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์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜

Kong-guksu โ€” Cold Soybean Noodles

ํ•˜์–—๊ณ , ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ , ๊ณ ์†Œํ•˜๋‹ค ยท White. Cold. Unmistakably Korean.

Seasons & Ritual ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ์ • ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ ๋น„๊ฑด ์ €์†๋…ธํ™” Summer Only
์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ์ƒˆํ•˜์–€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธํ•œ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์— ์†Œ๋ฉด๊ณผ ์˜ค์ด ์ฑ„, ์–ผ์Œ์ด ๋‹ด๊ธด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡

Photo: K-Food Stories ยท ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋ง›

You thought Korean summer food was all heat and spice. Then someone slides a bowl of ice-cold, creamy white noodles across the table. โ€” Kong-guksu.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์Œ์‹์ด ๋‹ค ๋นจ๊ฐ›๊ณ  ๋งต๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”? ์ด๊ฑด ํ•˜์–—๊ณ , ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ , ํ•œ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์— ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜(Kong-guksu) ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ.

Story
๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด โ€” ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์  ๊ณ„๊ธฐ

1970๋…„๋Œ€ ๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๊ธ‰์ด ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์„œ๋ฏผ์˜ ์Œ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค

At first glance, it looks like a glass of cold soy milk that got noodles dropped in by accident. The broth is white, thick, ice-cold. Garnish is minimal โ€” a few slices of cucumber, maybe some ice. Not exactly what you picture when someone says "Korean food."

But this dish has royal origins. In Joseon-era palace cuisine, summer meant imjasutang โ€” cold noodles served in a broth made from ground sesame seeds, a dish documented in royal banquet records from the reign of King Gojong. As that tradition spread beyond the palace walls, expensive sesame gave way to something far more accessible: soybeans. A dish for kings became food for everyone. By the late 1800s, a cookbook called Siuijeonseo already records the recipe in a form almost identical to today's โ€” soak the beans, boil them, grind them smooth, season with salt, serve over noodles.

์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‘์œ  ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋จผ์ € ๋“ ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์–—๊ณ  ๊ฑธ์ญ‰ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ, ์–ผ์Œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ, ์˜ค์ด ์ฑ„ ํ•œ ์ค„. "์ด๊ฒŒ ์‹์‚ฌ์•ผ?" ์‹ถ์€ ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ์ด๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ด ์Œ์‹์˜ ์กฐ์ƒ์€ ์กฐ์„  ์™•๊ถ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถ์ค‘์—์„  ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ฒ ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž„์ž์ˆ˜ํƒ•(่ๅญๆฐดๆนฏ)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค โ€” ๊นจ(์ž„์ž)๋ฅผ ๊ฐˆ์•„ ์ฐจ๊ฒŒ ์‹ํžŒ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์— ๋ฐ€๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ง์•„ ๋‚ด๋Š”, ๊ณ ์ข… ์‹œ์ ˆ ์ง„์—ฐ ์˜๊ถค์—๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋œ ์™•์‹ค ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์š”๋ฆฌ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ํผ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ’๋น„์‹ผ ๊นจ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ์ฝฉ์ด ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. 19์„ธ๊ธฐ ๋ง ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์„œ ใ€Ž์‹œ์˜์ „์„œใ€์— ์ด๋ฏธ ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค โ€” ์ฝฉ์„ ์‚ถ์•„ ๊ฐˆ๊ณ , ์†Œ๊ธˆ ๊ฐ„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ€๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ง์•„ ๋จน๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.

์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋จน๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค โ€” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ์ผ์ƒ ํ’๊ฒฝ
"When a restaurant hangs a banner that reads 'Kong-guksu is back,' summer has officially started."

Then the 1970s changed everything. Electric blenders arrived in Korean homes, turning a half-day grinding job into five minutes. The government was simultaneously pushing a "eat less rice" campaign, actively encouraging wheat noodle consumption. Kong-guksu went from occasional to ubiquitous in a single generation.

