For a taste of Korean cuisine in Saudi Arabia, the Suramyun restaurant in Jeddah offers an array of dishes.
The noodle and dumpling house’s street food and fine-dining options use vegetables, seafood, legumes, and spicy chilies to help serve up an authentic eating experience.
Suramyun, which translates in Korean to ‘the best noodles,’ specializes in offering 100 percent handmade noodles and dumplings carefully crafted by professional Korean chefs who can be seen at work through the kitchen’s glass wall.
Calming interiors, comfortable table seating, and attentive staff provide a bonus to the visually appealing food.
The menu includes flavorsome dishes such as spicy bulgogi ramyeon, a noodle soup with a combination of seafood broth and barbequed beef, and modeum jjin mandu, three dumplings served with fillings including chopped shrimp, vegetables, beef, cabbage, and kimchi.
The tteokbokki hot pot is made in a large pan containing a small amount of rice cake, along with chewy noodles, vegetables, boiled eggs, and fish cake, and cooked in a special Korean red pepper paste with soy sauce that is fermented for 10 days. It is served with raw ingredients that are cooked on a medium heat at the table, with diners invited to help stir the mix.
Modum tigwim, a tempura-like fried seafood, goes well as a side with tteokbokki.
A meal can be rounded off with traditional Korean bingsu, a milk-based shaved ice dessert with fruits, sweet red beans, and cornflakes.
For more information go to Instagram @suramyun_ksa.
