Ddeok gook (Rice cake soup)
serves 2 

  1/2 cup ddeok gook ddeok (thin sliced rice cake)*

  1/4 cup myeol chi (dried anchovy)

  6 cups water

  2 green onions, chopped

  4 oz beef, thin julienne

  1 egg, mixed

  2 sheets seasoned kim (dried seaweed), crushed

  1/4 tsp soy sauce

  1/4 tsp sesame oil

  1/8 tsp sugar

  1/8 tsp pepper

  1/8 tsp minced garlic

  1/4 tsp salt

Put ddeok gook ddeok (thin sliced rice cake) in a cold water for 30 minutes.

Marinate beef in a soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper, sugar and minced garlic.
Saute beef. Set aside.

In a pot, add cold water and myeol chi (dried anchovy), bring to a boil, reduce to simmer for 5 minute. Take out myeol chi (dried anchovy).

Add ddeok gook ddeok (thin sliced rice cake), bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium.
Cook for 10- 15 minutes until tender. Add green onions.

Pour the egg in a little at a time. Let the egg set, then stir.
(If you stir right after egg in, the broth gets milky.)
Garnish with sauteed beef and some kim.

mush01c.gif  cool tip !
Ddeok gook is the traditional New year's day food.
Ddeok gook ddeok is cut from ga rae ddeok, which is very long tube shape rice cake.
And it symbolizes the longevity.

* In Gaesung (in North Korea), they made small snowman shape ddeok for ddeok    gook. It is called as "jo laeng ee ddeok" and made "jo laeng ee ddeok gook" out of it.
   The shape was came from the silkworm because it was the symbol of good luck.