Making Iconic Street Food at Home: Korean Tteokbokki

Ji Hye Kim, chef and owner of Miss Kim in Ann Arbor, MI is making tteokboki, a chewy, crispy, spicy, and savory street snack that’s wildly popular in Korea. The star of Ji Hye’s recipe is Korean rice cakes, which she softens in water and then fries in a pan with pork belly and simmers in a sweet and spicy gochujang sauce. Paired with soft-boiled eggs and scallions, you’ll immediately understand why tteokboki is a hit on Ji Hye’s restaurant menu.
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[@samklinich9150]

I worked at her restaurant for a while and cooked this dish countless times a day. Always hits the spot!

[@benjaminmcginty6302]

I LOVE this dish. More people around the world need to try it. You'll fall in love.

[@TheFoox]

Tried it. It's disgusting.

[@sherryo360]

A serving has 100 carbs

[@quacki614]

@@TheFoox noob cook

[@TribblePaintingCompany]

Love seeing local favorites! Miss Kim is such an amazing place!!

[@mrboatshoe]

Love the way she explained everything. I've had the sauce in the jar before but never knew how to make from scratch. 👍👍👍

[@NagikunX]

Only version I've tried is the saucy, anchovy broth type (both from our local Korean restaurant and once homemade). Looking forward to trying this!

[@kevinwhite6176]

First, I love tteokbokki. Second, I didn't know this kind of tteokbokki existed. Third, I can actually go and try this out because I live near ann arbor!

[@Alice_Walker]

I love this lady's energy ✨

[@housecat6654]

Thanks for sharing this recipe! It’s one of my favorites and I order it every time I eat at Miss Kim.

[@Tonz_of_Fun]

I have never had this dish but I've seen it on so many channels and it just looks good.

[@prof_dr_acula]

I miss having Tteokbokki in Seoul after a night of drinking so much. But I love everything about this video. Great dish, great presenter / cook.

[@peoplepeople21]

Any recommendations for Seoul, going there in August?

[@edithrodriguez8116]

I can’t wait to try this …this looks really delicious 🤗🥰

[@luci4087]

this is a version of oil tteokboki. oil tteokboki is not as common as “regular” tteokboki, but it’s still considered a street food. it can be found in some parts of korea. if it’s too spicy or sweet, you can always alter it. if you don’t want the egg in it or you want it cooked more or less, you can alter that too. not a big deal people.

[@GomushinGirl]

Well, yes and no - it's a market food more than a street food (a distinction without difference, perhaps) but if people go to Korea and expect to find this, they're going to have a VERY hard time finding it because it's essentially sold in just one neighborhood, and even there, it's not even the most common kind of tteokpokki.

[@jaccokuiper]

@@GomushinGirl do you know where to find it?

[@GomushinGirl]

@@jaccokuiper yes, you can get it in Tongin Market (통인시장) in Seochon, at Gyeongbokgung St. on line 3 in Seoul

[@jaccokuiper]

@@GomushinGirl nice thanks :)

[@Terratetradon]

Don't be nitpicky

[@nuclearbananas3]

looks so delicious!!

[@ministerredeemed1498]

I am totally addicted to this stuff!! ❤❤❤

[@fortniteprose]

I love making this recipe!

[@Sanrio_Slooot]

This version looks so good!

[@FoodWOWyt]

I watched this video several times but every time I watch I feel happy ❤❤❤

[@jimmyzhu1741]

This looks so good.

[@JJL3EE]

This is one of my favorite dishes!

[@Tobias.d]

Yoooo she’s the best! We need more of her! Thoroughly enjoyed listening to her.

[@Delores777]

Awesome! I would love to visit!!

[@agent_230]

Absolutely excellent explanation of the steps in this recipe. I love hearing how each component contributes to the dish! Great recipe 😃

[@Tobias.d]

Even saying don’t pour the rice cakes out coz of the water in the bowl. Not her first rodeo. Loved it

[@kinsleyo3965]

I made this last week, so good.

[@davejh3514]

Made this dish for the first time today and finished off a plateful just a few seconds ago. Absolutely delish!!!

[@MeowTV06]

Looks so yummy 😲

[@limoncello946]

Looks super good

[@peternixon1460]

Tried this for the first time recently. I really liked it, a bit like gnocchi.

[@DurinThe_Deathless]

Excellent.

