♥ korean rice cakes A$2.40
I bought this the other day in Chatswood's Lemon Grove foodcourt. The slimy green colour with bright yellow-coloured mung-bean paste might not seem to be one of the tasty colour combination.
The rice cakes has a weird interaction between the sweet and the savoury. The rice cakes are actually rather tasteless on its own. It's not sweet but there is a certain amount of saltiness in it. The mung-bean paste on the other hand, is very sweet.
The verdict? I like it. It's very chewy. I didnt like it on first bite mainly because of the salty flavour in the greenish rice-cakes. I was expecting a sweet rice cake. Apparently most korean rice cakes can be rather tasteless with a slight hint of saltiness.
Just dont expect too much flavour from this rice cakes. Many non-koreans find the rice cakes bland. I remembered a friend on his first encouter with korean rice cakes screamed "darn, this is tasteless" and thereafter spitted out what he had eaten. A little rude but that tells you if you like heavily flavoured food, this is just not for you.:-)
Looks pretty though.. :)
ReplyDeletehi pinkcocoa, lovely site you've got here! :)
ReplyDeletei've tasted a few other kinds of home-made korean rice cakes. you're right, the dough is usually plain and very, very chewy (tough workout for the gums!). It's quite thick, thicker than japanese mochi rice cakes. Maybe that's why your friend found them tasteless. I quite enjoy korean rice cakes. just wished that the dough could be thinner. :)
julia
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Hi
ReplyDeleteIs this the yomogi-mochi you were talking about?
hi hi pinkcocoa, yum!!I saw a similar type- green and yellow green bean paste dessert from Vietnamese-Asian grocery shops. Wondering if the master taught both Korean and Vietnamese disciples in the past? How come they look similar :) But, the ones I tasted is sweeter and slightly oily. Have you seen this somewhere else? fm jess cum 'the other english lady'
ReplyDeletehi Mrs Tweety
ReplyDeleteThey look so colourful and attractive, arent they? That's one of the reason i ended up buying this one among all the other different korean rice cakes ;-)
hi Julia
Greetings and welcome to my blog! oh and thanks for the compliment too. ^_^
I actually quite like korean rice cakes too. I find the blandness very more-ish. I dont mind the chewy bit too. In fact, the chewier the better for me. The rice cakes that my friend disposed of disgracefully, I think I had about 3 large pieces! ;-)
konnichiwa obachan
nope, this isnt though it looks like it can be made from yomogi, isnt it?
btw, the yomogi daifuku pic is up!
hi hi the other english lady
finally see you here!
I havent seen similar stuff at any other place but it does remind me of Taiwanese 'chao ah kueh'. :p
hmm. I might go look out for the similar green and yellow green bean paste dessert next time I go chinatown. Maybe there are all the same kind of desserts originated from the same source in China long long time ago. :)