So look! More Korean noodles! Let’s see what we’ve got here! Certainly looks interesting but I have no idea what it is. Black bean paste is mentioned prominently in the ingredients, so perhaps that’s the flavor? Upon digging around a bit, I found this from Wikipedia:
Jajangmyeon (also spelled jjajangmyeon; 자장면; 짜장면) is a popular Korean dish, derived from the Chinese dish Zha jiang mian. It consists of wheat noodles topped with a thick sauce made of chunjang (a salty black soybean paste), diced meat and vegetables, and sometimes also seafood. Jajang (also spelled jjajang), the name of the sauce, is the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese characters 炸醬, which literally means “fried sauce.” Myeon (also spelled myun) means “noodle.”
So there we have it.
So some vegetables, a powder packet and some clear oil.
Vegetables awaiting cooking.
The only way to see the oil really is that it’s gotten the dark powder base wet at the edge. This recipe required draining the noodles and leaving a few spoonfuls of water left and stirring it all together to make…
Click image to enlarge. This! Its unique. I like the texture for sure. I think the addition of some green onion would be very nice indeed. Something in the dehydrated veggie pack re-hydrates and is nice and chewy like a piece of meat – tofu perhaps? This stuff isn’t really salty at all – very mellow despite its deep color and thick glaze of goo. It kind of reminds me of Sapporo Ichiban Chow Mein, but different. I like it and I’m giving it 3.75 out of 5.0 stars; it was a welcome surprise and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Bought today 1€, eaten 5 minutes ago. Very good, Like the “chewy thing” too :). I’ve added “S & B Nanami Togarashi” for a spacy taste.
Good.
Greeings from France.
I liked it too. I was equally curious as to what/how it was so I bought a pack and tried it. I went back and bought a 5-pack.