[@Dawn._]

기름떡볶이다 ㅎㅎ 일반 떡볶이보다 좀 더 자극적이고 구운 다음 양념에 버무리기 때문에 겉은 바삭하고 쫄깃해서 맛있죠. 전 국물떡볶이를 더 좋아하긴 하지만요. ㅋㅋㅋ

[@suavelishes]

yummy! 😋

[@otterspotter]

Ooh! I only just moved back to Ann Arbor recently. I will have to stop by your restaurant soon.

[@VerhoevenSimon]

Always interesting to learn more about international dishes.

[@agosh05]

Excited to see Chef Kim get much deserved attention lately!

[@somerandomfella]

6 minute eggs are the best! 🤤🤤🤤

[@OlDirtyChinesRestaurant]

lived in korea for 20+ years and the main thing i miss is the food. most korean restaurants aint got shit on the real deal. 💚

[@CC-rx4nv]

We also have rice cakes in Chinese food and my favorite is with beef. 😋

[@NamChin846]

interesting take on tteokbokki ^^

[@renatakamitsuji6370]

Ann Arbor ❤️❤️❤️

[@Yummycash]

would love to try this oneday

[@Handsanitzer792]

Loved their restaurant the food was amazing

[@SCFick318]

“Americans won’t like it” Bro this shit is one of my favorite dishes ever hahahaha

[@roxanbradley91]

I like this version better without the ramen. I think I’ll try this again w/o ramen. Thanks for the recipe.

[@TickleBeryMoon]

Bro I love her shirt lol

[@victorechavarria3703]

Me gusta

[@valeriatodd7215]

Can this be prepared ahead? And how long can be kept in fridge in case if there are left overs.

[@j.p.pratna9986]

How did you do the super thin dried chili slices for garnish? I'd watch that video. Thanks.

[@00Julian00]

koreans sell it sliced

[@lawriequinney1793]

Rabbokki is on another level tho

[@film5539]

does anyone know how they captured the audio for this?

[@samuelljackson.]

It's will be spicy with extra sweet

[@snoopanoop7705]

🤤

[@paulb1140]

Why would Americans not like this? It's sweet, savory pork and chewy noodles in an awesome sauce with an egg lol. There's nothing "weird" about this at all.

[@housecat6654]

My Korean mom would have said the same thing Miss Kim’s friends said. If you read the comments you’ll understand. This is a great recipe and Miss Kim (the restaurant) serves one of the freshest, most delicious foods around. I order this dish every time.

[@poika22]

weird name

[@3casesbelly]

texture might be new to them, not like noodles

[@reptilespantoso]

🙂 mmmmhh

[@yeahman1756]

this dish is always fire, but most tends to cook it on the sweeter side with the sauec..which i don't like i preferred the spicy and savory side of it..

[@BeboRulz]

She is so adorable, I would watch her cook anything 😊

[@mescellaneous]

what pan is that?

[@ThePieMaster219]

Well it does certainly look a lot different from the classic; but Korea itself right now has a huge trend with tteokbokki undergoing a massive fusion change. There's even what's called a 로제떡볶이; personally not a fan but it uses cream in the sauce. A lot of toppings get added to it too, including even ramen noodles (fun fact, this was actually invented by some highschool girl who brought ramen noodles to a tteokbokki stand in Sindang-dong; an area historically well known for the dish!) If anyone's interested, look up the history of tteokbokki, forgot the name of the guy who made a video of the history of tteokbokki with English subs... Edit: it's 이오IO.

[@luci4087]

for those people who can’t read korean, 로제떡볶이 is rosé tteokbokki.

[@jsl02008]

I have this with my wife once a month.

[@Bigboyshrek9405]

Let’s go

[@PjHaen]

What is the purpose of adding oil to the pan before frying the pork belly?

[@streetchefyt]

🤤🤤🤤♥

[@pierlucaangrisano6510]

Isn’t it good to boil them slightly before pan frying them?

[@KDluvR-in6hl]

That's why she soaked them beforehand, the sauce being cooked with it mostly helped it along the rest of the way. But traditionally, you do boil them and this is much thicker than regular ddeokbokki. This dish has lots of varieties and they're all good in their own way

[@anarchodandyist]

Those are some proper old eggs.

[@alexiwells4993]

I burned mine a little but still delicious

[@veggielord]

Had to double check but they eat this in the first episode of Squid Game. I’ve had many of street vendor steak but never this. Funny how it’s swapped depending on where you live.

