Garae-tteok

Garae-tteok (가래떡) is a long, cylindrical tteok (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour.^[1][2] Grilled garae-tteok is sometimes sold as street food.^[3] Thinly (and usually diagonally) sliced garae-tteok is used for making tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year.^[4] The world record of the longest garaetteok was achieved in Dangjin, South Korea in 2018, with 5,080 metres (16,670 ft).^[5]

Garae-tteok

Type	Tteok
Place of origin	Korea
Associated cuisine	Korean cuisine
Media: Garae-tteok

Korean name
Hangul	가래떡
Revised Romanization	garae-tteok
McCune–Reischauer	karae-ttŏk
IPA	[ka.ɾɛ.t͈ʌk̚]

Preparation

It is traditionally made by steaming non-glutinous rice flour in siru (steamer), pounding it and rolling it between the palms and the table or rolling it between the palms.^[1][6] The method forms a thick, cylindrical rice cake, around 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) in diameter.^[4][6] Hand-rolled garae-tteok is not uniform in size and has variations of thickness along its length.

Modern garae-tteok is usually made by extruding the steamed rice flour with garae-tteok machines.^[6]

See also

• Tteok-bokki

References

1. "garae-tteok" 가래떡. Doopedia (in Korean). Doosan Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
2. Sifton, Sam (8 June 2016). "The Best Brownies Recipe and Other Matters". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
3. Kraig, Bruce; Sen, Colleen Taylor, eds. (2013). Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-59884-954-7. Archived from the original on 2024-09-04. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
4. 김, 성윤 (29 January 2014). "떡국떡, 넌 언제부터 삐딱했니". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
5. "Longest bar rice cake (Garae-tteok)". Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
6. 이, 효지. "garae-tteok" 가래떡. Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (in Korean). Academy of Korean Studies. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2017.