Kongguksu
South Korea · East Asia
- Short description
- This chilled noodle dish is creamy without dairy, with a mild soybean broth served cold.
- Ingredients
- Wheat noodles, soy milk broth, cucumber, tomato, boiled egg, sesame seeds, salt, and ice.
- Cultural note
- It is strongly associated with hot-weather eating, when cold broth and plain seasoning are the appeal.
- Common misconception
- The creamy broth is not made with milk or cream; it comes from blended soybeans.
image credit
Kongguksu (soybean cold noodle).jpg
- creator:
- vedanti
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no content edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.