Introduction

Refreshing, spicy, satisfying. Cold spicy noodles were probably one of my favorite dishes growing up as a kid, I know - a weird favorite food to have. My mom would always buy the pre-packaged kinds from the Korean grocery store, and I remember always craving it on the hottest days of the summer. I wanted to recreate these memories by making some Korean cold noodles at home from scratch. Not only is this recipe really easy to make, but the ingredients are also simple.

The trick is to not overcook the noodles so there’s still a bit of a bite to them after chilling. In case you’re wondering where I got all of these ingredients, you can find a lot of them in the Asian Foods isle at the grocery store! The one thing I purchased from the Asian market were the Korean pepper flakes, which you can try to substitute with cayenne pepper, chili de arbol, or any other chili flake/powder that you have access to.