Harmony of Rice Cake and Coffee that Makes All the Villagers’ Day

In front of the cafe, people are standing in a queue to buy a cup of coffee. The small table outside it is occupied by the seniors of the neighborhood who have already got their coffee and rice cake. Lunch hour has just passed and already all the rice cake prepared for today has been sold out. Clara's Rice Cake & Coffee is next to Yangsu-ri Mill. Most cafes serve cookies or cake with coffee. But at this cafe, rice cake (tteok) boastfully accompanies coffee. The owner of the cafe, Clara, is a daughter of the owners of Yangsu-ri Mill.

The seniors who were sitting at the table and drinking coffee speak to newcomers, eager to share their affection for the cafe: "You should get a cup of coffee. This cafe serves Korea's best coffee." "No, it's the world's best. I even ordered coffee beans from this cafe while I was abroad."

Yangpyeong is known as a city with the highest population of artists in Korea, and it is told that every one of them call himself or herself "a fan of Clara’s Rice Cake & Coffee." You may now wonder how the cafe's coffee tastes. The owner describes it in a note attached to a wall of the cafe.

“A cup of coffee brewed with great care tastes like the soil, sky, fog, wind, starlight, and songs of birds of the place where the coffee beans grew. Relish your coffee sip by sip. It presents you with different aromas and flavors as it cools down. You can hear the sounds of high mountains."

Located next to a mill, the cafe sometimes smells of ground red peppers and pressed sesame oil; however, the coffee brewed here never loses its unique color and aroma. The cafe is where the people of Yangsu-ri share happiness over a cup of coffee.

 Clara's Rice Cake and Coffee is open from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm. It sells only the rice cake made on the day or the day before and when the amount prepared for the day is sold out, which is usually around the lunch hour, they do not take orders anymore. Among eight menu item options for rice cake, jeolpyeon (patterned rice cake) and injeolmi (rice cake coated with powdered soybeans) are most popular. The others include hobakseolgi (pumpkin rice cake) and chalsirutteok (steamed rice cake with red beans).

 Delivery service is available for ground coffee beans roasted by the owner.

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