Updated: August 2026

Two restaurants in Abu Dhabi publish a price for rabokki. That is the entire market. The Skewers on Hamdan Street charges AED 45 and Mukbang Shows charges AED 49, and if you only care about the number, stop reading — The Skewers is cheaper. What makes the best rabokki in Abu Dhabi an actual question is that the two menus disagree about what the dish even is.

TL;DR

• Cheapest, latest, most choice: The Skewers, Hamdan Street — AED 45, open to 3 AM
• Best overall meal around the dish: Mukbang Shows, Muroor Road — AED 49, fully halal, whole bunsik table
• If you care about the dish itself: Seoul Street, Al Reem Island — no published price, call ahead

Where can I get rabokki in Abu Dhabi?

At two addresses with published prices: The Skewers Korean BBQ on Hamdan Street at AED 45, and Mukbang Shows on Muroor Road at AED 49. Everywhere else in the capital, you are making a phone call.

Seoul Street on Al Reem Island, Korean Bowl in Al Danah, Hankook on Defence Road and Korean Kitchen in Al Najda all sell Korean food and several of them sell rice cakes, but none publishes a rabokki price and none has a confirmed rabokki on a reachable menu. So the shopping-around advice that works for most Abu Dhabi cuisines does not apply here. You have two known numbers, AED 4 apart, and a set of unknowns.

The two menus put the same dish at opposite ends of their price ladders

This is the finding worth the article, and it is the reason the AED 4 gap is the least interesting thing about these two restaurants.

At Mukbang Shows, rabokki is the cheap option. Rabokki AED 49 sits directly below plain Tteokbokki at AED 55 on the same street-food list. Adding a packet of instant ramyeon takes AED 6 off.

At The Skewers, rabokki is the expensive option. Its published rice-cake dishes are Cheesy Tteokbokki AED 42, Haemul Tteokbokki AED 44 and Rabokki AED 45. The noodle version is the dearest of the three, and there is no plain tteokbokki on the menu at all.

Same word, opposite position. On one menu the noodles are a discount; on the other they are a premium. Nothing about the first menu lets you predict the second, which is exactly why people assume they know what rabokki costs and then get surprised.

The Skewers, Hamdan Street: cheapest, latest, and more choice

The honest price leader. Rabokki AED 45 — the cheapest published in the capital, AED 4 under Mukbang — with two other rice-cake dishes beside it, Cheesy Tteokbokki at AED 42 and Haemul Tteokbokki at AED 44. That cheesy version matters, because it is the single most-requested variation of this dish and Mukbang does not make it in any form.

It is also the only Korean kitchen in Abu Dhabi still serving rabokki in the small hours. Its own menu page publishes hours of 11 AM to 3 AM daily. After Mukbang closes, this is the address.

The rest of the menu is the cheapest published Korean list in the city: Ramen Noodles AED 25, Haemul Pajeon AED 28, Kimchi Fried Rice AED 34, Gimbap AED 38, Jajangmyeon AED 38, Japchae AED 40, Kimchi Jjigae AED 43, Jjampong AED 70. You will find it behind Emax on Hamdan Bin Mohammed Street, though some listings describe the same unit as behind Brands for Less. Phone 02 883 6144 or +971 58 183 8015.

The honest caveat: this is a casual late room rather than a full-service Korean restaurant, and the menu leans street food — it carries a Korean corn dog. More importantly, its halal status is not independently verified in any source we could reach, so confirm directly with the venue before you go. Listings also disagree about its opening hour, so ring first if you are aiming for late morning rather than late night.

Mukbang Shows, Muroor Road: AED 49 and the rest of the table

Mukbang Shows is AED 4 dearer and sells one fewer rice-cake dish, so the case for it is not the rabokki line on its own — it is everything printed around it.

The rabokki is AED 49, described on the menu as rice cakes and ramen noodles in spicy sauce. On the same street-food section sit Tteokbokki AED 55, Eomuk Tang (fish cake soup) AED 49, Gimmari (deep-fried seaweed rolls) AED 49, Mandu AED 48, and three gimbap between AED 41 and AED 48. That is the full pojangmacha spread on one page, and no other kitchen in the capital puts the whole bunsik table in front of you at once. A pot of rabokki with fish cake soup and a plate of gimmari beside it is a genuinely different evening from a pot of rabokki on its own.

The second argument is certainty. Mukbang is 100% halal throughout — beef and chicken only, no pork, no samgyeopsal, no alcohol anywhere on the premises. Every other venue in this guide is an unverified confirm-directly. If that certainty is what you need, it is the only address here that provides it without a phone call.

