Cycle 16 – Item 99

Post 5,578

14 (Mon) April 2025

Bokkeumbap

2.5

at Shanghai

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

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Try Every Rice Dish at Shanghai (see TERDS)

As with all fried rice dishes at Korean-Chinese restaurants, the rice itself was bland but ultimately passable when mixed in with the jjajang sauce served on the side.  One theory is that the cooks deliberately make the fried rice bland so as not to interfere with the jjajang flavor.   The other fried rice offerings, including samseon bokkeumbap (seafood fried rice),  saewoo bokkeumbap (shrimp fried rice), and gesal bokkeumbap (crab fried rice), as well as jjajangbap (black bean sauce rice), will also come with jjajang sauce and thus will all taste exactly the same, i.e., like jjajang.

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)