Tteokbokki a.k.a stick-shaped Korean rice cake in spicy sauce, often sold as street-food is pretty darn great. Especially have fond memories of a portion consumed after a long day of insane "tourism" in Seoul from a tiny run down stall in great company. But the absolute cherry on the top, in that particular case, was the addition of cheese inside the rice sticks - just wow.
So naturally, when our local shop started selling cheese tteokbokki (spelt in some wonderfully nonsensical Japanese way I can't even remember at the moment), I happily paid the (way too high) price to try it out.
Long story short - thing turned out not to have cheese in the cakes but "cheese" in the sauce and smelled, and I am not going to bother editing or trying to be polite here, like sweat from an asscrack.
What is most absurd, though, is that the thing tasted pretty nice. Well, after I had added salt, pepper, white wine, mushrooms, butter, meat (that already had some sort of seasoning made of whoknowswhat), gochujang, actual cheese and lemon juice, that is...
Never again!
Cheers,
Hedi