There are two branches in Al Danah running the same menu: Muroor Road at 547 Sultan Bin Zayed The First St (+971-50-158-9433) and Electra Street, behind Sun and Sand Sports on Zayed The First St (+971-2-564-0446). Electra is the closer of the two to Hamdan Street.

The honest caveat: it is beaten on price and beaten on choice for this specific dish. Mukbang sells exactly one rabokki, the plain one — no cheese version, no rose or cream version, no seafood version, no add-ons. It also closes well before The Skewers does, so it is not a late-night option; check current hours directly if you are eating after midnight. And rabokki is strictly à la carte. It is not included in any all-you-can-eat tier (Gangnam AED 69, Daegu AED 89, Jeju AED 99, Bukchon Hanok AED 129), so booking a tier and adding rabokki means paying for both.

Which other Abu Dhabi restaurants are worth knowing?

None of these has a confirmed rabokki, but each answers a different question.

Seoul Street, Al Reem Island. The closest thing the capital has to a rice-cake specialist, and the honest recommendation if you care about the dish rather than the bill. It runs two distinct tteokbokki styles: a creamier mild-spicy one for people who cannot take the full heat, and an authentic Sindang-dong version in a homemade sauce — Sindang-dong being the Seoul district that made the dish famous, so naming the style is a real signal rather than marketing.

The cafe also sits inside a Korean grocery with a full instant-ramyeon aisle, which matters here specifically: rabokki is the one Korean restaurant dish you can genuinely rebuild at home for a few dirhams. No prices, phone or hours are published in any reachable source, so you are going in blind on cost. Confirm halal status directly.

Korean Bowl, Al Danah. The best-rated central option at 4.7 and the easiest to reach on foot from the Al Danah hotels — Al Widih St, behind the Millennium Hotel and Chowking, on 02-675-2562. It runs tteokbokki alongside bulgogi, bibimbap and kimchi, and reviewers describe a cosy, clean room with good banchan. No published price for any rice-cake dish and no confirmed rabokki, so call before making the trip for this dish specifically.

Hankook, Al Nahyan. The value play for rice cakes generally, on Defence Road beside Centre Villa Hotel, opposite the Central Bus Station (+971-2-642-3399). Dishes run around AED 50 with portions reviewers say stretch across three people, which makes it the cheapest way to put rice cakes in front of a group. MyBayut puts a meal for two at around AED 195. One listing claims AED 150-200 per person, which conflicts with everything else, so confirm before planning around a number. No rabokki confirmed.

Korean Kitchen, Al Najda. A small room run by Korean owners scoring 4.8 on Google, behind the Honda showroom near National Hospital (02-444-4898), with meals for two around AED 130. Known for sweet-and-spicy fried chicken and spicy chicken rice rather than rice cakes. No rabokki confirmed.

Best rabokki in Abu Dhabi: the price comparison

Mukbang prices are exclusive of 5% VAT. The Skewers prices were read from its own menu page. Verify before ordering.

Is rabokki halal in Abu Dhabi?

It depends on the kitchen, and the risk points are not the obvious ones. The rice cakes and the gochujang are almost always fine. What to ask about is the fish-cake binder, whether the stock is pork-based, and the toppings — sausage, ham and bacon are common rabokki additions in Korea, and cheese versions vary by supplier.

Mukbang Shows is the only venue in this guide where that question is already answered: 100% halal, beef and chicken only, no pork, no alcohol on the premises. For The Skewers, Seoul Street, Korean Bowl, Hankook and Korean Kitchen, halal status is not independently verified in any source we could reach — confirm directly with each venue. That is not a mark against any of them; it simply means nobody has published it where a reader can check.

For wider context on where to eat in the capital, Time Out Abu Dhabi’s guide to the best Korean restaurants and MyBayut’s roundup with cost-for-two figures are both worth a look.

What is rabokki? (라볶이)

Rabokki is tteokbokki with instant ramyeon noodles cooked into it. The name is a portmanteau of ramyeon plus tteokbokki, and it is a subset of tteokbokki rather than a rival dish — same gochujang sauce, same cylindrical garaetteok rice cakes, plus noodles.

It comes out of 1980s bunsik shops, associated with Seoul’s Sindang-dong district and with the snack stalls outside school gates, where a cheap packet of instant noodles stretched one pot far enough to feed two kids rather than one. That origin is still visible in the economics: noodles cost less per gram than rice cakes, which is why Mukbang’s noodle version undercuts its plain one.

