a popular Korean street-food dish of chewy rice cakes stir-fried in a spicy gochujang-based sauce, often served with fish cakes, vegetables, or eggs
We bought a steaming bowl of tteokbokki from a street stall in Seoul.
Melanie tried tteokbokki for the first time and loved its spicy kick.
✦ Borrowed into English from Korean 떡볶이 (tteok-bokki), a compound of 떡 (tteok, “rice cake”) and 볶이 (bokki, “stir-frying”).
