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떡볶이tteok·bok·ki · Tteokbokki
Rice cake sticks in red chilli sauce with fish cake. The street snack, sold hot from a pan.
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것The deal
떡볶이 (tteok·bok·ki) is 떡 (tteok), rice cake cut into short sticks, cooked in a red 고추장 (go·chu·jang) sauce with sheets of fish cake and often a boiled egg. Visit Korea's dish page lists the extras people add now, cheese first, and a soy-sauce version for anyone who cannot take the heat.
More about it
Seoul's address for it is Sindang-dong. 신당동 떡볶이 골목 (sin·dang·dong tteok·bok·ki gol·mok) grew in the late 1970s and was famous by the 1980s, when each place had its own DJ booth; the owner of 마복림 할머니 떡볶이 says it was sold there from 1953. The dish started as rice cake in gochujang and picked up eggs, glass noodles, fish cake, instant noodles and, lately, squid, prawn and cheese. The alley is at 10-18 Dasan-ro 33-gil, Jung-gu, and Visit Seoul says the district runs a tteokbokki festival every year.
Busan does it differently. Visit Busan's street-food page says the stalls in 부평깡통시장 (bu·pyeong·kkang·tong·si·jang) use thick 가래떡 (ga·rae·tteok) and sell 물떡 (mul·tteok), plain rice cake on a skewer in fish-cake broth, a Busan and Gyeongsang habit.
하는 법How to
At a street stall it is ladled into a cup or onto a plate and you eat it with a skewer; at a snack shop you order it by the portion. Visit Korea's gimbap page suggests dipping a slice of gimbap in the sauce.
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떡볶이 1인분이랑 김밥 한 줄 주세요.
One portion of tteokbokki and a roll of gimbap, please.
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안 맵게 해 드려요?
Want it mild?
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- Tteokbokki (떡볶이 / Tteokbokki), Visit Korea (Korea Tourism Organization), Oct 19, 2023Open
- Sindang-dong Tteokbokki Town (신당동떡볶이골목), Visit Korea (Korea Tourism Organization)Open
- Sindang-dong Tteokbokki Town, Visit Seoul (Seoul Tourism Organization)Open
- 길에서 맛보는 부산여행의 묘미, Visit Busan (부산관광공사)Open
- Winter Street Food Battle: What's Your Pick?, Visit Korea (Korea Tourism Organization), Nov 19, 2025Open
Last checked Nov 4, 2026.
이어지는 것들Leads to
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛떡tteokRice cake. Chewy, lightly sweet, made from pounded or steamed rice. This autumn it is the dessert people queue for.
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛김밥GimbapRice and fillings rolled in a sheet of laver and cut into rounds. Lunch for one, sold by the roll.오늘 올라옴 up today
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛붕어빵BungeoppangA fish-shaped waffle filled with sweet red bean, baked in an iron mould on the pavement in winter.오늘 올라옴 up today
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛호떡HotteokA round of dough with brown sugar inside, pressed flat on an oiled griddle until the sugar melts into syrup. Winter street food.오늘 올라옴 up today브랜드·매장 Brands and shops · 맛편의점pyeon·ui·jeomA convenience store. In Korea it has a ramyeon cooker, a hot-water tap and a seat by the window.
동네 Neighborhoods · 길명동MyeongdongSeoul's main shopping district for visitors, about a kilometre of cosmetics shops, department stores and street carts between Myeongdong station on line 4 and Lotte's main store at Euljiro.오늘 올라옴 up today
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛마라탕MalatangA numbing, spicy Sichuan soup you build yourself. Pick the ingredients from a cold case and hand over the bowl.오늘 올라옴 up today
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛만두ManduDumplings. Thin wheat skins around meat, chives and tofu, steamed, fried crisp or dropped into soup.오늘 올라옴 up today
먹을것 Food and drink · 맛김밥GimbapRice and fillings rolled in a sheet of laver and cut into rounds. Lunch for one, sold by the roll.오늘 올라옴 up today먹을것 Food and drink · 맛붕어빵BungeoppangA fish-shaped waffle filled with sweet red bean, baked in an iron mould on the pavement in winter.오늘 올라옴 up today먹을것 Food and drink · 맛호떡HotteokA round of dough with brown sugar inside, pressed flat on an oiled griddle until the sugar melts into syrup. Winter street food.오늘 올라옴 up today브랜드·매장 Brands and shops · 맛편의점pyeon·ui·jeomA convenience store. In Korea it has a ramyeon cooker, a hot-water tap and a seat by the window.동네 Neighborhoods · 길명동MyeongdongSeoul's main shopping district for visitors, about a kilometre of cosmetics shops, department stores and street carts between Myeongdong station on line 4 and Lotte's main store at Euljiro.오늘 올라옴 up today먹을것 Food and drink · 맛마라탕MalatangA numbing, spicy Sichuan soup you build yourself. Pick the ingredients from a cold case and hand over the bowl.오늘 올라옴 up today먹을것 Food and drink · 맛만두ManduDumplings. Thin wheat skins around meat, chives and tofu, steamed, fried crisp or dropped into soup.오늘 올라옴 up today
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