Tteok Museum (Rice Cake Museum) — Attraction in Seoul

This is the place to learn about the traditions and history of rice cake in Korea! If you're staying in/near Insadong, it's also close by and you can look at everything in less than 30 minutes. Considering how this is a smaller museum, there's so much excellent information on how rice cakes were traditionally made, the tools and cookware that were used, and the Korean celebrations where different rice cakes and food were served. It looks like some people were expecting ricecake to be sold here but this isn't a huge museum. :) Hopefully, as they get more interest, they can expand to sell ricecake and also have a gift shop. But I felt that it was a wonderful museum. The only thing to note is that while the 2nd floor has everything in English, the 3rd floor exhibition doesn't have English translations yet. For now, if you can, use the Google Lens translate feature. Enter through the Institute of Traditional Korean Food and the entrance is on the 1st floor. The exhibition is on the 2nd and 3rd floors. I went on a Sat, early afternoon, and it wasn't crowded at all. Tickets are very affordable and no need for...

I love rice cake. So it was a good opportunity for me. You will get to know a lots of type of 떡, the costums around rice cake as wedding, and other events, rice cakes of different provinces etc. It's so interesting if you like 떡. Every food is made buy plastic but so lifelike! But the museum is quiet small. 1 hour is enough to read everything and look around. The entrance...

This is a privately run ttoek museum, the building also sell classes if you want to do extra activities. The museum runs on two levels and showcase various sort of tteok depending on seasons and life events. Give some good overview around this rice cake tradition. When i visited it didn’t sell...