1970๋…„๋Œ€, ๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์ง‘๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ํŒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฉง๋Œ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๋‚˜์ ˆ ๊ฐˆ์•„์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ด 5๋ถ„์งœ๋ฆฌ ์ž‘์—…์ด ๋๊ณ , ๋งˆ์นจ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ˜ผ๋ถ„์‹ ์žฅ๋ ค ์šด๋™์„ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋ถ™์ด๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋‹จ๋ฒˆ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์Œ์‹์ด ๋๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์‹๋‹น ์•ž "์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค" ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋ง‰์€ ๊ณ„์ ˆ ์•Œ๋žŒ์ด๋‹ค.

Fast Facts
์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์†Œ๊ธˆ vs ์„คํƒ• โ€” ์„œ์šธ์€ ์†Œ๊ธˆ, ์ „๋‚จ์€ ์„คํƒ• Salt or Sugar?
์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ์ • ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์‹๋‹น โ€” ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋ง‰ Summer Only
์ง„์ฃผํšŒ๊ด€ ๋˜๋Š” ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ์ฝฉ๋ฐญ โ€” ์„œ์šธ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋ง›์ง‘ 60 Years Strong

์†Œ๊ธˆ vs. ์„คํƒ• ยท ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ์ • ยท 60๋…„ ์ „ํ†ต

Not a Smoothie

Three ingredients. Soaked white soybeans, water, salt. The result is a flavor so particular that Koreans have never bothered to compare it to anything else.

์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฑ ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ ํฐ์ฝฉ, ๋ฌผ, ์†Œ๊ธˆ. ์ด ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณ ์†Œํ•จ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์•„์ง๋„ ์ ๋‹นํ•œ ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค.

The Salt vs. Sugar Debate

In Seoul, you reach for salt. In Jeonnam province, you reach for sugar. Same bowl, same broth โ€” and somehow it tells you exactly where someone's from.

์„œ์šธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์†Œ๊ธˆ์„ ์ง‘๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ „๋ผ๋„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์„คํƒ•์„ ์ง‘๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์ด ์ง€์—ญ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‹ค.

Summer Only

Most kong-guksu restaurants only serve it in summer โ€” some only from June to September. In a country where almost everything is available year-round, this dish still insists on its season.

๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋ง›์ง‘์ด ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—๋งŒ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ฐ๋‹ค. 1๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๋ญ๋“  ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์ œ์ฒ ์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์Œ์‹ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‹ค.

60 Years & Michelin

Jinju Hoegwan near Seoul City Hall has been doing this for 60 years and is now a Seoul Future Heritage site. Hwanggeum Kongbat in Mapo has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for eight straight years (2018โ€“2025).

์„œ์šธ ์‹œ์ฒญ ์˜† ์ง„์ฃผํšŒ๊ด€์€ 60๋…„์งธ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋งŒ ๊ณ ์ง‘ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์„œ์šธ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์œ ์‚ฐ์— ๋“ฑ์žฌ๋๋‹ค. ๋งˆํฌ์˜ ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ์ฝฉ๋ฐญ์€ 2018~2025๋…„ 8๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ๋ฏธ์‰๋ฆฐ ๋น• ๊ตฌ๋ฅด๋ง.

Trend
๋ง์ฐจ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ์ „ํ†ต์ด ํŠธ๋ Œ๋””๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„

K-Food Trend 2025

"Your grandmother's summer bowl is now the most on-trend thing in Seoul."

ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์Œ์‹์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋””ํ•˜๋‹ค

Kong-guksu's comeback isn't nostalgia. It's strategy. The dominant food trend among Korean millennials and Gen Z in 2024โ€“2025 is jeosok-nohwa (์ €์†๋…ธํ™”) โ€” "slow aging." Cut simple sugars and refined carbs, load up on plant-based protein, eat in ways that work with your body over time. Kong-guksu hits every marker: plant protein, low fat, low sugar, high satiety. It reads like someone reverse-engineered a longevity bowl, then realized Korea had been making it for centuries.

The vegan angle doesn't hurt either. Not a single animal product in the bowl โ€” which lands perfectly for a generation that increasingly eats flexitarian without making a big deal of it. Then Gen Z took it further. A small restaurant in Jongno went viral after K-pop artist Jeon Somi visited for their matcha kong-guksu โ€” sage-green broth, nutty meets bitter, reservations filled overnight. Black sesame versions are now appearing on Western food media as the natural successor to the global matcha wave.

