These chewy, lightly sweet, sesame-filled rice cakes are a star of the Korean mid-autumn festival known as Chuseok. Crispy-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside rice cakes play well as a pasta ...

At a rice cake shop in Seoul’s Insadong neighborhood, asking for ggultteok (sweet rice cakes) draws a puzzled reaction: “Why ...

Tteokbokki, also spelt ddeokbokki (and many other variations), is a Korean ... has lots of rice cakes swimming in a spicy sauce, sometimes with a few small pieces of onion or fish cake.

Food can reveal so much about a culture’s history and values. Tteok (떡), Korean rice cake, is enjoyed by many Koreans as a dessert, a seasonal delicacy, and even a meal. Different types of tteok are ...