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Taste Test: Tteokbokki Snack from Seoul 7-Eleven

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

tteokbokki chips

Tteokbokki is one of the most popular street snacks in Seoul, often being vended by older women in street carts everywhere you go, particularly late at night.  Tteokbokki is essentially little cylindrical rice cakes that are cooked in a spicy red sauce, and served on plates with toothpicks for about $2-3.  I don't really care for them, personally — too gummy and too spicy and not much else.

tteokbokki chipsPictured above is a tteokbokki-like snack sold in 7-Elevens all over Seoul, and presumably Korea.  They are sort of the cheap chip-equivalent of the already cheap spicy rice cakes.  

So how are they, you ask? They are surprisingly sweet upon first taste, with a nice crunchiness, like a Dorito.  After the second or third one, the heat catches up to the sweet and becomes the main aftertaste. While I don't like tteokbokki rice cakes, I do like the tteokbokki chips. Something about the sweet followed by the spicy just works for me.

If I drank beer, I bet they would go good with one.

1 thought on “Taste Test: Tteokbokki Snack from Seoul 7-Eleven”

  1. Super Bowl Hotels says:
    May 22, 2012 at 11:09 pm

    Yeah!! i have eaten this on my previous visit to Seoul. Believe me !! these are very delicious..

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