tteokguk

Tteokguk () or sliced rice cake soup is a traditional Korean dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year. The dish consists of 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 (), and sesame oil ().

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Food.name: Tteokguk
Food.image: Tteokguk.jpg
Food.alternate_name: Rice cake soup
Food.place_of_origin: Korea
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Food.type: Soup
Food.main_ingredient: Rice cakes
Food.serving_size: 1
Food.calories: 120
Food.other: related to Korean New Year
Korean name/auto.child: yes
Korean name/auto.hangul: 떡국

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Revised Romanization: tteokguk
McCune–Reischauer romanization: ttŏkkuk
Commons category: Tteokguk

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== History == The origin of eating tteokguk on New Year's Day is unknown. However, tteokguk is mentioned in the 19th-century book of customs Dongguksesigi () as being made with beef or pheasant used as the main ingredient for the broth, and pepper added as seasoning. The book also mentions the custom of having a bowl of tteokguk in the morning of New Year's Day to get a year older, and the custom of saying "How many bowls of tteokguk have you eaten?" to ask a person's age.