a new keto solution?

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.

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.

gussied up

here's what my brand of seaweed noods looks like, plus sauce

carbs are the second item from the left, top row; zero sugar, 0.1 g of fat per 180 g