Rice cakes

There are two different kinds of rice cakes. The dumpling-like kind that comes in little cylinder-tubes and sometimes other assorted shapes, which is served in spicy sauces and such as part of a meal, and then there are the sweet little pastries called rice cakes. They are everywhere. I probably pass 4 or 5 people selling them on my way to work. One place appears to be a dry cleaner or something I think, but in the middle of the afternoon when the kids are all running around they put out a table of little round rice cakes all decorated different colors and packaged in cellophane.

So somebody brought a package of rice cakes to work yesterday, I'm not sure who supplied them. I thought I might as well try them.



The box held an assortment of different colors. I don't know if the different colors signified different fillings, since I only ate one. (Didn't want to look like the fat greedy American right?) As you can see they were pretty popular, about half gone by the time I got to them.



I chose a plain white one, and found it was filled with red bean paste. (Which sounds kind of gross doesn't it? But cocoa is a bean too, remember? Coffee and chocolate -- not so gross!) It was actually pretty good. Not super sugary and sweet. The red bean paste filling kind of reminded me of chocolate a bit. The outside was very chewy in a soft way. I don't know exactly how to describe the texture. The inside was very soft and kind of melted in your mouth. Overall, would eat it again and probably will.

Up next: I ordered a wacky Korean pizza for dinner. More details later! There will be pictures promise!