Last night, we got food from a Korean restaurant I've been wanting to try for a while, but just hadn't gotten around to. Nothing fancy. But I was drawn by the idea of their specialty: black noodles in an icy broth (Naengmyeon). Since MrMan had passed out across my lap, Sam went to pick up the food: Korean cold black noodles, black noodles with spicy sauce, and kimchee seafood pancakes. He came back with so many containers (noodles with spicy sauce, noodles with some condiments, broth, vinegar, daikon, hot mustard, pancakes... everything in its own container), we weren't sure what to do. But we channelled our excitement and dug in. Mmm, mmm, good. The Naengmyeon was topped with cucumber, hot sauce, sesame seeds, hard-boiled egg (which I ate), and beef (Sam ate that). We also added daikon. It reminded me of a dish I used to eat and love in the warmer months in China: due to its location, Shenyang had a good amount of Korean food.
If you can get your mouth on some Naengmyeon, I highly recommend.
Actually, Shok, except for the color of the noodles, it's just like the lengmian that I would get at a Korean restaurant near my schol in Shenyang. Yum-m-m!
Posted by: Teri-mom at February 14, 2006 09:06 PMExactly! Slight variation, different name, but basically the same dish. Like banfan and bibimbop.
Posted by: shokufeh at February 15, 2006 12:22 PM