์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋œจ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์šฐ์—ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2024~2025๋…„ MZ์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ ์ €์†๋…ธํ™” โ€” ๋‹จ์ˆœ๋‹น์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ , ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ๊ณ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๋Š” ์‹๋‹จ. ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ๊ต๊ณผ์„œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ๋‹จ๋ฐฑ์งˆ, ์ €์ง€๋ฐฉ, ์ €๋‹น, ํฌ๋งŒ๊ฐ. ๋น„๊ฑด ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€๋„ ๋งž์•„ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ณ , Z์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด SNS ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ๋˜ ์Œ์‹์ด, ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ž์„œ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‹๋ฌธํ™” ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์“ฐ์ด๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค.

์ €์†๋…ธํ™” Plant Protein Vegan-Friendly ๋ง์ฐจ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ Matcha Trend SNS Viral

Photo: K-Food Stories ยท ๋ง์ฐจ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ์ „ํ†ต ์œ„์— ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ž…ํ˜€์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹

Where to Eat
์„œ์šธ ์ค‘๊ตฌ ยท Jung-gu, Seoul ์‹œ์ฒญ์—ญ 1๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ ๋„๋ณด 3๋ถ„ ยท 3 min from City Hall Station exit 1
ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ์ฝฉ๋ฐญ Hwanggeum Kongbat ยท ๋งˆํฌ ์•„ํ˜„๋™

2018โ€“2025 ๋ฏธ์‰๋ฆฐ ๋น• ๊ตฌ๋ฅด๋ง 8๋…„ ์—ฐ์† + ๋ฏธ์‰๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์Šคํƒ€(์ง€์†๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ). ๋งค์ผ ์•„์นจ 100% ๊ตญ๋‚ด์‚ฐ ์ฝฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ง‘. ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ํฐ์ฝฉ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒ€์€์ฝฉ(์„œ๋ฆฌํƒœ) ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค โ€” ์ƒ‰์ด ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ์†Œํ•จ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋ฌต์งํ•˜๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ์ • ๋ฉ”๋‰ด.

Eight straight years on the Michelin Bib Gourmand list, plus a Green Star for sustainability. The kong-guksu here uses black soybeans instead of white โ€” the broth is darker, nuttier, and significantly richer. Foreign-friendly: Michelin listing means plenty of English resources online. Summer only.

๋ช…๋™๊ต์ž Myeongdong Gyoja ยท ๋ช…๋™์—ญ ๋„๋ณด 5๋ถ„

์นผ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ยท๋งŒ๋‘๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ง‘์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํ•œ์ • ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ํŠน์ง•์€ ํด๋กœ๋ ๋ผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ดˆ๋ก๋น› ๋ฉด๋ฐœ. ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ  SNS ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค. ๋ช…๋™ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ์ด๋ผ ์˜์–ด ๋ฉ”๋‰ด ์™„๋น„, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ ์ตœ์ƒ.

Famous for knife-cut noodles, but the summer kong-guksu is worth the visit for one reason: bright green noodles made with chlorella. Visually unlike anything else on the menu. English menus available. Dead center in Myeongdong โ€” the easiest kong-guksu option if you're already in the tourist corridor. Hours: 10:30โ€“21:30 daily.

How to Make at Home

Method 1 โ€” ์ •ํ†ต ์ฝฉ๊ตญ๋ฌผ ยท The Traditional Way

โญโญ Medium 50 min (+ 8hr soak) 2 servings
์žฌ๋ฃŒ ยท Ingredient๋Œ€์ฒด ยท Note
๋ฐฑํƒœ(๋ฉ”์ฃผ์ฝฉ) 1์ปตDried white soybeans โ€” Asian grocery
๋ฌผ 700mlCold filtered water preferred
์†Œ๊ธˆ ์ ๋‹น๋Ÿ‰Add just before serving
์†Œ๋ฉด 2์ธ๋ถ„Thin wheat noodles / vermicelli
์˜ค์ด ์ฑ„, ์–ผ์Œ, ํ†ต๊นจGarnish โ€” optional but classic
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    Soak dried soybeans in cold water for at least 8 hours (overnight is best).

