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The Sporkful

Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

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4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today on Deep Dish, Sohla and Ham explore the history of Korea through the story of a rice cake. Tteokbokki (Korean rice cakes) are as popular in Korea as hot dogs are in the U.S. Ji Hye Kim, the chef and owner of Miss Kim in Ann Arbor, Michigan, fell in love with tteokbokki as a kid in South Korea.

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0:00.0

Gochijung is fermented soy and chili paste. We love it. It's another staple in our home.

0:07.0

It's almost like if Miso had a baby with moly.

0:10.0

It's like mezzo in its bad boy face.

0:13.0

It's like fiery, it's spicy, it's sassy.

0:16.0

Me so that's been hanging out with the wrong crowd.

0:19.0

Yeah. Welcome to Deep Dish, the show where we do deep dives on dishes we love and then we cook them.

0:33.8

I'm Sola and I'm Ham.

0:35.4

We're married and we're chefs.

0:37.2

We nerd out on food together all day long.

0:39.6

And we love learning

0:45.0

out on this podcast.

0:47.0

in each episode of Deep Dish, we'll deep dive into the story behind a food.

0:51.0

Then we'll head home to our kitchen

0:52.0

and see what we feel inspired to cook up.

0:55.9

Today's story, a brief history of Korea as told through a rice cake.

1:07.0

I like have this theory I feel like I've told you about this a lot but I feel like when you

1:15.0

immigrate to this country or you like our first generation you really are frozen in your culture at that time. Like my parents are frozen in Bangladesh in the 1970s.

1:21.0

And like that's when they moved.

1:23.6

That's what we, that's like the culture I was raised in.

1:26.8

That's the culture that my sister continues in like 1970s,

1:30.1

Bangladesh values.

1:32.3

When you leave a country, you feel like you have to hold on to those

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