Chapssaltteok is a glutinous rice cake — soft, yielding, with a slight resistance before it gives — filled with sweetened red bean paste and dusted on the outside with a fine powder that keeps it from sticking to everything it touches. The exterior is smooth and pale. The filling is dense and dark. The whole […]

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Baekseolgi is a steamed white rice cake — non-glutinous rice flour, sugar, a pinch of salt, nothing else — with a texture that sits closer to a dense cloud than to the chewy tteok most people encounter first. It crumbles gently rather than stretching. It dissolves on the tongue with a clean, mild sweetness and […]

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