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Tteokbokki is Korean for "Stir Fried Rice Cake" . Tteokbokki is one of Korea's popular street foods made of long Tteok (rice cakes) stir-fried with assorted vegetables, like carrots, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and cucumbers and stewed in a Gochujang-based sauce.
Moreover, Tteokbokki is a popular Korean snack food and one of Korea's rice dishes which is commonly purchased from street vendors. Originally it was called Tteok Jjim, and was a broiled dish of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. Tteok Jjim an early variant of modern Tteobokki, was once a part of Korean royal court cuisine. This type of Tteokbokki was made by broiling Tteok, meat, vegetables, eggs, and sesasonings in water, and then serving it topped with gingko nuts and walnuts. In its orginal form, Tteokbokki, which was then known as Gungjung Tteokbokki, was a dish served in the royal court and regarded as a representative example of haute cuisine. The original Tteokbokki was a stir-fry dish consisting of Huintteok combined with a variety of ingredients, such as beef, bagogari, mung-bean sprouts, parsley, Shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and onions, and seasoned with soy sauce.
Tteokjjim (Braised Garaetteok Stuffs). Tteokjjim is a Korean braised dish of made of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. Tteokjjim, an early variant of modern Topokki, was once a part of Korean royal court cuisine.
Other ingredients that is used to make Tteokjjim are Garaetteok, beef shank, beef top rounds, carrot, brown oak mushrooms.
Garaetteok refers to "rod-shaped rice cake"
Teriyaki refers to a Japanese way of cooking. The term teriyaki is a combination of two Japanese words "teri" which means luster and "yaki" which means grill or boil. To make a teriyaki dish, ingredients are broiled, roasted, or grilled after being marinated in or basted by teriyaki sauce. It's the teriyaki sauce that brings the shiny look (teri) to the ingredients.
Twigim is the Korean generic term for "fritters "made from vegetables, sweet potatoes, shrimp, squid, and dumplings (mandu ) which are coated with batter and fried. Twigim can be eaten in bite-size pieces and dipped in a soy sauce dressing or splashed with Tteokbokki sauce.
Twigim is is one of the popular street snacks/foods in Korea
Tonkatsu refers to the Japanese fried breaded pork cutlet. Tonkatsu is often served on a bed of rice. It is also served with Tonkatsu sauce.
Tonkatsu sauce is made from vegatables, spices, and fruit. It is named Tonkatsu sauce because it goes so well with the pork cutlet (Tonkatsu). Tonkatsu sauce has a sweet and strong flavor which goes well with any fried food.