Korean street food tteokbokki eaten at the royal court

01. Street food eaten by Korean kings?

During the Joseon Dynasty, it was also a royal food.
What's this?
This is Tteokbokki, a representative street food in Korea.
In Korea's long history, the birth of tteokbokki is based on various legends.
Among them, there was a tteokbokki restaurant in Sindang-dong, Seoul in the 1950s.
The owner's grandmother accidentally put Chinese rice cake in a bowl of jajangmyeon.
From what she dropped, she started eating bar rice cakes in red pepper paste.

The name tteokbokki means 'frying garaetteok'.
However, we often eat it.
Tteokbokki is not fried, but boiled in a pot with 'boiled' or 'tang'.
How did this tteokbokki become a royal food?

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02. What is palace tteokbokki?

For royal tteokbokki, cut garae-tteok and add beef, vegetables, etc.
It is seasoned and fried. In the 1800s cookbook <Sijeonseo(是議全書)>, there is a content that ‘I made steamed rice cakes with white rice cakes, sirloin meat, soy sauce, and green onions in the palace and ate them.’
Inspired by Korean 'japchae', this dish uses raw vegetables, dried vegetables, and beef as the main ingredients and uses rice cakes instead of vermicelli noodles.
It is seasoned with soy sauce. The king who lost his appetite at that time
It is also said that after tasting tteokbokki in the royal court, he regained his appetite, and since then it has established itself as the royal 'New Year's cuisine' (a dish that everyone spends to rest without doing household chores).

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03. The taste of tteokbokki comes from the sauce!

It is similar to today's bright red tteokbokki, but has a different charm.Tteokbokki has a variety of flavors depending on what seasoning is added.
The taste is determined by the side dishes that can be eaten together, the ingredients such as various vegetables, and the important seasoning base.
Sauce is really important, soy sauce base like royal tteokbokki,
There is also the familiar gochujang sauce.
Yopokki has cheese, onion butter, jjajang, sweet & spicy, etc.
There are various flavored sauces. From the taste of traditional tteokbokki that was enjoyed in the royal court
Tteokbokki in various flavors.
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