Jecheon Chinese restaurant for spicy jjamppong: Nangman Jjajang

Nangman Jjajang before a Uirimji outing

Before heading out to Uirimji in Jecheon, we stopped at Nangman Jjajang, a well-known local restaurant in Jecheon, to fill up properly.

Nangman Jjajang, a restaurant near Jecheon's Uirimji

It is close to Uirimji, so it was a great place to stop before our outing.

It is open year-round, but it closes on the evening of the last Friday each month for a jjajangmyeon volunteer-service schedule, so keep that in mind when visiting.

How is it for groups and meals with children?

The dining room is clean and has plenty of tables, so groups can dine here too.

High chairs and aprons are available by the entrance. Nangman Jjajang has even been visited by the filming crew from 2 Days & 1 Night!

The self-service station has tableware and side dishes ready for you.

Steamed rice is complimentary!! Seaweed for children is complimentary too! You can also get jjamppong broth and jjajang sauce to go.

For a Chinese restaurant self-service station, the owner's thoughtful touches are no joke, haha. It was fun reading through the side dishes one by one! There is such a variety: onion, pickled green chili peppers, danmuji (yellow pickled radish), house-made pickles, and Korean kimchi.

Nangman Jjajang menu and our order

The menu is varied too.

• Garlic beef-tenderloin tangsuyuk, cream beef-tenderloin tangsuyuk, Jecheon tangsuyuk (spicy)
• Nangman geu japchae, fried dumplings, cream fried dumplings
• Jjajangmyeon, chili jjajang, mild ganjjajang, tray jjajang
• Jjamppong, cold jjamppong, jjamppong rice, jjajang rice, fried rice
• Family set (4 people): small garlic beef-tenderloin tangsuyuk + Nangman geu japchae + tray jjajang + fried rice + 4 cream fried dumplings

What we ordered: tray jjajang, jjajangmyeon, jjamppong, fried dumplings, and cream tangsuyuk

Our food arrived!!

Tray jjajang with a perilla-leaf aroma

Tray jjajang for two: ₩25,000.

The tray jjajang came topped generously with perilla leaves! I think the leaves made it even better with their wonderful fragrance.

The noodles were chewy, and the spicy seasoning had soaked in well, making it perfect for adult palates.

Fried dumplings and cream tangsuyuk together

Fried dumplings: ₩6,000. Crispy outside and moist inside, they were an unbeatable side dish. The kids ate them well too!

Cream tangsuyuk: ₩25,000. Since we had children with us, we ordered the sauce separately, but they ate it so well that ordering it sauce-poured-on would have been fine too.

Nangman Jjajang uses beef tenderloin for its tangsuyuk, which may be why the meat was so tender. The cream sauce is topped with onion, corn, peas, and bell pepper. The cream sauce is really delicious!!

The tender cream sauce and onions over the tangsuyuk were exactly my kind of thing.

Dipping the dumplings in the cream tangsuyuk sauce was delicious too!!

Spicy jjamppong and jjajangmyeon the kids loved

Jjamppong: ₩12,000.

It was packed with crisp mung bean sprouts, mushrooms, and fresh seafood, making the broth rich and pleasantly spicy! The broth was deeply flavorful!

Jjajangmyeon: ₩9,000.

The jjajangmyeon, faithful to the basics, was so good that the kids devoured it!

Because it is right near Uirimji, it fit perfectly into our outing route, and we joined the receipt-review event and finished with a refreshing cider.