cuisine. The original Tteokbokki was a stir-fry dish consisting of Huintteok combined with a variety of
ingredients, such as
beef, bagogari, mung-
bean sprouts,
parsley,
Shiitake mushrooms,
carrots, and
onions, and seasoned with soy sauce.
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