The part almost nobody writes down: rabokki usually tastes milder per bite than the tteokbokki it is built from. The noodles and the starch they shed dilute and absorb the gochujang, so the sauce thins even though nothing was done to reduce the heat. The heat then concentrates at the bottom of the pot as it reduces, which is why the last few spoonfuls hit harder than the first.

Still deciding between the two? Our full breakdown of tteokbokki vs rabokki works through it. For the plain rice cakes, see the best tteokbokki in Abu Dhabi.

Which areas of Abu Dhabi should you actually go to?

There is no metro system in Abu Dhabi, so every one of these is a car, a taxi or a ride-hailing app, and distance matters more than it would in a city with rail.

Al Danah is where the choice is. Mukbang Shows runs both its branches here — Muroor Road and Electra Street — and Korean Bowl sits nearby behind the Millennium Hotel. If you want options within a short hop of each other, this is the area.

Hamdan Street / Al Markaziya is one address and one reason: The Skewers, behind Emax, with the cheapest published rabokki and a 3 AM close. It is close to the Electra Street branch, which makes an early dinner at one and a late pot at the other genuinely practical.

Al Reem Island is a deliberate trip for Seoul Street rather than somewhere you pass through, and it is worth it mainly if you also want the grocery.

Al Nahyan and Al Najda hold Hankook and Korean Kitchen respectively — worth knowing for value across a whole meal rather than for this dish.

For anyone hunting the best rabokki in Abu Dhabi after midnight, the geography collapses to a single answer: Hamdan Street.

How to order rabokki so it does not turn gluey

Read the whole rice-cake ladder, not the rabokki line. At Mukbang, rabokki is AED 6 below the plain tteokbokki. At The Skewers, it is AED 1 to AED 3 above the cheesy and seafood versions. The same word means opposite value depending on which kitchen you are in.

Eat it in the first ten minutes. Rice cakes shed starch continuously. A pot that arrives looking soupy will be exactly right after about five minutes and gluey by twenty. This is the single biggest thing people get wrong with this dish.

Never order it last. For the same reason, rabokki is a poor final dish after a long barbecue. Put it early or mid-meal, as a shared pot.

Call ahead everywhere except the two that publish. Seoul Street, Korean Bowl, Hankook and Korean Kitchen list no rabokki price and none is confirmed on their menus. Confirm cost and availability before you drive.

Ask about the stock and the toppings. Do not assume from the photo. The binders and the stock are where the halal questions actually live, not the rice cakes.

Build a spread rather than doubling up. At Mukbang, adding gimmari at AED 49, mandu at AED 48 or a gimbap from AED 41 turns one pot into a table. Ordering two rice-cake dishes instead just gives you more of the same texture.

Our guide to Korean street food in Abu Dhabi covers the wider bunsik menu, and late night Korean food in Abu Dhabi has the after-midnight picture in detail.

FAQ

How much does rabokki cost in Abu Dhabi in 2026?
Two published prices: AED 45 at The Skewers on Hamdan Street and AED 49 at Mukbang Shows. Every other Korean venue in the capital requires a phone call.

Which is better, The Skewers or Mukbang Shows?
The Skewers wins on price, choice and hours. Mukbang wins on verified halal status and on the full street-food menu around the dish. Pick on which of those you need.

Where can I get cheesy rabokki in Abu Dhabi?
Nowhere published. The Skewers sells Cheesy Tteokbokki at AED 42 but no cheese version of rabokki, and Mukbang makes no cheese rice-cake dish at all.

Is rabokki included in Mukbang’s all-you-can-eat tiers?
No. It is à la carte at AED 49. The tiers run AED 69 to AED 129 and cover barbecue rather than street food, so you would pay for both.

Does rabokki taste spicier than tteokbokki?
Usually milder. The noodles dilute and absorb the sauce, though the heat concentrates at the bottom of the pot as it cooks down.

Which place is open latest for rabokki?
The Skewers publishes hours of 11 AM to 3 AM daily and is the only Korean kitchen in the capital serving this dish in the small hours.

Two prices, AED 4 apart, that mean completely different things on their own menus — that is the honest state of the best rabokki in Abu Dhabi in 2026. Go to Hamdan Street if you want it cheap, late, or with cheese on the rice cakes beside it. Go to Muroor Road if you want it inside a full halal Korean meal with the rest of the street-food table on the same page.