Ddeok Bokki (떡볶이) Spicy Chewy Rice Cakes

This is a very popular snack with Korean teenagers and 20-somethings.  The best places to get it are street-side snack counters and late-night snack trucks, when women old enough to be your aunt slop the molten, spicy goodness onto a plate and hand you a long wooden skewer to spike the logs with.  The rice cakes should be chewy, the sauce should be spicy and a little sweet.

Ingredients: (2 servings)
30 pieces (about 200g) Ddeok bboki ddeok (떡볶이 떡)
1.5 sheets sea spam (어묵), cut into strips
1/2 pack ramen
1 hard boiled egg
1/4 onion, sliced
1/2 big leek, sliced
1/5 carrot, sliced
100g cabbage, sliced (optional)
2.5 cups sardine broth

Spices:
4 spoons red pepper paste (고추장)
1/2 spoon black soybean paste (춘장)
2 spoons corn syrup
soup packet from the ramen
1 spoon rice liquor (맛술)
1 spoon minced garlic
pinch of pepper

Steps:

1. Mix all the sauce ingredients together.
2. Boil a pot of water.  Briefly blanch rice cakes until a little soft.  Add the ramen, and boil a little longer. Remove with a sieve and steam dry.
3. Put the rice cakes, ramen, sea spam, egg, onion, carrot, leek, and cabbage in a heated frying pan.  Pour the sauce on the top.  Pour the broth over the top and simmer until everything is cooked.  If it gets too dry, you can add more water.

Notes:
- You can make the sardine broth yourself by throwing a couple of dried sardines (headless) into boiling water and adding a 10cm square sheet of kelp for about 10 minutes, or you can buy powder packet from the store.  If you're in the States, I'd guess that watered-down chicken broth would work just as well.