naengmyeon
Noun
Meaning
naengmyeon (uncountable)
A Korean dish of long, thin hand-made noodles made from flour and starch from various ingredients.
Examples
Naengmyeon with a cold soup mixed with dongchimi (watery radish kimchi) and beef brisket broth was eaten in court during summer.
"We were unprepared for the sudden crowd and almost unable to serve all customers on Friday," the owner of Kangseo Myun Oak, a restaurant that serves Pyongyang naengmyeon in Jung-gu, central Seoul, said.
To elderly people who came as refugees from North Korea during the Korean War in the 1950s, making or eating naengmyeon was a nostalgic treat.