How to pronounce Milmyeon

Milmyeon is written 밀면 where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mil.mjʌn/. In plain English letters that is MEEL-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 Milmyeon?

Milmyeon is a noodle dish of South Korea. Where it comes from: Busan. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and beef. It tastes fresh, sour and spicy.

Where Milmyeon comes from

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

• Dwaeji-gukbap 돼지국밥 · Soup & stew · Busan

  Dwaeji-gukbap is pork and rice soup: a broth simmered from pork bones, with sliced pork, served with rice, salted shrimp, onion, garlic, green chillies, noodles and kimchi that diners add as they like.

• 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 Milmyeon in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Milmyeon:

• Morioka reimen 盛岡冷麺 · Noodles & pasta · Morioka, Iwate, Japan

  Morioka reimen is the cold noodle dish of Morioka in Iwate Prefecture, an adaptation of the Korean cold noodle dish naengmyeon.

• Beef noodle soup 牛肉麵 · Noodles & pasta · Taipei, Taiwan

  Beef noodle soup, niúròumiàn, is Taiwan's signature noodle dish: thick wheat noodles in a deep broth of slowly braised beef, often red-braised with soy sauce, chilli bean paste and spices, topped with greens and pickled mustard.

• Lanzhou beef noodles 兰州牛肉面 · Noodles & pasta · Lanzhou, Gansu, China

  In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the old Silk Road, a bowl of beef noodles is breakfast.

• Mie Aceh mi Aceh · Noodles & pasta · Aceh, Indonesia

  Mie Aceh, Aceh noodles, is the curried, spicy noodle dish of Aceh at the northern tip of Sumatra.