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짜장쟁이
28Apr2009 Filed under: product review 음식 리뷰 Author: fatmanseoulIt’s the first FatManSeoul play-along-at-home taste test!
We’ve long wanted to try something that our friends from afar could join in, and found inspiration in Eat Your Kimchi’s ramen taste-test.
While they had lots of fun finding the most foreigner friendly of the reconstitutable ramens, they did have one utter failure: 짜장볶이.
고마워, KoreaSMART.com!
What can account for this mysterious non-starter? Why were they not wowed by the black stuff? Were there preparation errors? Anti-Chinese agitators? Is it just gross? Was it a brand issue?
Well, we here at FatManSeoul intend to find out! ~ but we need your help to do it. Here’s how to participate:
Go to your local Korean market (if overseas – just stop by the local minimart if you’re in country) and pick up as many different kinds of instant jjajang as you like. Fix ‘em. Take some snaps. Eat it up. Then, let us know what you think! We’ll post the results next week, and provide a guide to the best powdered black bean sauce noodles money can buy!
A quick guide to prep:
Cup style – peel back the lid halfway and pull out those sauce packets. If there’s a separate one for veggies, open it up and dump the contents in the cup with the noodles. Now, fill the cup to the interior mark with boiling water. Wait 2-3 minutes, and drain almost all the water. Pull off the lid completely, and pour in the flavor packets. Mix. Photograph. Eat. Review.
Packet style – Fill a small pot with water and bring to boil. Dump in noodles and veggie pack and cook for 2-3 min. Drain almost all the water, and dump in flavor packets. Mix. Photograph. Eat. Review.
- Tags: instant jjajang, 짜볶이, 짜파게티, 짜장면, 짜짜로니, ramen, taste test
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3gyupsal
April 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Hey are you including the type of Jja Jjang that has the fresh noodles and the sauce packet that you heat up in the boiling water? That stuff is pretty good. Or is that a whole different story? BTW Jja Jjang is usually pretty cheap anyway when you just order it.
Ambitious
April 29th, 2009 at 5:22 am
You’re ON like Donkey Kong! Can I add some ingredients, or does it have to be as is, untouched, in all of its processed in oil glory??
fatmanseoul
April 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Since this is intended primarily as a taste test, we’d like to restrict it to cup or foil packet, with traditional preparation so everybody can compare the same thing. After you’ve evaluated the taste of the regular stuff, feel free to gussy it up and tell us how you did it. We’re also going to hold off on comparing the “fresh” versions, or restaurant stuff. They’re all fun, cheap, and sometimes delicious, but we’d like to take stock first of a particular iteration.
On the other hand, if you’d like to to do a comparison of different brands of “fresh” ramen, go ahead and write it up. We’ll be happy to post it here.