How tteok is different from cakes

There are some basic differences here. Firstly, tteok is made by steaming, while western cakes are baked, and secondly, tteok is made of rice or ground rice, while cakes are made of wheat flour. And finally, and probably most importantly, tteok is eaten as both meals and desserts. A bowl of tteokguk

Can You Tell the Difference Between Rice Cake Soup, Dumpling Soup, and Rice Cake and Dumpling Soup?

Korean rice cake soup, tteokguk, is made by boiling rice cake slices in the soup. Rice cake is the single major ingredient. Korean dumpling soup, manduguk, is made by boiling dumplings in the soup. Dumplings are the only major ingredient. Now, you can guess how to make tteok-mandu-guk, the rice cake