๋ก๊ตญ ยท Tteokguk โ round rice cakes, bone broth, one bowl that makes you a year older.
์ค๋ ์์นจ. ์ฐจ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง๋ด๊ธฐ ์ , ํ๋ณต์ ์ ๊ธฐ ์ ์, ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ ์ผ ๋จผ์ ํ๋ ์ผ์ด ์๋ค. ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ๊ตญ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ ์์ ์๋ ๊ฒ. ๋ช ์ ์ด๋๊น, ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ๋ชจ์์ผ๋๊น โ ๋ญ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ถ๋ค.
๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ค ์ด ๊ตญ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด๋ฆ์ด ์์๋ค. ์ฒจ์ธ๋ณ(ๆทปๆญฒ้ค ) โ ๊ธ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก "๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ ๋ก". ์กฐ์ ์๋์๋ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ "๋ณํ ๋ช ์ฌ๋ฐ ๋จน์๋๋"๊ณ ํ๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ด ๊ตญ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ์ ๋จน์ด์ผ ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ ์ด์ด ๋์๋ค. ์ผ์ดํฌ๋, ์ด๋, ์์ผ ๋ ธ๋๋ ์๋๋ผ, ์ ๋ก์ด ๋๋ ๋จ๋ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ.
์ง๊ธ๋ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง ๊ฑด ์๋ค. ์ค๋ ์์นจ, ์๋ง๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ ์ฌ๊ณจ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ํฐ ๋ก์ ์ฐ๊ณ , ๊ตญ์ด ๋์ด์ค๋ฅผ ๋ โ ๊ทธ ๋์๊ฐ ๋์์ค๋ฉด ์ง์ง ์ํด๊ฐ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ธ์๊ฒ ๋ก๊ตญ์ ํ ํด์ ์ฒซ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ด๋ค.
Seollal (New Year) morning. Before the ancestral rites, before the bowing, before anyone says a proper greeting โ there's soup on the table. You might assume it's just a traditional meal, something ceremonial and mostly symbolic.
Here's what you didn't know: this soup has another name. Cheomsebyeong (ๆทปๆญฒ้ค ) โ literally, "the rice cake that adds a year." In Joseon-era Korea, asking someone's age meant asking how many bowls of this soup they'd eaten. Not candles on a cake. Not a birthday. A bowl of soup was how you officially became a year older.
That hasn't really changed. On Seollal (New Year) morning, Mom wakes up early to simmer the broth, slice the rice cakes, watch the pot. The smell of it fills the house before anyone's properly awake. For Koreans, that first bowl of the year isn't a side dish โ it's the official start of a new chapter.
The bowl arrives before the bows. Before the greetings. The moment you finish it, you're officially a year older โ no candles, no cake, no question. Just soup.
๊ธฐ๋ณธ ยท Classic
๋ก๋ง๋๊ตญ ยท With Dumplings
์กฐ๋ญ์ด ยท Gaeseong Style
๊ธฐ๋ณธ ยท ๋ก๋ง๋๊ตญ ยท ์กฐ๋ญ์ด โ same tradition, three different bowls
Three generations, one Michelin Bib. The signature bowl uses joraengi-tteok โ silkworm cocoon-shaped rice cakes from the Gaeseong tradition. Not what you expected. Better than expected.
Tucked behind Gyeongbokgung, away from tourist trails. Handmade dumplings, proper tteok-manduguk, mostly Korean regulars. Come for the food, stay for the neighbourhood.
No menu, cash only, served by ajeommas who've been doing this for decades. The bowl costs almost nothing. The experience costs nothing to forget.
| ์ฌ๋ฃ | ๋ถ๋ | English / Notes |
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| ๊ฐ๋๋ก (์ฌ ๊ฒ) | 300g | Sliced rice cake โ frozen section at any Asian grocery |
| ์์ง or ์ฌํ | 150g | Beef brisket or shank |
| ๋ฌผ | 1.2L | 5 cups water |
| ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ฅ | 2T | Soup soy sauce โ sub: light soy sauce |
| ๋ค์ง ๋ง๋ | 1T | 1 tbsp minced garlic |
| ๋ฌ๊ฑ | 1๊ฐ | 1 egg |
| ๋ํ | 1/2๋ | ยฝ stalk green onion |
| ์๊ธ, ํ์ถ | ์ ๋นํ | Salt & pepper to taste |
| ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ, ๊ตฌ์ด ๊น | ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์ฉ | Sesame oil & toasted seaweed (to finish) |
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์์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์ 20๋ถ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ๋ฌผ ๋บ๋ค. ๋ฌผ 1.2L์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๋์ด๋ฉด์ ๊ฑฐํ ๊ฑท์ด๋ธ๋ค.Soak the beef in cold water for 20 min to draw out the blood. Bring to a boil in 5 cups of water, skimming off the foam.