    ๋ฐฑํƒœ๋ฅผ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— 8์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ด์ƒ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์ „๋‚  ๋ฐค์— ๋‹ด๊ฐ€๋‘๋ฉด ์ข‹๋‹ค.

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    Rub soaked beans to remove skins. Rinse well.

    ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ ์ฝฉ์„ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋น„๋ฒผ ๊ป์งˆ์„ ๋ฒ—๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊นจ๋—์ด ์”ป๋Š”๋‹ค.

  3. 3

    Boil beans in fresh water for 30 minutes with the lid slightly ajar. Skim foam.

    ์ƒˆ ๋ฌผ์— ๋šœ๊ป‘์„ ์‚ด์ง ์—ด์–ด๋‘๊ณ  30๋ถ„ ์‚ถ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐํ’ˆ์€ ๊ฑท์–ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค.

  4. 4

    Blend cooked beans with 700ml cold water until completely smooth.

    ์‚ถ์€ ์ฝฉ + ๋ฌผ 700ml โ†’ ๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ์— ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๊ณฑ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค.

  5. 5

    Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. This step makes the broth silky โ€” don't skip it.

    ๊ณ ์šด ์ฒด์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฑธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์†Œํ•จ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค.

  6. 6

    Chill in the fridge. Boil noodles, rinse in cold water. Pour broth over, add ice, season with salt just before eating.

    ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์—์„œ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์‹ํžŒ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋ฉด์„ ์‚ถ์•„ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— ํ—น๊ตฐ ๋’ค ์ฝฉ๋ฌผ ๋ถ“๊ณ , ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ง์ „ ์†Œ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„.

ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํŒ ยท Key Tip

Don't over-boil the beans โ€” 30 minutes is the line. Beyond that, the broth starts tasting like fermented soy paste (doenjang). Good kong-guksu should taste nutty and clean, not funky.

์ฝฉ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ค๋ž˜ ์‚ถ์œผ๋ฉด ๋œ์žฅ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๋‚œ๋‹ค. 30๋ถ„์ด ํ•œ๊ณ„์„ . ์ข‹์€ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ๊น”๋”ํ•ด์•ผ์ง€, ๋ฐœํšจ๋œ ๋ง›์ด ๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค.

์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๋ฒ• โ€” ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ์†Œํ•œ ์ฝฉ๋ฌผ ๋ ˆ์‹œํ”ผ ๊ฟ€ํŒ ํฌํ•จ

YouTube ยท ์ •ํ†ต ๋ฐฉ์‹ ยท ์ƒ์„ธ ์„ค๋ช…

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Method 2 โ€” ๋‘๋ถ€ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ยท The 15-Min Shortcut

โญ Easy 15 min 2 servings
์žฌ๋ฃŒ ยท Ingredient๋Œ€์ฒด ยท Note
๋‘๋ถ€ 1๋ชจ (300g)Firm or soft tofu both work
๋ฌผ 900mlFill the empty tofu container 3 times
๋•…์ฝฉ๋ฒ„ํ„ฐ 1ํฐ์ˆ Natural peanut butter preferred
ํ†ต๊นจ 5ํฐ์ˆ Sesame seeds โ€” key for nuttiness
์†Œ๊ธˆ ยพํฐ์ˆ Adjust to taste
์†Œ๋ฉด 2์ธ๋ถ„โ€”
  1. 1

    Add tofu, water, peanut butter, sesame seeds, and salt to a blender. Blend until completely smooth.

    ๋‘๋ถ€ + ๋ฌผ + ๋•…์ฝฉ๋ฒ„ํ„ฐ + ํ†ต๊นจ + ์†Œ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ์— ์ „๋ถ€ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๊ณฑ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค.

  2. 2

    Taste and adjust salt. Refrigerate for 20 minutes to chill.

    ๋ง›๋ณด๊ณ  ์†Œ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งž์ถ˜ ๋’ค ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ ์— 20๋ถ„ ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ.

  3. 3

    Boil noodles, rinse under cold water, drain. Pour cold broth over. Serve with ice.

    ์†Œ๋ฉด ์‚ถ์•„ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— ํ—น๊ตฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ ์ œ๊ฑฐ. ์ฝฉ๋ฌผ ๋ถ“๊ณ  ์–ผ์Œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€.

ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํŒ ยท Key Tip

Tofu replaces the boiling-and-grinding process entirely. The result is about 80% as good as the traditional method, in 10% of the time. The peanut butter adds fat and depth โ€” don't skip it.

๋‘๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์‚ถ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ •ํ†ต ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ 80% ๋ง›์„ 10๋ถ„์˜ 1 ์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋•…์ฝฉ๋ฒ„ํ„ฐ๋Š” ๊ณ ์†Œํ•จ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ โ€” ๋นผ์ง€ ๋ง ๊ฒƒ.

๋ฐฑ์ข…์›ํ‘œ ์ฝฉ ์—†์ด ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฒ•

YouTube ยท ๋ฐฑ์ข…์› PAIK JONG WON ยท 15๋ถ„ ์™„์„ฑ

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Method 3 โ€” ์ž์ทจ์ƒ ๋ฒ„์ „ ยท The 5-Min Apartment Version

โญ Easy 5 min 1 serving
์žฌ๋ฃŒ ยท Ingredient๋Œ€์ฒด ยท Note
๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๋‘์œ  1ํŒฉ (190ml)Unsweetened soy milk โ€” critical
๋‘๋ถ€ ยผ๋ชจFor extra creaminess
์†Œ๊ธˆ ํ•œ ๊ผฌ์ง‘โ€”
์†Œ๋ฉด 1์ธ๋ถ„โ€”
  1. 1

    Blend unsweetened soy milk + tofu + a pinch of salt for 30 seconds.

    ๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๋‘์œ  + ๋‘๋ถ€ + ์†Œ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฏน์„œ๊ธฐ์— ๋„ฃ๊ณ  30์ดˆ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค.

  2. 2

    Boil noodles, rinse cold, drain. Pour broth over. Add ice.

    ์†Œ๋ฉด ์‚ถ์•„ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— ํ—น๊ตฌ๊ณ  ์ฝฉ๋ฌผ ๋ถ“๊ธฐ. ์–ผ์Œ ๋„ฃ๊ธฐ. ๋.

ํ•ต์‹ฌ ํŒ ยท Key Tip

Use unsweetened soy milk. Sweetened soy milk turns it into a dessert. This is the only non-negotiable rule in the apartment version.

๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋ฌด๊ฐ€๋‹น ๋‘์œ ๋ฅผ ์จ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‹ฌ๋‹ฌํ•œ ๋‘์œ ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์Œ์‹์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฒ„์ „์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๊ทœ์น™์ด๋‹ค.

์™„์„ฑ๋œ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ํ•˜์–€ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ๋ฌผ, ์†Œ๋ฉด, ์˜ค์ด ์ฑ„, ํ†ต๊นจ

์™„์„ฑ ยท Finished kong-guksu โ€” cold, creamy, ready

์ฝฉ ์ œ๋ฐœ ์‚ถ์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š” โ€” ์ดˆ๊ฐ„๋‹จ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜, ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋งŒ ์‚ถ์œผ๋ฉด ๋

YouTube ยท ์ž์ทจ์ƒ ๋ฒ„์ „ ยท 5๋ถ„ ์™„์„ฑ

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๋ฐœ์Œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ยท Pronunciation Guide

"์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜" = Kong-guk-su

Kong โ€” rhymes with "song" (not "kong" as in Kong)
guk โ€” sounds like "gook" (the G is soft, like "get")
su โ€” like "sue"
Say it fast: Kong-guk-su. You've got it.

#์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ #ํ•œ๊ตญ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์Œ์‹ #KFoodStories #KoreanFood #KongGuksu #KoreanSummer #SoybeanNoodles #์ €์†๋…ธํ™”

Next Up โ†’ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์— ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ƒ‰๋ฉด โ€” ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋‚˜๊ธด ๋ฉด๋ฐœ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ๐Ÿœ

์ด ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ ยท This Series

v1 ยท ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ (Kong-guksu) โ€” ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ฝ๋Š” ์ค‘
v2 ยท ๊ฒ€์€์ฝฉ ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ (Black Soybean Kong-guksu) coming soon
v3 ยท ๋น„๊ฑด ์ฝฉ๊ตญ์ˆ˜ (Vegan Kong-guksu) coming soon
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