Description
A Korean dish, popular in northern China. I ate this for lunch every day for an entire year when I lived in Jinzhou, China. The cook was certain that eating this cold dish during the cold northern winter would be bad for my stomach, but it never was! This makes a wonderfully refreshing lunch during the hot summertime.
Ingredients
- 4 ounces spaghetti, or as needed
- 2 cups very cold ice water
- ½ cup white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons sambal oelek (chile paste)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cucumber, cut into matchsticks
- ½ cup kimchi
- ¼ cup roasted peanuts
- 1 hard-cooked egg, halved (Optional)
- 2 slices deli ham, cut into bite-sized pieces (Optional)
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water
- stirring occasionally
- until tender yet firm to the bite
- about 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- combine ice water
- vinegar
- soy sauce
- sugar
- and sambal oelek in a bowl. Refrigerate sauce to chill until spaghetti is cooked.
- Rinse cooked spaghetti in cold water until totally cooled off; drain well.
- Divide sauce between 2 chilled servings bowls. Add equal amounts of spaghetti
- cucumber
- kimchi
- peanuts
- egg
- and ham to each bowl. Serve immediately.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Servings: 2