Cycle 15 - Item 154 7 (Fri) June 2024 Gganpunggi + Fried Rice (+ "Jjajang Myeon" + "Jjambbong") Yewon 2.5 -Garak, Songpa, Seoul, Republic of Korea- with IZ Yewon is a Korean-Chinese restaurant. All the classics, no more, no less. Presumably af…
Yewon is a Korean-Chinese restaurant. All the classics, no more, no less. Presumably after Shanghai's famous Yu Garden (aka "Yuyuan" in Chinese aka "Yewon" in Korean), many Korean-Chinese restaurants in Korea use the name, some related to each other, but this place appears to be independent.
Located 288 m from National Police Hospital Station (Exit 1).
On the drive home after picking up IZ from a classmate's birthday party this afternoon, I was struck by the audacity of the restaurant's front signage, which seemed to merit a drop-in for a quick preprandial snack.
In contrast to the exterior, the dining room was quite plain, didn't look at all Chinese.
All the telltale signs of a neighborhood delivery joint, including stainless steel chopsticks, paper cups, plastic water jug, basic banchan.
Anticipating to eat a bowl of jjajang myeon or jjambbong or bokkeum bap (of course), I was happily surprised to discover a menu offering unseen elsewhere: split bowl combos featuring jjajang myeon or jjambbong or bokkeum bap on one side, and gganpung gi on the other. The dish is typically sold in large sharing platters, priced at 30,000 won or more. But here, as part of a split bowl combo, a small individual portion for just 9,500 won, along with noodles or rice, making it a complete meal. They should do this for all the other "fancy" dishes (see below).
Also, split bowl combos featuring gansho saewoo for 10,000 won.
The food itself was okay. The chicken was simultaneously greasy and dry, though the flavor was fine. The fried rice (bokkeum bap) was meh, but saved as always by the jjajang sauce. Also came with a bowl of jjambbong soup. Good value.
3,000 won.
Previously, I've explained how to combine a plate of fried rice and a bowl of jjambbong to create a bowl of jjajang myeon (see 15.080 Jjambbong + Bokkeumbap (+ "Jjajang Myeon"), also to combine a plate of fried rice and a bowl of jjambbong to create a bowl of jjajang myeon (see 15.082 Yuni Jjajang Myeon (+ "Jjambbong")), both being methods of sorta expanding the spread with components already on the table.
Taking a bite of IZ's jjajang myeon, I was mildly impressed by the texture of the noodles, which were pleasantly firm and chewy, inspiring me to order a bowl of sari - for the first time in my life - in the end, I enjoyed a small portion of gganpungi + half plate of fried rice + mini bowl of jjajang myeon + mini bowl of jjambbong at a total cost of 12,500 won.
Another expansion trick, only possible at a restaurant, and only at restaurants that offer the option, is to order portions of plain noodles (sari) and mix them into leftover jjajang sauce and/or jjambbong soup and/or whatever else.
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