Garae-tteok

{{Short description|Long Korean rice cakes}}

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| serving_size = 100 g

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| hangul = 가래떡

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Garae-tteok ({{Korean|hangul=가래떡}}) is a long, cylindrical tteok (rice cake) made with non-glutinous rice flour.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000824446|title=garae-tteok|website=Doopedia|publisher=Doosan Corporation|language=ko|script-title=ko:가래떡|access-date=6 May 2017|archive-date=8 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008153654/https://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000824446|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/dining/the-best-brownies-recipe-and-other-matters.html|title=The Best Brownies Recipe and Other Matters|last=Sifton|first=Sam|date=8 June 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=6 May 2017|archive-date=8 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008100442/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/dining/the-best-brownies-recipe-and-other-matters.html|url-status=live}} Grilled garae-tteok is sometimes sold as street food.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XCjAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA319|title=Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2013|isbn=978-1-59884-954-7|editor-last=Kraig|editor-first=Bruce|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=319|editor-last2=Sen|editor-first2=Colleen Taylor|access-date=2020-10-02|archive-date=2024-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904031445/https://books.google.com/books?id=9XCjAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA319|url-status=live}} Thinly (and usually diagonally) sliced garae-tteok is used for making tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish eaten during the celebration of the Korean New Year.{{Cite news|url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/01/28/2014012804221.html|script-title=ko:떡국떡, 넌 언제부터 삐딱했니|last=김|first=성윤|date=29 January 2014|work=The Chosun Ilbo|access-date=6 May 2017|language=ko|archive-date=31 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131113149/http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/01/28/2014012804221.html|url-status=live}} The world record of the longest garaetteok was achieved in Dangjin, South Korea in 2018, with {{convert|5,080|m}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/546912-longest-bar-rice-cake-garae-tteok|title=Longest bar rice cake (Garae-tteok)|publisher=Guinness World Records|accessdate=2021-09-21|archive-date=2022-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627113057/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/546912-longest-bar-rice-cake-garae-tteok|url-status=live}}