Category Archives: Rice Cake

家常便饭 – 炒年糕 (Shanghai Rice Cake Stir-Fry)

It’s the week before Chinese New Year! Can’t wait for the long break to come. This year is great because CNY eve is on a work weekday, so there’s an additional half a day off as well. I say, we … Read more

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潮州軟糕 (Teochew Soft Cake)

This is a childhood snack of mine – the Teochew soft cake, or what one would call ‘neng go’ (soft cake) in Teochew. These ‘cakes’ can be commonly found in local bakeries and traditional Teochew pastry shops, available throughout the … Read more

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麻糍 (Muah Chee)

A new year is coming again. In three days’ time.

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Very Chewy Korean Stir-Fried Tteokbokki (궁중 똑붂이)

I wanted to try out a Korean rice cake recipe that is stir-fried with slices of the main ingredient – a change from cooking rice cakes in their long cylindrical forms such as those in my previous Korean Spicy Rice … Read more

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Korean Spicy Rice Cake (떡볶이)

Pronounced as tteokbokki, this dish is supposed to be one of the favourite dishes of the Koreans, especially as a street snack on a hungry after-work day. I remember first eating this food for lunch at a ski resort in … Read more

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