Food
What Is Korean Butter Tteok? Not the Tteok You Know
Butter tteok is a baked glutinous-rice cake with a shatter-crisp shell and a chewy middle — where it really came from, and when it's truly gluten-free.
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Korean Café & Dessert Culture
The Korean dessert you meet in a Seoul café is usually newer than it looks, and sometimes not Korean at all. Butter tteok is the clean case — a canelé rebuilt with glutinous rice flour in Nantong, China, renamed on its way into Korean bakeries, and now copied back out of Seoul. The cafés serving it turn over just as fast, which is why cafe hopping in Seongsu collects rooms rather than roasts.
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