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Janchi-guksu

Janchi-guksu (Banquet Noodle Soup) · 잔치국수

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 30 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

This janchi guksu puts zucchini, carrot and egg over thin noodles in anchovy-kelp broth. Preparing the toppings and cooking the noodles are separate jobs, even though the finished bowl looks simple.

Compare the fine noodles with kalguksu’s sliced wheat noodles. If a seasoning sauce is served separately, begin with a small amount and notice how it changes the broth as you eat.

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Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
Somyeon (thin wheat noodles)	200 g	Capellini comes close
Dried anchovies for stock	15	A dash of fish sauce and half a chicken stock cube
Dried kelp	1 palm-size sheet	Korean grocers online
Korean zucchini	1/3	Zucchini
Carrot	1/4	Anywhere
Eggs	2	For the ribbons
Crushed roasted seaweed	2 tbsp	Crumble roasted gim sheets
Korean soup soy sauce	1 tbsp	Half salt, half soy sauce
Scallion	1/2 stalk	Thin scallions
Sesame oil and seeds	A little	Korean grocers online

Step by step

1.Draw the anchovy stock
Toast the headed and gutted anchovies in a dry pot for thirty seconds to chase the fishiness, then add five cups of water and the kelp and simmer ten minutes. Lift the kelp once it boils, steep the anchovies five minutes more, and strain.
2.Make the toppings
Julienne the zucchini and carrot and fry each with a little salt. Separate the eggs, fry whites and yolks into thin crepes, and slice into ribbons.
3.Season the broth
Bring the strained stock back to a boil and season with soup soy sauce, using salt alongside so the color stays pale.
4.Boil the somyeon
Fan the noodles into plenty of boiling water and cook three minutes, adding half a cup of cold water each time it foams up, twice. Drain and scrub-rinse in cold water to shed the starch.
5.Assemble and serve
Coil the noodles into bowls and pour over the hot broth. Arrange the zucchini, carrot, egg ribbons, seaweed, and scallion by color, and finish with a drop of sesame oil and sesame seeds.

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Myeongdong Halmeoni Guksu

Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul

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Ihwa Guksi

Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

서울특별시 용산구 이태원로 143-9, 지층 (이태원동)Checked 2026.08.09

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The fictional face of this dish

Water element · a face of soft curves

Never loud, yet always exactly where you are needed. Behind the mild first impression runs a warm broth that treats other people's good news as your own: the feast-day face.

Upright: A postponed celebration is calling your name. Put the noodle water on first, for long-awaited news is about to come slurping in.

Reversed: All feast rumors and no noodles in the pot. Instead of envying other people's parties, start drawing your own broth. Celebrations, too, come to the one who is ready.

The K-Roast take: Grandma's roast

Fictional food metaphors inspired by traditional face-reading, not measurements of your face or personality.

Those brows are faint as anchovy broth. A light Palace of Siblings means living clear, unchained by clinging. You are janchi-guksu broth, child: it seems like plain water at the first sip, and only near the bottom of the bowl does its depth come clear. But mildness has its limits too. You show so little of yourself that people cannot find your seasoning.

That philtrum groove stands straight as a noodle strand. A clear philtrum puts credit in your words. Your speech is measured somyeon: drawn even, neither thick nor thin, so people swallow it on trust. Feast noodles do not appear on just any table, and your words belong to precious occasions too, so stop spilling them cheap.

Those cheekbones only quietly hold their place. Subtle cheekbones mark the harmonizer who seeps in rather than stepping forward. Have you ever seen the noodles play the lead at a wedding, shoving aside the bride and groom? No. But a feast without noodles never earns the name of feast. That is your fate exactly: others take the credit while the occasion is completed by you. Do not be hurt; guard your broth.

You are the one who boils noodles for other people's happy days. The connections who drank your broth will come rolling in at dawn on your own feast day with their sleeves rolled up. Not one of the years you spent on others' good news has gone to waste.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

One piece of well-ripened cabbage kimchi brings the color back to your mild broth, a born match. Beside oil-slicked samgyeopsal, your clear stock is smothered in grease and smoke, so meet only at the far end of the feast table.