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| Alternative names | Stir-fried rice cake, 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] |
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").[1][2] 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,[3] while the latter is less common and sometimes called gungjung-tteokbokki (royal court tteokbokki).
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 garae-tteok can be purchased in pre-packaged, semi-dehydrated form.
- ^ National Institute of Korean Language (30 July 2014). 주요 한식명(200개) 로마자 표기 및 번역(영, 중, 일) 표준안 (PDF) (in Korean). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- 주요 한식명 로마자 표기 및 표준 번역 확정안 공지. National Institute of Korean Language (Press release) (in Korean). 2014-05-02. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ 이, 석희 (24 March 2009). [백년맛집] 쌀떡·밀가루떡·칼라떡까지…떡볶이 떡도 다양해. The Daily Sports (in Korean). Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ Lee, Jiyeon (29 May 2012). "Don't say we didn't warn you: Korea's 5 spiciest dishes". CNN Go. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.