champong!

Started by deleted account, June 20, 2013, 05:58:03 PM

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who here has had this spicy Korean delicacy?

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nobody?  xina?  you guys on strike or something?

Chovie D

she's out for a bit. i cant remember if Ive had it or not.

i usually get some kind of sizzling rice bowl when I do korean.

that shit looks good tho preist.

was it hot enough for you?

RAGER

I've made variations of that several times.  Although I didn't know it was called that.  The other spelling looks more familiar to me. (jjamppong)
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no, it wasn't hot enough, and it was a li'l fishier-smelling than I've had before, there was no beef and there was no sea cucumber.  but my main complaint was the noodles.  these were only slightly chewier than chow mein noodles.  the champong noodles I had previously become accustomed to are like none other I've ever had:  they're white, roughly the shape of chow mein noodles but slightly thicker, and their chewiness was unrivaled.  the first bite is almost as rubbery/ springy as biting into a squid tentacle.

yeah, these guys spelled it "Zam Pong".  it was a Korean place that also did some Chinese dishes.  my only other encounters with this dish were at strictly Chinese places that made it and it wasn't on the menu.  at least one of those places is gone now and the other is in Fremont and I don't want to go to fucking Fremont!

Lumpy

I love Korean food, especially the pan chan (i think it's called) all the little appetizers they give you. I've never had that soup though.
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mortlock

I like the spoons they use. I once saw an Asian porn vid where she jacked some dude off into one of those spoons then she ate it..it was cool as fuck. 

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way to stay on topic!

Dunedin

Never had Korean food. Never been jacked off into a spoon either.
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RAGER

I make bibimbap often and something aboot that spoon thing is jarring a distant memory. *chin scratch smiley*
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MadJohnShaft


There's a Korea Town on west Dempster near work - the one my mother in law likes is not very good but it's very authentic and they have a lot of weird ass soups.


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I don't get it.  this "Korea Town", is it a restaurant or an entire Korean district located on one street?  also, by not very good but very authentic do you mean not Americanized like Chinese food?

Lumpy

There is a rice noodle that is super chewy. Same stuff they make rice cake out of (like noodle but in block form). Or is it buckwheat.

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ladysloth

Quote from: Lumpy on June 24, 2013, 02:12:56 PM
There is a rice noodle that is super chewy. Same stuff they make rice cake out of (like noodle but in block form). Or is it buckwheat.

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udon?


maybe not? these arent made from rice.

i've had Champong in Seoul at a lovely restaurant that was next to a cheap hotel i stayed in; didn't realize it was a brothel til about 3am.

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way chewier than udon.  about the same thickness though, or slightly less

RAGER

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ladysloth

like these? i don't know whose noodles we're talking about now. Lumpy's noodles or the noodles that Boxy Brown had or choice C - none of the above.


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no, round like udon.  those are like linguini

Lumpy

#18
This is what I was thinking of (re: rice cake) but maybe that's not it (I meant in noodle form, too)



Bunch of info via Google ("chewy Korean noodle") but no definitive answer, and I don't feel like digging. Could be the right noodle for bowl #2, just not cooked the same way. Or different noodle.
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RAGER

Either way, I would eat the shit out of both.
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Lumpy

There's a spicy tofu casserole (in fiery red sauce, with kimchee) that has slices of chewy rice cake in it... yumm-oh

I think it's called rice cake, I dunno :*(
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deleted account

the more I read on this, it seems that perhaps it was a Chinese dish that got Koreanized somewhere along the way.  Chinese restaurants = Chinese noodles?  I'm thinking:  very possibly.  next stop- Chinatown!

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get on this with all haste Shaft:

http://trayt.com/q/best-champong-in-Chicago-IL

make yourself useful and report back

Chovie D

#23
those are Shanghainese noodles.

ladysloth

Quote from: priest on June 27, 2013, 01:12:53 PM
the more I read on this, it seems that perhaps it was a Chinese dish that got Koreanized somewhere along the way.  Chinese restaurants = Chinese noodles?  I'm thinking:  very possibly.  next stop- Chinatown!
and then that Chinese dish was Japanesed and became Champon. tis a delicious cycle.