Black Bean Noodles

Jjajang myeon—fresh wheat noodles in a sweet-savory black bean sauce with garlic and ginger—can be had in South Korea anywhere, anytime, even delivered to you on the edge of the Han River in Seoul. (Some specialty restaurants focus just on this dish and make the noodles from scratch—if you’re lucky you might get a glimpse of the noodle-maker hand-pulling the noodles.) Both the wheat noodles and the black bean sauce are Chinese in origin; this also goes really well with the