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Alternative names | Rice cake soup |
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Type | Soup |
Place of origin | Korea |
Main ingredients | Rice Cake |
120 kcal (502 kJ)[1] | |
Other information | related to Korean New Year |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 떡국 |
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Revised Romanization | tteokguk |
McCune–Reischauer | ttŏkkuk |
IPA | [t͈ʌk̚.k͈uk̚] |
Tteokguk[2] (Korean: 떡국) or sliced rice cake soup[2] is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of the broth/soup (guk) with thinly sliced rice cakes (tteok). Eating tteokguk on New Year's Day is traditionally believed to grant good luck for the year and confer one sal (a year of age). It is usually garnished with thin julienned cooked eggs, marinated meat, gim (김),[3] and sesame oil (참기름).