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Sujebi

Sujebi (Hand-torn Dough Soup) · 수제비

Difficulty: Easy
Time to plan: 50 min
Serves: 2 servings
Recipe: 5 steps
Listed places: 2

Food notes and context

Sujebi tears wheat dough into pieces to cook in broth. This recipe includes potato, zucchini and clams, so dough thickness and vegetable size both affect how the pot cooks.

Compared with evenly sliced kalguksu noodles, torn dough can vary between its edges and center. Keep pieces reasonably thin and add them separately so they do not adhere into a thick lump.

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Ingredients (2 servings)

Ingredient	Amount	Substitute abroad
All-purpose flour	2 cups	Anywhere
Potato starch	2 tbsp	For chew; fine to omit
Salt and oil	A little, for the dough	Anywhere
Anchovy-kelp stock	6 cups	Clam stock is even more refreshing
Potato	1	Anywhere
Korean zucchini	1/3	Zucchini
Clams	1 cup (optional)	Fine to omit
Garlic and soup soy sauce	A little	Anywhere
Green chili and scallion	A little	Anywhere

Step by step

1.Knead and rest the dough
Work water bit by bit into the flour, starch, salt, and oil, kneading to earlobe softness, then wrap and rest in the fridge at least an hour.
2.Boil the potato in stock
Bring the stock to a boil and cook the sliced potato five minutes first. Clams go in now if using.
3.Tear in the dough
Stretch the dough thin with both hands and tear bite-size pieces straight into the boiling broth. The thinner, the better.
4.Vegetables and seasoning
Add the zucchini and garlic, boil until the dough pieces float up translucent, and season with soup soy sauce.
5.Chili on top and serve
Top with bias-cut chili and scallion and serve hot. A seasoned soy sauce on the side does no harm.

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Samcheong-dong Sujebi

Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul

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Gaeseong Mandu Koong

Insadong, Jongno-gu, Seoul

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The fictional face of this dish

Water element · a face of soft curves

You seem to live freehand, no set frame, yet what comes out of your hands is always warm: the face of cloud-soft dough, made for a rainy window seat.

Upright: A day you may tear freehand, no written plan. Uneven pieces catch the broth best, so start imperfect and start now.

Reversed: You have held the dough too long. Even resting turns to spoiling past its hour, so throw what is in your hands into the boiling water today.

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 light: an unbound face. Sujebi is the same, no ruler-cut noodles, just dough torn freehand as the moment asks. Your life looks improvised to others too. But child, there are thirty years of practice in a sujebi-tearing hand. Your improvisation is rehearsed improvisation; you are the only one who has not noticed.

Those lips are plump: deep affection. Sujebi never made it to the guest-of-honor table, but it never missed the family one. Your affection is exactly that kind: no ceremony, but nobody leaves hungry. The hand that fed a whole family from one lump of dough in the lean years, that is your hand.

Those cheekbones glow softly: the harmonizer's face. Potato, zucchini, clams, whatever enters the sujebi pot gets along, because the dough never insists on itself. The gatherings you join run gentle for the same reason. Just do not miss your own moment to speak while blending in. Even dough gets its pinch of salt.

Torn every which way, yet everything cooks in one pot: that is sujebi, and that is life. No shame in uneven shapes. The piece that drinks the most broth is always the best one in the bowl.
Grandma's blessing

Table compatibility

Chewy potato pancake is the broth-and-dough match Samcheong-dong proved long ago. Squeeze onto the lavish galbi table and your plainness gets treated as a side dish, so reign in your own alley.