Daejeon udon shop: peanut sauce himokawa udon at Jemyeonsoui Haru

Jemyeonsoui Haru Dunsan branch: hours and parking

Jemyeonsoui Haru Dunsan Directly Operated Branch (제면소의하루 둔산직영점) is open from 11:00 to 20:30, with a break time from 14:00 to 16:00. There is no parking, so we used roadside parking and a nearby paid lot.

Jemyeonsoui Haru is a Dunsan-dong spot serving really good noodle dishes. I especially wanted to try the himokawa udon that's so hot on social media, and I can see why people seek it out 👍🏻

How long is the weekday lunch wait at Jemyeonsoui Haru in Dunsan-dong?

"Jemyeonsoui Haru makes its udon with noodles made in-house every day."

Jemyeonsoui Haru has a Blue Ribbon as a Dunsan-dong favorite, so it's an udon shop that diners have vouched for. We visited at weekday lunchtime, so seats filled up fast and people were waiting.

This is the interior when there were no customers. There are seats for solo diners plus tables for 4 and for 2. The tables aren't plentiful, but turnover is fast, so a short wait seems to get you in quickly.

Jemyeonsoui Haru menu: solo sets, hot udon and cold udon

Plenty of customers come alone, so there are set meals for one, and the menu is split into two categories!

• Hot udon (warm)
• Cold udon (chilled)

True to a Dunsan-dong lunch favorite, once lunchtime hit, lots of office workers came in for udon.

The daily-limited himokawa udon is Jemyeonsoui Haru's signature. The texture of the 1mm-thin udon noodles is really unusual, and you can feel the delicacy in this signature dish.

Every table has pickled radish and pickled chili peppers, so just take as much as you want.

What we ordered: mostly cold udon

Here's what we ordered at Jemyeonsoui Haru. Of course we couldn't skip the signature!!! We can have hot udon any time, so we decided to focus on the cold udon.

• Himokawa udon
• Ebiten bukkake udon (shrimp tempura udon in concentrated broth)
• 2 handmade shrimp tempura

Ebiten bukkake udon: thick noodles as chewy as rice cake

The chewy thick noodles in the ebiten bukkake udon were really good~ Maybe it's because they're made in-house, but noodles made by a noodle master had a bouncy chew close to tteok (rice cake).

Does ebiten bukkake udon come with shrimp tempura?

The ebiten bukkake udon comes with 2 pieces of shrimp tempura. I didn't know that and ordered 2 more handmade shrimp tempura. Even better, lucky me! Bite into the crispy batter and plump shrimp and the fragrant shrimp aroma and crunch were just perfect. If you order a dish without shrimp tempura, I recommend it as a side.

How to eat 1mm himokawa udon, and which sauces to dip in

The himokawa udon was the dish I was most looking forward to, and it's so thin that I was really curious. 1mm cold udon‼️‼️ A staff member briefly explained how to eat it, and I also chose the free extra noodles when ordering, so we got more udon noodles.

Whoa... a whole new world of udon 😋 Because it's so thin, the more you chew the more you feel a gum-like chew right in your mouth, and the charm is that the flavor changes depending on which sauce you dip it in. Since the noodles are thin, water comes along to sprinkle on them when they dry out, and you dunk the thin noodles deep into the sauces, which are a peanut sauce and Jemyeonsoui Haru's special sauce.

They're really thin, so you have to separate them carefully haha. The himokawa udon lets you dip cold noodles in different sauces, and with each new sauce combination you never get tired of it.

Peanut sauce for himokawa udon: flavor and portion

The peanut sauce for the himokawa udon felt thicker, mild and nutty. It was so good that I kept switching sauces, and the portion was bigger than I expected, so it was filling?!

Cold udon lunch at Jemyeonsoui Haru: final verdict

Stepping into the new world of cold udon rather than the usual hot udon, the himokawa udon and ebiten bukkake udon we ordered were a big win 👍🏻 There's a reason it's famous as a Dunsan-dong lunch favorite~~ Jemyeonsoui Haru, even a Blue Ribbon winner, truly satisfied me.