On a chilly night when you crave a piping-hot bowl of brothy soup with alluring textures and rich, soulful flavors, tteokguk is your friend. Ann Taylor Pittman is a Senior Food Editor at Food & Wine.

Tteokguk with flower-shaped dumplings and jidan prepared by Yu Kyoung-suk (courtesy of Yu via The Korea Herald/Asia News Network) SEOUL — Yu Kyoung-suk found joy by making special tteokguk, or rice ...

Tteokguk (pronounced sort of like DUK-gook) is a soup of chewy-soft rice cakes cooked in steaming translucent broth typically served for the Lunar New Year. Ann Taylor Pittman is a Senior Food Editor ...

For Koreans, a birthday is exactly that: the day that you were born. And though they do a small celebration on this day, it is not the moment that they turn a year older. Instead, people in the ...

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Tteokguk is a soup made with disc-shaped rice cakes in clear, usually beef, broth. It's a traditional must-eat New Year's dish in Korea. On the first day of the Lunar calendar which is one of most ...

On the 7th, just before the Lunar New Year holiday, Kyungdong Market in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul was so crowded that one had to walk carefully to avoid bumping shoulders with others at every step.

“A year older, a year wiser,” some say when a bowl of tteokguk is enjoyed during the Lunar New Year. In Korea, this rich soup, in which chewy rice cakes steep in a complex, milky broth, is tradition ...

Tteokguk with flower-shaped dumplings and jidan prepared by Yu Kyoung-suk (courtesy of Yu) Tteokguk with flower-shaped dumplings and jidan prepared by Yu Kyoung-suk (courtesy of Yu via The Korea ...

Tteokguk is a soup made with disc-shaped rice cakes in clear, usually beef, broth. It's a traditional must-eat New Year's dish in Korea. On the first day of the Lunar calendar which is one of most ...