How to pronounce Bing-tteok

Bing-tteok is written 빙떡 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /piŋ.t͈ʌk̚/. In plain English letters that is BING-duck, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Bing-tteok?

Bing-tteok is a snack of South Korea. Where it comes from: Jeju. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are vegetables and pork. It tastes savory.

Where Bing-tteok comes from

Bing-tteok is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map. See all dishes from Jeju.

• Gogi-guksu 고기국수 · Noodles & pasta · Jeju

  Gogi-guksu means "meat noodles": wheat noodles in a broth of pork and pork bones seasoned only with salt, topped with slices of boiled pork and chives.

• Omegi-tteok 오메기떡 · Dessert · Jeju

  Omegi-tteok is a rice cake found only on Jeju Island.

• Momguk 몸국 · Soup & stew · Jeju

  Momguk is a Jeju soup of pork broth cooked with mojaban, a brown seaweed called mom in the Jeju language.

• Jeonbok-juk 전복죽 · Rice dish · Jeju

  Jeonbok-juk is abalone porridge: rice cooked slowly with abalone and often its innards, called gewu in the Jeju language, which turn the porridge pale green and rich.

• Kimchi 김치 · Snack · Korean peninsula

  Koreans have salted vegetables for winter for well over a thousand years, but the red kimchi most people picture is younger: chilli peppers only reached Korea from the Americas around the 16th or 17th century.

• Bibimbap 비빔밥 · Rice dish · Jeonju

  Bibimbap simply means "mixed rice": a bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, often beef and an egg, all stirred together with chilli paste just before eating.

Food of South Korea

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