11.   Crispy rice cakes come with an intensely hot curry sauce that sneaks up on you, made chunky with ground shrimp.

12.   Dust the rice cakes with flour.

13.   Everywhere, rice cakes are abundant, and many are wrapped in banana leaves in triangles or oblong shapes.

14.   For hundreds of years, Japanese people have been celebrating the New Year by eating an extremely chewy type of rice cake known as mochi.

15.   Forget skimpy salads and rice cakes.

16.   Glutinous rice cakes are especially popular fare for the festivities.

17.   Guests in Seoul can order a ginseng bath with ginseng soap, traditional Korean cookies, rice cakes and ginseng tea or liquor.

18.   Higher up the preparation ladder, there are perfect little no-flour cakes like an Italian rice cake, a semolina cake and a chocolate and espresso cake.

19.   High-glycemic foods like rice cakes, bread and potatoes are probably chief culprits in obesity for many of us.

20.   His fried rice cakes, with scallions, sesame and fish and chili sauces, are easy to make and hard to stop eating.