Garae tteok has long been a favorite among Koreans. Although it’s just flour made from glutinous rice with salt and water, its long, drawn-out shape was considered a symbol of longevity, and its simple form and flavor make it a great addition to any dish. However, if made incorrectly, they can be too hard or tough and have a bad texture, and if added to a broth, the starch can make the broth mushy and ruin the flavor of the food. 

The best ingredients make the best quality

Since its establishment in 1999, Hanyang Food has been insisting on using the best raw materials to make the best quality products. It has been producing various rice cakes and wheat cakes, in a fresher and more hygienic way to provide customers with excellent products. All of the company’s products are made with the best ingredients, without compromising on price, and with careful thought and research that goes into the flavors that customers want. Hanyang Food is conducting R&D to meet the changing trends in food culture with positive thinking, and all employees are constantly striving, changing and innovating to realize the common goal of ‘customer-taste-impression’ and safe food culture” says CEO Junki Yoon. The company develops all of its products in-house to ensure that they meet the exacting standards of its customers. The company’s R&D team is specialized in finding out what consumers want, developing it accordingly, and delivering it to customers with the best quality. 

‘Jjolbongi,’ an easy-to-cook tteokbokki, earned 2 stars in the 2022 International Food and Beverage Review

The most representative food that comes to mind when thinking of Garaetteok is Tteokbokki. There are many things to buy at snack bars, but it is not very difficult to cook. However, for people who are not good at cooking or who live alone, cooking food themselves can be more burdensome than buying it. Hanyang Food has developed Jjolbongi, a meal kit that contains all the ingredients for tteokbokki, making it easy to cook without spending a lot of time. Jjolbongi comes in a variety of flavors, from the usual original flavor to spicy, jjajang, and garlic rosé, and each and every product is made exclusively for Hanyang Food with raw material suppliers and a lot of research and development, and has an excellent texture. The taste of tteokbokki depends on how well the sauce penetrates into the rice cake. The rice cake used in Jjolbongi has an optimized structure, so when the sauce is added and boiled, the sauce penetrates evenly into the rice cake. As a result, when the product is cooked, the rice cake swells unusually large and goes well no matter what sauce or auxiliary ingredients are used. Because it is made by steaming, even when the tteokbokki is completely cooled, it does not become hard and remains chewy. Since there is little starch released from the rice cake, the soup does not thicken even if it is boiled or left for a long time, so it maintains a clean taste. As a result, ‘Jjolbongi,’ an easy-to-cook tteokbokki, earned 2 stars in the 2022 International Food and Beverage Review held in Belgium. 

The best tteokbokki rice cakes through ODM and OEM

In addition to these HMR products, Hanyang Food also produces the highest quality tteokbokki rice cakes as an ODM, and offers them as a franchise OEM. “Our products can be produced in any form that meets the needs of our customers, and our specialized production facilities allow us to vary shapes, weights, and packaging methods to meet the specifications required by our franchisees” says Hanyang Food. The products include freshly produced rice and wheat cakes, tteokguktteok and jorangi rice cakes, which are dried at low temperatures and vacuum-packed. These dried products are characterized by easy storage and easy cooking. Hororong Noodle Tteokbokkim in particular is distributed in frozen form, with a long shelf life and the texture of fresh rice cakes when thawed. The company also offers its own proprietary and patented sauce, which was developed through years of research to best match the company’s rice cakes. Hanyang Food offers these various food products through a diverse network of franchises, cafeterias, hop-shops, and online malls, and exports to the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, bringing the flavor of Korean food to customers around the world.