My American coworker alerted me to the existence of miyeok-myeon/미역면, also called miyeok-guksu/미역국수. These are essentially green noodles, very like cellophane noodles in consistency, made mostly out of seaweed. A 180-gram package of noodles (300 grams if you include the liquid they're packed in) has 3.2 grams of carbs, which qualifies it for keto use. Assuming a light-keto budget of 50 g of carbs per day, that's only 6.4% of my budget. There's a package of hot sauce that comes with the noodles, and I'm pretty sure that that more than doubles the amount of carbs, but at one meal a day, that's still not tragic. Curious, I ordered the noodles through Coupang and tried them. They're not bad, and they can be made to work with a variety of Korean noodle dishes, especially naengmyeon/냉면 (cold noodles) or bibim-naengmyeon/비빔 냉면 (spicy cold noodles).
Here's what I made today, followed by pics of the noodle/sauce packs and the nutrition label. The Korean word for carbs is 탄수화물, or tansuhwamul.
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| I found myself jonesing for jjol-myeon with sea snails, so I bought a can of golbaengi (sea snails). Those cans are expensive. The overall effect was good, but real jjol-myeon are super chewy, and these noodles are not. |
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| gussied up |
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| here's what my brand of seaweed noods looks like, plus sauce |
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| carbs are the second item from the left, top row; zero sugar, 0.1 g of fat per 180 g |
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