I’d like to start by saying I’m super new to cooking and I know like nothing about Korean food. But I’ve recently become determined to find out what I like to eat and to learn how to cook it, and I love east asian foods, so I’m tryna learn that. As for why Korean food, despite having eaten almost no Korean food in my life, when I think of Korea, food is like the top thing I think of, and I always hear great things about Korean food, so I wanna try that.
Anyway here’s the story. Years ago (like over seven years ago) we (me and my family) visited a Korean family’s hosue, and they had made some kind of food with tteokguk. From what I remember, it was just tteokguk covered in some red-orange sauce. I don’t remember exactly how it tasted, except that it was very spicy, and normally if something is that spicy, I just don’t eat it cuz it’s not worth the pain. But this was so good that I couldn’t stop eating it despite the intense heat. The sauce had a consistency like a thinner honey, I think. There might have been specs of something black, maybe spices of some sort. But that’s such a small detail and it was so long ago that I could be remembering wrong.
Anyway, ever since then, I sometimes remember that awesome food and wish I knew what it was called so I can have the chance of eating it again. For all I know it could have been a family recipe, but when I think of that, I also remember that the mother said that this food is very popular in Korea. So I really don’t know.
If none of you know what this food is called, it’d also be cool if I could get some recipe suggestions for what to make with tteokguk. I looked online but all I could find was soup, and I don’t wanna make soup just yet. I wanna make like actual solid food. I recently made cheese buldak chicken with this video, and although I didn’t care for the dish itself, I loved the tteokguk and I really wanna find out what else I can make with it. Thank you very muuuuuuch!!!
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