"What is Chinese-Korean cuisine? For an armchair introduction, click here. For a hands-on, face-in introduction, hit up this neighbor to Seoul (see below), where the richly earthy jajangmyeon (noodles in porky black-bean sauce) has a veritable cult following and the jjambong deserves one, especially among hotheads, who will happily swear the shellfish-noodle soup must have been ladled from a cauldron of hellfire." - Ruth Tobias