수타면 - Hand made noodles

Several Koreanized Chinese restaurants that serve 자장면 [jajangmyun, zazang, etc...] advertise themselves as making 수타면, or hand made noodles. After passing a place with these claims near Jongno, I had to go try for myself.

This place is legit. They have the noodle master throwing noodles in the front window for all people to see. The process consists of taking a long donut-like piece of dough and stretching it, slapping it on the table to pick up flower and while maintaining its consistency and overall noodle thickness, doing a figure-8 to essentially double the noodle count, then repeating the process over and over again to create handmade noodles, 수타면.

My overall impression of these noodles was that they are noticeably chewier than machine processed noodles. The "natural" sense of the noodles in ever so slightly differentiating thicknesses was also a pleasant textural experience, thought thicker than what I'm used to. Yum.