It is a sadness that sometimes stops her from wanting to live, but that doesn’t affect her appetite for tteokbokki (rice cakes in spicy sauce). You might, however, be a tiny bit jealous of her timing.

STORY OF THE BOOK: Baek Sehee, a young social media director at a publishing ... If she’s truly hopeless, why does she still crave tteokbokki? Is this just what life is? GUEST: Dr. Jane Park, Senior ...

A magical go-to food enjoyed by South Koreans is "tteokbokki," a popular snack of chewy rice cakes slathered in a spicy sauce made from red pepper paste with additions of fish cakes and boiled ...

Tteokbokki is a Korean dish that is known not only for its exquisite sauce, which is a perfect balance of salty, sweet, spicy ...

Tteokbokki, also spelt ddeokbokki (and many other variations), is a Korean dish of simmered rice cakes. There are many versions, including the rather luxurious, non-spicy “royal tteokbokki ...