15.080 Jjambbong + Bokkeumbap (+ “Jjajang Myeon”)

Cycle 15 – Item 80

25 (Mon) March 2024

Jjambbong + Bokkeumbap (+ “Jjajang Myeon”)

3.5

at Shanghai

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

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An obvious trick to achieving the Holy Trinity of Korean-Chinese by ordering only 2 dishes: get (i) a bowl of jjambbong and (ii) a plate of bokkeumbap (fried rice), which always comes with a side of jjajang sauce; mix some of the noodles from the jjambbong in the sauce to make (iii) an improvised jjajang myeon.

Fried Rice (1.5): while the jjambbong (see for example 14.265 Samseon Jjambbong) and jjajang myeon (see for example 15.040 Jjajang Myeon) are top-notch, possibly the best in the neighborhood, the fried rice is incongruously crappy.

It can also be done, sometimes, by getting (i) a bowl of jjajang myeon and (ii) a plate of fried rice, which usually comes with a side of jjambbong soup; the noodles from the jjajang myeon, if it isn’t premixed with the jjajang sauce, as it is some cases, can be dipped into the soup to make (iii) an improvised jjambbong.

Barely touched the rice.

Even more ambitiously, the Holy Tetrad can be had by ordering just 2 dishes: (i) a bowl of jjamja myeon, comprising half jjambbong + half jjajang myeon (see for example 6.050 Battle Jjamjja) and (ii) a bowl of tangbokbap, comprising half tangsuyuk (sweet & sour pork) / half bokkeumbap (never as yet featured on GMTD).

(See also GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See also RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

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