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“Skewered rice cakes and Vienna sausages, fried and brushed with mustard and gochujang—a highway rest stop dish that became a national obsession.”

So-tteok-so-tteok

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So-tteok so-tteok (Korean: 소떡소떡), sometimes translated as sausage and rice cakes, is a popular South Korean street food consisting of skewered and fried garae-tteok (rice cakes) and Vienna sausages brushed with several sauces including mustard and spicy gochujang-based sauce. It is a portmanteau as well as a reduplication of sausage (소시지) and tteok (떡). Initially, it was only available on a highway rest stop in Anseong. In March 2018, comedian Lee Young-ja introduced the dish in a television broadcast. The broadcast caused the dish to explode in popularity. By the end of that year, of all rest stops in Korea, Anseong ranked third in total sales. Since then, rest stops across the country began offering the same snack, with restaurants and convenience stores following suit. Vendors created modifications of the dish, for example by adding cheese or even dalgona. The South Korean government and companies began promoting the dish abroad. So-tteok-so-tteok was one of the dishes representing

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So-tteok-so-tteok arrives on a skewer: garae-tteok rice cakes and Vienna sausages fried until their edges catch, then brushed with mustard and spicy gochujang sauce. Born at a highway rest stop in Anseong, this portmanteau snack became a national phenomenon after a 2018 television appearance, spreading from rest stops to restaurants and convenience stores across South Korea. The dish has since traveled internationally, representing Korea at festivals in the Philippines and Malaysia, with vendors continuously riffing on the formula—adding cheese, dalgona, whatever comes next.

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  • popular South Korean export
  • internationally recognized
  • versatile format for modifications

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