For over fifty years, Daegu was the only area with the habitof eating rice and soup separately as other regions have customarily mixed rice in the soup. ¡®Ttaro¡? means ¡®separate¡?, and ¡®gukbap¡? means ¡®soup and rice¡? in Korean, so that ¡®ttarogukbap¡? as a compound word means ¡?rice and soup served separately¡?. This dish has an unrivaled after-taste that seems spicy as well as refreshing with leek and radish cooked in a soup of beef shank, and plenty of powdered red pepper and chopped garlic. It is the epitome of the unique ¡® spicy and burning' taste found only in Daegu. In particular, during the Korean War, it was immensely popular among refugees from all over the nation. Ttarogukbap is unique in that it is a mix between gomguk (thick beef bone soup) and yukgaejang (spicy soup of chopped beef with various condiments).