This is a picture-free version of my mom's recipe for Korean rice cake. Before you give this recipe a try, I highly recommend that you view the pictorial version here:
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.