Rice Cake Soup (Tteokguk)

떡국

Swearing you don't want to get any older while going back for a second bowl. Chewy rice cakes going soft in rich bone broth: the first happiness of the new year.

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❝ The long rice cake logs in tteokguk stand for a long life, and slicing them into coins is a wish to get rich, since they look like old brass money. In the Joseon era, one bowl of tteokguk literally meant you were one year older. ❞

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