Tteok and Kitchen Utensil Museum

( Jangdokdae, 장독대- A balcony where Koreans utilized to keep marinaded or fermented food like gochujang or soy sauce/ The pots are called hangari, 항아리)

After appreciating my rice cakes and tea at Jilsiru, we chose to go to the Tteok and Kitchen Utensil Museum (떡 박물관) that lies in the exact same structure (Tteok implies “rice cake”).

After paying the entryway charge (6,000 won (United States $ 6.30) for 2, which I believed was a little bit pricey), we increased to the 2nd flooring where the Tteok museum was. It had not been really crowded. There were a number of households and some youngsters doing their winter months holiday research. After that I saw a “Do not take photos” indicator. * huge dissatisfied sigh *

The event space was a great deal smaller sized than I anticipated. There were some collections of screen rice cakes and standard equipment/tools that are utilized for making Oriental rice cakes. I have actually seen the majority of those as I matured in message publications or television or perhaps in my residence.

( Tteoksal, 떡살– Rice cake mould)

After remaining in that flooring concerning 5 mins with a little dissatisfaction (there had not been much to see in my point of view), we increased to the 3rd flooring where the standard kitchen utensil museum was. The really initial screen I saw was this.

( 5 meal table, 5 cheop bansang/ 5첩 반상: Rice, soup, stew, soy sauce and 5 opposite side meals, Kimchi does not count as a side meal) Do you assume it is a great deal of side meals? Yet the King and honorable individuals had 12 side meal meals!

Remarkably there was no indicator stating “Do not take photos”, so I happily ordered the possibility.

( Rice cake making devices such as gauging mugs and rice flour mill and rice cake design screen)

If you have not seen any one of those prior to in your life, you could locate them fascinating.

• Address: 164-2, Waryong-dong, Jongno-Gu, Seoul
• Open Up: Monday- Sunday 10:00 ~ 18:00
• Website traffic details– (Train) line 1, 3, 5 Jongno 3 ga terminal, Leave entrance no. 7, 5 minutes by stroll
• Entry charge: 3,000 won for a specific grownup, 2,000 won for a pupil (grown-up charge puts on uni pupils)/ 2,000 won each for grownups in a team, 1,000 won each for pupils in a team (team implies greater than 20 individuals)

Update (April 21, 2016): If you have an interest in taking part in making some Oriental rice cakes, Kimchi or various other Oriental standard food, you ought to look into their experience program. I check out great testimonials concerning it.