How to pronounce Jjolmyeon

Jjolmyeon is written 쫄면 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /t͈ɕol.mjʌn/. In plain English letters that is JOHL-myun, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Jjolmyeon?

Jjolmyeon is a noodle dish of South Korea. Where it comes from: Incheon. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and vegetables. It tastes spicy, sour and sweet.

Where Jjolmyeon comes from

Jjolmyeon is one of 45 signature dishes of South Korea on this map.

• Jjajangmyeon 짜장면 · Noodles & pasta · Incheon

  Jjajangmyeon is wheat noodles topped with a thick black sauce of chunjang (fried black bean paste), diced pork, onion and other vegetables.

• Kimchi 김치 · Snack · Korean peninsula

  Koreans have salted vegetables for winter for well over a thousand years, but the red kimchi most people picture is younger: chilli peppers only reached Korea from the Americas around the 16th or 17th century.

• Bibimbap 비빔밥 · Rice dish · Jeonju

  Bibimbap simply means "mixed rice": a bowl of warm rice topped with seasoned vegetables, often beef and an egg, all stirred together with chilli paste just before eating.

• Tteokbokki 떡볶이 · Street food · Seoul

  Tteokbokki started as a court dish: cylinders of rice cake stir-fried with beef and vegetables in soy sauce, recorded in royal kitchens of the Joseon dynasty.

• Seolleongtang 설렁탕 · Soup & stew · Seoul

  Seolleongtang is ox bone soup: leg bones, brisket and other cuts of beef simmered over a low flame for many hours, sometimes a whole day, until the broth turns milky white and cloudy.

• Dak-hanmari 닭한마리 · Soup & stew · Seoul

  Dak-hanmari means "one whole chicken", and that is the dish: a whole chicken in a big pot with potato, spring onion and garlic, boiled at the table.

Food of South Korea

Dishes like Jjolmyeon in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Jjolmyeon:

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• Jiangshui noodles 浆水面 · Noodles & pasta · Tianshui and Lanzhou (Gansu), China

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