[@SandroM_]

Cooking with fire > cooking with electricity

[@stirlingfromla]

Where is the PRINTER Version on the website?

[@JKboi27]

Definitely not the typical style you see all over Korea, but looks solid

[@UnitedCuisines]

Is the Tteokboki sauce usually made with bacon/pork? Like when I d order it from a street vendor... I thought it s vegetarian/helal :/

[@zbqmaktmxj]

It isn’t

[@karmickoala101]

In US maybe? Basic sauce rendered with bacon bits for a flavor hack. In korea, it will be just gochujang sauce with any "allium" plant of the choices. Oligosaccharides (common korean sugar syrup, but better than sugar) and soy sauce at the end. You're right, totally halal and vegetarian

[@KDluvR-in6hl]

Definitely not vegetarian normally, it's usually made with a base for the sauce made with usually fish, like sardines, or that pork if you want a slightly different flavour. Vegetarian broth doesn't give it that flavour it needs. At least with this though you could just keep the pork out at home if you want to make it yourself

[@kakuella]

I haven't seen street vender with meat like pork in it but usually it has seafood broth in it (cheap place will alter it will simple msg though). So it's not vegetarian but if you are ok with seafood then you are still in safer side. when in doubt, stay with mini kimbop with no meat in it. It's definitely vegetarian

[@GomushinGirl]

It's not vegetarian because the stock used to make it has anchovies in it, but generally it's halal (depending on the presence of fish cakes and what's in the fish cakes themselves). This is not normal tteokpokki. This is like a chef's spin on a very specific, geographically confined version of tteokpokki called "oil tteokpokki" but none of the existing versions of that style include pork, either. Essentially, the pork is to be chef-y, not because it's normally part of the food.

[@usd500]

We need Chris Choi on here

[@lancestarjumper]

Thus stuff should be dirt cheap but every where I go it's $13 and up! And that doesn't take into account the cheese, and ramen that is mandatory.

[@chefharshit4081]

Hello Munchies 😍😍your cooking skills is awesome and I love it ,I want you to post your recipes skills on this khal worlds platform you will get lost of appreciation for your lovely cooking recipes....😍😍

[@zbqmaktmxj]

기름 떡볶이네

[@andy_et_cetera]

Your recipe says 25 garlic cloves?! Is that a mistake? It must be, right? :O

[@animusdx]

Says to not make egg drop soup... ends up making egg drop soup anyways lol. Found that funny

[@_Blu-jay]

25 garlic cloves!?

[@gab.lab.martins]

I would like to see the rice cakes being made from scratch, because I can't find them anywhere.

[@arianakhan2588]

Maangchi has a tutorial on how to make them!

[@GomushinGirl]

Because nobody sensible makes them from scratch. They're all machine-made these days because the effort to hand-make this particular kind of tteok is really, really not worth it.

[@gab.lab.martins]

@@GomushinGirl But again, I have no access to them anywhere in the country/countries I live in.

[@GomushinGirl]

@@gab.lab.martins It shouldn't be too hard to find them online, but really, they're not much of a home project (which is why historically they were mostly part of royal cuisine and holiday food). The other thing not mentioned in the video is that this style is usually made with mil ttoek (wheat cakes) rather than ssal tteok (rice cakes) ~ you can sub whichever one is easiest to find. The wheat version is usually more slender than the rice ones, which gives a better crispy texture. If you really want, you can look up recipes online ~ Babish Culinary Universe has an episode where they make the fat kind from rice flour.

[@gab.lab.martins]

@@bibibabo123 Thank you!

[@kaliguy47]

Pass..

[@kevlon_]

Your loss

[@jeemoon1626]

Wait. I thought everyone ate tteokboki and jjajang myun.

[@tammyfoster197]

Ever since the beginning of the Covid lock down, I started making my own Asian foods. I never knew how easy most of their recipes are. At the restaurants, they seem so complex. The pros of making your own is that you know exactly what is in it. The cons are that you don't get to sit and relax while someone else is cooking. Lol!

[@corruptbytes]

anyone add kimchi or cheese to the dish?

[@brittle1]

What about Chinese tteokboki?

[@GomushinGirl]

This is not anything like tteokpokki you'd get on the street in Korea ~ there's nothing "street style" about it. But importantly, this is essentially a variation of "oil tteokpokki" which is a really, really specific style that's essentially confined to one area of northern Seoul (specifically, the markets of the western half of Seochon). There should really be better acknowledgement of the stylistic influences and origins of the one being made here, as well as better explanations of how this differs from the standard tteokpokki actually served on the streets of Korea.

