![]() But after we finished, my father and I kind of looked at each other sheepishly my father finally broke and admitted “this jjajangmyeon is really good… but kind of sucks”. It was in all honesty the ‘finest’ jjajangmyeon I’ve ever eaten, the ingredients were incredibly fresh, the sauce light, almost creamy, and presented beautifully. On a trip to South Korea with my father we decided to make the trek to a restaurant in Incheon that was supposedly the birthplace of the Koreanized version of Chinese Zha jiang mian, 炸酱面 that would become the identity defying jjajangmyeon we have all grown to know and love. Regardless, jjajangmyeon is here to stay, and my love for it requires that we do what we can to make it a national dish because I’m not going to live in Flushing, NY forever, and I want to be sure there’s a good 자장면집 (jjajangmyeon house) nearby. I myself have some slight discomfort when I see squid ink pasta so I can’t fault someone entirely for being a little skeptical when seeing a bowl of the ol’ black stuff. It might be because you don’t normally see black colored food (coffee and chocolate are more of a dark brown). However, jjajangmyeon is the one dish I’ve seen push back on. Korean food is only growing in popularity in the US and I have had no trouble introducing my non Korean -American friends to the dishes I grew up with. It also doesn’t hurt that my birthday happens to fall on a national holiday where eating jjajangmyeon is tradition. and jjajangmyeon for making every Korean American boy say “I love you 엄마”.įor that alone we at Goghism would be more than happy to highlight a dish that is so important to Korean and Korean American culture, but has yet to break through to the rest of the world in the way that it deserves. ![]() When a boy complains to his mother about them always eating instant ramen his impoverished mother takes her scraped together savings and buys him a bowl of jjajangmyeon… when he asks her why she isn’t eating she just replies “자장면이 싫다고 하셨어” (I don’t like jjajangmyeon)… trust me, watch the MV. I am confident in saying that jjajangmyeon is the Waffle House of Korean dishes it doesn’t matter how much money you have, how cultured/worldly you may be, no Korean is too extra for a bowl of hot chewy noodles in black bean sauce ( chunjang).Īsk any Korean boy over the age of 25 what I’m talking about and he’ll agree: the most powerful and emotional line in the history of music is from G.O.D.’s – To My Mom. Definitely not on the same level popularity wise as its internationally beloved predecessor instant ramen (ramyun), jjajangmyeon (often spelled jajangmyeon or jajangmen) holds a special place in every Korean person’s heart.
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