I got shocked as soon as I stared at my face in front of the bathroom mirror in the morning. There were lots of traces of the battle between my skin and hormones, and it seemed like the hormones won in the battle called “Sugar high”. I had lots of pimples here and there, because I had consumed too much sugar yesterday. My sister said my face looks like it was bitten by swarms of mosquitoes all night. 
Yes, when you having some sweets, you really enjoy the moment. You feel good, become active, cheerful, then a bit violent, cranky, moody, then peace comes finally, and the next day, the glory of pimples.
Rabokki (stir fried rice cake and noodle) is what I had for lunch yesterday. Rabokki is combining words for ddeokbokki and ramyun (instant noodles). It is quite simple to make if you know how to make ddeokbbokki. All you need to do is, add some instant noodles and extra water into ddeokbbokki. Voila~!
I simply used the same ingredients from my ddeokbokki recipe, just increase the amount of them for 4 people.
Ingredients for 4 people
(Expected preparation time - 5 minutes, cooking time - 7 minutes)
-For main ingredients
- 1 instant noodle pack.
- Fresh rice cakes 300g (about 30 pieces) - If you use pre packaged rice cakes, soak them in cold water for 20 minutes before you use them.
- Fish cake 4 sheets - 240g
- 1 onion
- 4 leaves of cabbage
- 1 stalk of spring onion (optional)
- 8 instant dumplings (optional)
- 1½ cups of water
-For sauce (Mix them well in a bowl.)
- Gochujang - 4 tbsp
- Dark brown sugar - 4 tbsp ; If you don’t want to be attacked by sugar high pimples, I recommend you to reduce the amount of sugar.
maybe reduce it down to 2 to 3 tbsp - Minced garlic -1 tsp
- Chili powder (Gochutgaru in Korean) - 1 tsp
Preparation
- Thin slice the onion and diagonally slice the spring onion.
- Rinse the fish cakes in hot water. (To clean the oil coating from its surface)
- Cut the fish cakes and cabbage into medium size pieces.
Cooking (I cooked them on a portable burner, it is the restaurant style of eating)
- Pour the water into the pot. Start to boil it.
- Add the sauce and stir it well.
- Add all the other ingredients. (reduce the heat to medium to low)
- Stir them well.
- You can start eating them when one of the ingredients is cooked.
Although, it was over sweet, it was really delicious. All of us who ate this meal got high later, but it was worth it for short moment. 
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That must be why I have some pimples too…sigh.
I’m new to such rice cakes. Good info. for me. I think I will like this noodles dish a lot because it’s spicy. Is it spice-low, medium or high ? :O
ooh, I love rice cakes! But there’s only pre-packaged frozen ones available at where I live. I’m sure the fresh ones taste much better?!
Kat, I always thought only teenagers have pimples, but I continually have pimples after giving myself some sweet treats.
tigerfish, I think due to the sweetness, it wasn’t that spicy. I say low to medium? But don’t listen to my opinion about spiciness. Koreans love spicy food.
Christina, I sometimes use prepackaged ones when I couldn’t get fresh rice cakes, they are OK but fresh rice cakes are always the best.
I just try to cooking Rabokki with the recipe it was simply awesome! Thanks for the great recipe..
I simply like the dish, i tasted it a few times in the Korean Restaurant and always had a craving for this dish..
I cook it with the frozen rice cakes, but i think it turned out really well!It was amazing, all my friends love the rabokki..
loved this recipe! I was 2 tbsp of the “gold” teh yang gochujang and 2 tbsp of the “meh oon(spicy)” teh yang gochujang. i didn’t have any noodles on hand, so i didn’t add them. recipe was great though! just the right amount of sweetness and spice!
here are two pictures of the dish i made! will be making again soon!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/460463060_7113c02731.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/235/460463052_59e5fb6ac8.jpg?v=0
my lovely roommates enjoying the meal! we also had curry and rice. . a BIG feast it was!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/240/460463062_25fd3e1ee6.jpg?v=0
thanks again!
genabobeana,
That looks really appetizing! Great to hear that you guys loved it so much.
Merci for your recipe! I’ll try to impress my gf next time
By the way, what Korean word do you mean by “fish cake”?
All the best from Germany!
Hinrich,
I meant eomuk(어묵) or odeng (오뎅).
Dear sue,
Thank you for this recipe - I will be sure to try it next week, after I go back to the Korean store, kukje. I actually bought it ready made and it was so delicious, so I will try to make it myself next week.
I’ve been craving to try this since I saw it and finally today I went to the store and found rice cake! I made this dish for the first time and it was delicious! Great recipe! My roommate came sniffing around and he only does that when he smells something he really thinks smells good - he then had a huge serving! Proof this is a great dish : D
Hello, I am Jeong-Ah Lee and Korean.
Glad to hear all of you have enjoyed Rabbokki though you people are not getting used to eating spicy food.
Depends on sauce, you can have Rabbokki with lesser spicy, salty or sweet..It’s up to individuals..Sometimes, I feel that Rabbokki being sold at street is too sweet and salty, but not spicy ^^. Those are not good for health.
You can put several boiled eggs-of course after shell off-when you cook Rabbokki. You feel getting better to have the boiled egg yolk instead of drinking water when you feel really hot..
Hope everyone has wonderful time with your friends..
Jeong Ah
awesome recipe
i keep using it again and again
i cant find fish cake sheets here in bermuda
but its still good
i tried it with cilantro today
it tastes SO good and fresh
Ohmigosh, I’ve been looking for this recipe everywhere. I have been craving it for 7 years and haven’t found it in the states! Thanks so much for posting it. I live in a small town with no Asian food stores nearby. Do you know of any store that sells the rice cakes (Garaeddeok) online? Oh I hope so!! If you know of any I’d be forever grateful! Otherwise do you have a recipe so I can make them myself? Thanks!