We were dining at Bonchon restaurant and my cousin was quite excited about this experience because it was her first time. As always, she took her sweet time ordering something to eat and I gave her that moment. She always has this appetite and asks so many questions before settling with what she thinks might satisfy her cravings.
We were already starting to eat and she kept glancing at a poster in a glass wall near our table. She repeatedly stated that the food looked good. Well, I cannot blame her because she is always adventurous when it comes to food and she loves Asian food. And after a couple of minutes, she finally ordered the thing.
Chapchae, as they call it, is made from glass noodles. It was my first time to see a glass noodle that thick because I happened to use only a Chinese vermicelli which is thinner compared with it. Anyway, we were anticipating that order since we were already about to finish our food. And right before our last bite, the order came.
I was not surprised at all about the appearance of chapchae because I use to prepare something similar at home. Aside from the long strands of glass noodles, the other ingredients were somewhat too few and too small. The very obvious one was the scrambled fried egg which was too small and hardly recognizable. The other one were bits of chicken meat which were too small, likewise. The rest of its ingredients are literally unknown to me and I did not ask about those things because they might be company secrets. But what wowed me about chapchae is its odor. The odor of the food is really very good. I was trying to figure out the scent and may be they include an oyster sauce (which happened to be my favorite) in its preparation. My cousin laughingly scolded me about smelling the food for sometime because I might be sending a wrong signal inside the restaurant. But I said to her that I just could not help myself appreciating a good smelling food like that one.
And its taste? I hardly finished a portion of that serving because I easily got satiated because it tastes sweet. I was actually anticipating that it may taste spicy because it is an Asian food but I was wrong. It was sweet and I usually don't appreciate a sweet dish like that one.
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