Cycle 16 – Item 184

Post 5,663

8 (Tue) July 2025

Samseon Bokkeumbap

2.5

at Shanghai

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

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Try Every Rice Dish at Shanghai (see TERDS)

In the Korean-Chinese tradition, the samseon version of any dish comes with seafood – technically, at least 3 types of seafood, as “sam = 3” + “seon = fresh.”

However, the samseon fried rice here only had shrimp + squid.  Coulda tossed in artificial crab meat, which features in the standard bokkeumbap (see 16.099 Bokkeumbap), to fulfill the promise of 3.   In fact, their samseon jjambbong usually comes with 5: shrimp + octopus + squid + clams + fish (see for example 14.265 Samseon Jjambbong).

Anyway, didn’t matter, given the side of jjajang sauce, the ultimate equalizer in all Korean-Chinese fried rices.

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)