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“Two glutinous barley pancakes wrapped around red bean paste. A texture like soft, yielding sponge cake.”
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Chalbori-ppang (Korean: 찰보리빵; lit. 'glutinous barley bread') is a South Korean confection, consisting of two small pancakes made with glutinous barley flour wrapped around a filling of red bean paste. The round, flat, mildly sweet confection has a texture similar to that of a glutinous sponge cake. Chalbori-ppang, first made and sold in 2003 at a bakery named Danseokga in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, is now a local specialty. It utilizes the glutinous barley harvested in fields under Danseoksan (Mt. Danseok), which is pesticide-free as barley grows in cold winter months during which pests and weeds cannot flourish.
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Chalbori-ppang is a modest, gently sweet confection from Gyeongju that lets glutinous barley flour speak for itself. Two small pancakes cradle red bean paste with the soft, yielding texture of glutinous sponge cake. Born in 2003 at Danseokga bakery, it's become a local anchor—built on barley grown pesticide-free in cold mountain winters where bugs simply cannot survive.
Order it here when it has
- pesticide-free barley from mountain fields
- locally sourced since 2003
- delicate sponge-like crumb
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