Cycle 16 – Item 276

POST 5,756

8 (Wed) October 2025

Omurice

1.0

at Shanghai

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

with IZ

Try Every Rice Dish at Shanghai (see TERDS)

Omurice is the last of the “Not At All Chinese” group of rice dishes (the rest of which are distinctly Korean).

It was probably the worst omurice in my experience.  Not really omurice, in the Japanese sense, just fried rice, topped with ketchup, wrapped in a scrambled egg shell.  The rice was super bland, as Korean-Chinese-style fried rice tends to be.  The ketchup was overpowering.  The egg, so thin that the rice underneath was visible, contributed virtually no flavor.  Doesn’t make sense to be priced at 9,000, more than the regular fried rice at 8,000, which has more ingredients, including jjajang sauce.

Actually, the jjambbong wasn’t as good as and somewhat different in composition to what it usually is, making me wonder if the regular chef was on holiday for Chuseok, and so they had to get a temp.

Flying to Indonesia tomorrow for a liveaboard scuba diving trip, I ate jjambbong on the eve of travel, as per my morbid practice of eating my favorite dish before boarding a plane, in case it should crash (into the ocean), so that I could die (or be stranded on a deserted isle), with a final lasting memory of eating my favorite dish.

(See RESTAURANTS IN KOREA)

(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)

(See HANSIK)