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์ค๋ถ๋ก ์ค์ด๊ณ ๋ง๋ ๋ฃ์ด 20๋ถ ๋ ๋์ธ๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฑด์ ธ์ ๊ฒฐ๋๋ก ์ฐข์ด ๋๋ค.Reduce to medium heat, add garlic, simmer 20 min. Remove the beef and tear it into strips along the grain.
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๊ฐ๋๋ก์ด ์ผ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์ 10๋ถ ๋ด๊ฐ ํด๋. ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ค๋ถ 8๋ถ.If the rice cakes are frozen, soak in cold water for 10 min first. Add to the broth and cook on medium for 8 min.
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๊ตญ๊ฐ์ฅ, ์๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ ๋ง์ถ๊ณ , ๋ฌ๊ฑ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด ๋๋ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ถ์ด์ค๋ค. ๊ณ๋์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ต์ผ๋ฉด ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๋๋ค.Season with soup soy sauce and salt. Beat the egg in a bowl, then pour slowly into the simmering broth โ it should form ribbons. Once the egg is lightly set, add the green onion.
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๊ทธ๋ฆ์ ๋ด๊ณ ์ฐข์ด๋ ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆยทํ์ถยท๊น์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ.Ladle into bowls. Top with the shredded beef, a drizzle of sesame oil, black pepper, and crumbled toasted seaweed.
๋ก์ ๋๋ฌด ์ผ์ฐ ๋ฃ์ผ๋ฉด ํผ์ง๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ๋ค ๋ง์ถ๊ณ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๋ฃ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฒ.
Add the rice cakes last โ after seasoning is done. They turn mushy fast, and mushy tteokguk is not the vibe.
๊ฐํธ ๋ก๊ตญ ๋ ์ํผ ์์ ยท Quick & Easy Tteokguk โ store-bought bone broth + pre-sliced rice cakes
| ์ฌ๋ฃ (1์ธ๋ถ) | ๋ถ๋ | English / Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ๊ฐ๋๋ก (์ฌ๋ผ์ด์ค, ๋์ฅ/๋๋) | 150g | Pre-sliced tteok โ refrigerated or frozen section |
| ์ํ ์ฌ๊ณจ๊ณฐํ (ํฉ) | 500ml | Store-bought sagol gomtang bone broth โ 1 pack |
| ๋ฌผ | 200ml | ยฝ cup water (to add to the broth pack) |
| ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ฅ | 1T | 1 tbsp soup soy sauce |
| ๋ฌ๊ฑ | 1๊ฐ | 1 egg (pre-beaten in a bowl) |
| ๋ํ, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ, ๊น | ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์ฉ | Green onion, sesame oil, toasted seaweed |
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์ฌ๊ณจ๊ณฐํ ํฉ์ ๋๋น์ ๋ถ๊ณ ๋ฌผ 200ml ์ถ๊ฐ. ์ธ๋์ (๋๋ ๊ฐ์ค๋ ์ธ์ง) ์ค๋ถ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฐ๋ค.Pour the store-bought bone broth into a pot. Add ยฝ cup water. Heat on medium on induction or gas.
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๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋๋ก ๋ฃ๊ณ 5๋ถ. ๋๋์ด๋ฉด ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์ 5๋ถ ํด๋ ํ ํฌ์ . ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ค.Once it boils, add the sliced rice cakes. Cook 5 min. (If frozen, thaw in cold water first.) Season with soup soy sauce.
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๋ฌ๊ฑ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ์ด๋๊ณ , ๋๋ ๋๋น์ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ถ๋๋ค. ๊ณ๋์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ต์ผ๋ฉด ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ํ์๋ ๋ ๋์ธ๋ค.Beat the egg in a bowl first, then pour slowly into the simmering broth. Once the egg is lightly set, add green onion and bring to a brief boil.
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๊ทธ๋ฆ์ ๋ด๊ณ ๋ถ์ด๋์ ๊น์ ์น๊ณ , ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ์ ์ด์ง ๋๋ฅธ๋ค.Ladle into a bowl. Top with crumbled toasted seaweed and a drizzle of sesame oil.
ํด์ธ: H Mart ๋๋ ํ์ธ ๋งํธ ๋์ฅยท๋๋ ์ฝ๋ โ "rice cake soup slices"๋ก ๊ฒ์, sagol gomtang ํฉ์ Korean broth section
Rice cake soup (Tteokguk) โ Maangchi ยท ํ/์ ์๋ง ํฌํจ ยท Traditional method
Next up โ Winter Solstice Red Bean Porridge. The bowl Koreans made to keep evil spirits out.
One bowl makes you a year older. That's why no Korean leaves the broth unfinished on New Year's morning.