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Tteok (Rice Cake)

- Gyeongdan (Sweet Rice Balls)
Dessert / Tteok (Rice Cake)
- Gyeongdan is a type of rice cake made by kneading glutinous rice powder with
hot water, shaping the dough into balls, boiling them in hot water and coating
them with various sweet powders. It gets its name because the shape is similar
to round jade (gyeongdan). The color or taste varies depending on the coating
powder.

- Jeungpyeon (Rice Wine Cake)
Dessert / Tteok (Rice Cake)
- Jeungpyeon is a type of rice cake made by kneading rice powder with milky
rice wine, garnishing it with jujubes, chestnuts, pine nuts and stone mushrooms,
and then steaming it in a cake mold. Jeungpyeon is a good rice cake for the
summer because it is fermented with wine, and does not spoil easily. It has
a unique wine aroma, slightly sour taste and soft texture.

- Yaksik (Sweet Rice with Nuts and Jujubes)
Dessert / Tteok (Rice Cake)
- Yaksik is a sweet dish made with steamed glutinous rice, honey, soy sauce,
jujubes, chestnuts and pine nuts. It may also be called yakbap (medicinal bap).
It is said that yaksik was prepared and served to the crows as a reward for
saving the king's life in the Silla Dynasty.