[@peternixon1460]

Thanks Korean Karen

[@xMorumoto]

She did though, she said that what you currently see is more of a braised style in a gochujang sauce instead of what she’s making in the video

[@GomushinGirl]

@@xMorumoto It's actually more specific than that, though - the version I'm referring to is different than the normal version you'd see at most street vendors. There is one specific area of Seoul that does a pan-fried version called gireum (oil) tteokpokki, which is a pretty clear antecedent of the style she's making, which again, is very different from the standard street style. To clarify, there is a common street style, which she does mention isn't quite the same as hers. What she does not mention is the style that emerged in the 70s around Okin-dong and Tongin and Geumjeonkyo Markets, which seems to be what hers is based on, where the tteok are pan fried with sauce rather than boiled/braised.

[@GomushinGirl]

@@peternixon1460 You're welcome, know-nothing rando on the internet.

[@walidamin1804]

I know how important specifics are when it comes to food, but we have to remember that this is supposed to be a very accessible video recipe.

[@lynnedriscoll9414]

Curious why you couldn’t have this as a kid.

[@ifoldinhalfsoeasily]

She said it was because she grew up eating home cooking instead of street food, kind of like if someone raised it's the US was only allowed to eat home cooking and not McDonald's

[@kevlon_]

If squid game is any indication it's considered cheap and shitty fast food by some people

[@GomushinGirl]

@@kevlon_ It's street food and it's fast, but it's not considered "shitty" ~ it's a very normal thing for folks to get as a snack, especially kids. I'm betting her family was very hoity-toity.

[@Mr3344555]

2nd

[@kikkirow]

This looks like Korean gnocchi

[@blessembreaks]

really wish my ppl would spell things the way they are pronounced. Koreans believe that all U’s sound like oooh so when a U that is pronounced like uh comes around, they think an EO makes an uh sound. This dish should be spelled Dduck-boke-Ggee

[@Amnok]

We don't care

[@peacefulmind9162]

It’s not authentic at all meat in tteokbokki?! 😅 looks delicious tho

[@50CeNTTTTT]

First! I just love when I get that notification or pop up saying "You have a new subscriber!" Or "Somebody just liked your comment!" Makes my day better!!!!!!🍀🥴

[@dinoyong9800]

That much sugar! Also double as deserts

[@poika22]

the food looks great but whoever color corrected this video got really lazy

[@pooljunkies123]

I knew there was sugar in this dish but that looked like a lot of sugar! Haha

[@KRayxKodessA]

When she's cutting the pork belly... I can't... the knife is so close to her index finger.

[@happykim621]

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[@destinyjohn7256]

I Know Mr. Billiot I invest with him too, i make about a 7,000USD every month.

[@destinyjohn7256]

@Billiot

[@destinyjohn7256]

*He's active on Tel'gram☝️*

[@poika22]

what the hell

[@TheCornBanana]

Your friends are snooty and diminutive generalists, chef Kim I hope you've shown them how wrong they are.

[@markkao9954]

She must be a fan of Doug DeMuro…tap tap tap tap

[@vadave311]

Soak in hot water from the faucet?........no thanks. Have you ever seen the inside of a water heater? You should never consume water heater water.

[@Rokegle135]

Filter under the sink???????????

[@jjsof]

Haha you sound British- there are instant hot water heater that the water is fresh bro, you should get one

[@fagguchan4349]

No.

[@crazycraft]

anxiety watching her cut things. can tell she's not classically trained or worked in a proper kitchen.

[@inmydarkesthour2278]

Is hard boiled egg really okay though? I hate recipes being compromised because people fear things they dont know for dumb reasons...like if you can't handle how things are really eaten then go back to your nuggets and fries lol

[@Faze-2]

Why on earth do you care? It doesn't affect you at all and we are talking about food not something serious. Gatekeeping like this is just so weird to me.

[@GomushinGirl]

Hard boiled eggs are normal - eggs in tteokpokki are always served hard boiled. It's her runny yolk version that's the deviation.

[@poika22]

@@Faze-2 literally nothing wrong with gatekeeping

[@MrTheHeadlines]

My ex Korean/Japanese girlfriend use to love eatin this shit lol and also tokiyaki some shit like that’s fried squid balls her taste buds had me sick lmao but I understand shit just be different in what you like