Cycle 14 – Item 237

30 (Wed) August 2023

Oneuleun Jjambbong

2.25

at Oneuleun Jjambbong

-Changgok, Sujeong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-

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Oneuleun Jjambbong is a Korean-Chinese restaurant.  The names means “today is (오늘은) jjambbong” – i.e., “today is the day for jjambbong.  Otherwise,

During our visit, every table comprised a family, mostly with young children, everyone eating tangsu yuk and jjajang myeon and/or fried rice – not a single jjambbong in sight.

Without a standard seafood version, I went with the basic jjambbong, the restaurant’s eponymous dish.

The jjambbong is graded below, based on GMTD’s 4-point scale, applied to the dish’s 3 primary components.  The final score is the average of the 3 subscores.

BROTH.  Bland and mild.  Score: 2.0

NOODLES.  Standard.  Cooked to al dente.  Score: 3.25

TOPPINGS.  Strips of pork – dry.  Strips of napa cabbage, onions, zucchini – mushy.  Score: 1.5

CONCLUSION.  Not terrible but utterly forgettable.  Final: 2.25

First and (very likely) only visit.

(See also GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See also RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)