Tteok

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Tteok
Hangul:	떡
Revised Romanization:	Tteok
McCune-Reischauer:	Ttŏk

Tteok (떡) is a Korean sweet made with glutinous rice, also known as sweet rice flour or chapssal. Sometimes the flour is made from regular rice to be included in savory dishes, like in spicy tteokbokee and in soups. There are hundreds of different kinds of dduk eaten year round, but in Korean culture it is customary to eat tteok soup (떡국) on New Year's and sweet tteok on weddings and birthdays. It is often considered a celebratory food and can be rather elaborate with nuts and fruits compared to the plain-flovered tteok used in home cooking. Some common ingredients are mung bean, red bean and sweet red bean paste, Korean mugwort, dates and other dried fruits, sesame seeds and oil, sugar, and pine nuts. Tteok originally came from Chinese rice cake, which are similar to tteok.