Where does Korean-style fried noodles originate?
Korean fried noodles originated from "fried noodles", a specialty of Shandong Province in China. As the saying goes, food moves with a certain group of people, and "jjangmyeon" came to Koreans in the mid-1880s when overseas Chinese from Shandong, China, started traveling to and from North Korea. However, it was not until more than 70 years later, in the early 1950s, that the Korean style of fried noodles was created to suit the tastes of Koreans. One wonders why it took so long for the noodles to be born. Sometimes a picture says a lot. The signboard of **** Wo Chun in Incheon Chinatown, the birthplace of Korean fried noodles, has a signboard of "Sapa Kaiseki (a meeting place where hostesses provide services)" on the right side of the signboard, which shows that during the period of the Japanese colonial rule, which is also the time when **** Wo Chun was established in Incheon Chinatown, it was the first time that **** Wo Chun was established. This shows that during the Japanese colonial period, when "**** and Chun" operated in Incheon Chinatown, the restaurant was a place for the rich to come and go, rather than a popular restaurant, because prostitutes accompanied them and they could play mahjong. Therefore, the "special dishes" on the menu of the **** Wo Chun restaurant during the Japanese colonial period did not include fried noodles, which were used by Chinese laborers to fill their stomachs.