Living in a southern hemisphere which is the furthest continent to reach from Korea, I constantly miss Korean food that I can't find here, especially the food from the street vendors. If you live in Korea or visiting Korea for business or vacation, please enjoy the great goodies for me that you can easily find any major shopping streets. Around this time you will find many sweet pancakes, roasted sweet potatoes and chess nuts, and different types of rice cakes and fish cake soups, etc... Just thinking of all the goodness makes me drool. Slurp....! "Holly! Pull yourself together!!!" So I bugged my husband to drive me to a Korean grocery store last weekend, which is about 1 hr away from where I live. I could drive, of course. But it is impossible to find the parking space in that neighborhood, so he has to drop me off in front of the store where I can quickly grab a few things I need while he drives around the area until I finish the shopping. The Korean stores are quite small and I can finish the shopping within 15 minutes. One great thing about Korean grocery stores in Buenos Aires is that you can often get freshly made tofu and rice cakes along with fresh produces. I love plain rice cakes. I often eat them plain, right out of package without any additional flavor. Chewy and satisfying! It is a carb lover's dream. But if I have to add something to make it even more delicious, here is one simple recipe that I would like to share. With this recipe, you can mimic one of the most famous Korean street foods. It's the rice cake skewers called Tteok kkochi (떡꼬치). If you can access the freshly made rice cakes, you are very lucky. If you can't find the fresh kind, but the frozen cakes are available, use them by all means. Now let's start how easily you can imitate the one of the delicious Korean street snacks in you own kitchen.

These are the main ingredients for the sauce. Ketchup, Korean chili paste, strawberry jam and/or sweet chili sauce. You can use either strawberry jam or sweet chili sauce, or if you happened to have both? Use them both.