Cool and delicious Summer Food
Cold Soybean Noodle Soup
The reason why the cold soybean noodle soup of Jeonju is so special is the soybean! The soybean soup, made with soybeans produced in Korea, is thick and dense enough that the soybean soup doesn’t flow between the noodles. It’s soft like the cream on a café latte. It earns praise from gourmets who say, ‘it’s not soybean soup, but soybean cream.’ Jeonju soybean noodle soup uses buckwheat noodles used in Japanese buckwheat noodle dishes. The buckwheat noodles enhance the taste, so soybean noodle soup cools down the body. The chewy buckwheat noodles are easily swallowed with soybean soup.
Jeonju Gamaek
Gamaek is the unique drinking culture that started in Jeonju. Gamaek means ‘beer drunk in a mom-and-pop store.’ It’s done at a store where everyone can drink with a simple side dish. A Gamaek store is a plain mom-and-pop store in appearance but can make a beer geek’s heart pound. The cool beer is perfect, but the unique side dishes per Gamaek store is another delicacy. Cheongyang chili chicken, fresh squid, and grilled dried pollack, among other special side dishes, call for another glass of beer.
Soba
Nothing compares to Soba to stimulate the appetite exhausted by sizzling heat. The heat is cleared away as soon as the slightly frozen broth hits the back of a throat. The meaty broth of Jeonju Soba determines the proud deep taste of Soba. The broth is made with bonito, anchovies, and kelp. The key point is to enhance the sweet taste. The broth of Jeonju Soba is subtle, sweet, salty, and refreshing. It’s recommended to put noodles in the broth for Jeonju Soba, like cold noodle soup, rather than soaking the noodles in the broth.