Tteokbokki in South Korea - 19 Restaurant Picks

Wheat rice cakes simmer in a mild, gently sweet broth like school-gate tteokbokki, and fried snacks or flat dumplings g…

There is no sign, so finding the door off a Daeheung-ro alley takes some looking. Instead of rice cakes in thick, sweet…

The jeukseok tteokbokki, rice cakes simmered at the table, comes with jjolmyeon noodles, egg and fried dumplings alread…

No second orders are taken. Decide up front how much tteokbokki to get along with ramen, chewy jjolmyeon noodles, fish…

Thick, almost sujebi-like noodles sit in a broth heavy with shiitake mushrooms and egg in the kalguksu. The shop has ru…

Gyeran-mandu, egg dumpling, has no wrapper at all: soaked glass noodles are folded into egg batter and griddled until g…

Cooked at the table, the instant tteokbokki runs slightly hotter than Shin Ramyun, and cooked perilla leaves leave a st…

Rice cakes and donuts are sold in numbered-ticket order, and once the morning batch is gone you wait for the second sal…

Fritters are fried as you order, and the batter turns out soft rather than crunchy. Gimmari here is an entire gimbap ro…

Golmok's soup tteokbokki arrives in a ramen-sized bowl: soft wheat rice cakes and fish cake sitting in a sweet, fairly…

Rice cakes and fish cake simmer in a sweet-spicy red sauce at this little snack shop in Gimpo's older Bukbyeon-dong are…

Chicken feet simmer all day in the pot, so the sauce soaks deep and the meat slides off the bone with almost no effort.…

Soft wheat rice cakes arrive under a heap of raw shredded scallions, which add a sharp bite to the sweet-spicy sauce. T…

Straight from the pan, the rice cakes are so soft they almost sag; let them cool on the plate for a few minutes and the…

The thin, pale-looking sauce soaks right into the wheat rice cakes, making a mild, gently sweet tteokbokki in the style…

Since 1989 this snack shop across from Sungkyunkwan University has sold ssaltteokbokki, rice cakes in a sweet chili sau…

Sweet first and spicy on the finish, the sauce for the cook-at-the-table tteokbokki blends black bean paste with gochuj…

Thick pork cutlet gets an old-fashioned tomato-and-lemon sauce poured over it and shares the plate with rice, shredded…

Thick garaetteok, long cylinder rice cakes, absorb a sweet-spicy gochujang sauce all the way through and stay chewy in…