Cycle 4 – Item 205

29 (Mon) July 2013

Jjajang Myeon

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at Son Jjajang Maeul

-Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

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Son Jjajang Maeul is a Korean-Chinese restaurant.  Specializes in hand-pulled noodles.

The sign claims that they have a patent but doesn’t explain what the patent is for.

The photo shows 5 brothers.  Really, the restaurant supports the livelihoods of 5 brothers?!?!

On my way to/from the cabin, near the off-ramp into the city Yangpyeong, a small street-side sign advertises hand-pulled noodles, one of my favorite things in the world.  They’re increasingly scarce in Seoul but abound elsewhere throughout the country.  Though tempted, I never took the bait until this evening.

By default, I ordered jjajang myeon.  The noodles were pretty good, as hand-made noodles usually are, on texture alone.  The sauce, however, was thick and goopy, bland, like the crap from cheap delivery joints – surprising because any place that’s put in the effort to make hand-pulled noodles also tends to serve them in a sauce worthy of the effort.

(See also GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See also RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)