Made of grains such as wheat, rice, or potato, guksu noodles were traditionally saved for special occasions or at the reception of a special guest.
These Five Colored Noodles are special for many reasons. Instead of adding chemical colors for quick and mass production, guksu masters at Grand Noodle grind chives, sweet pumpkin, rice, beet, and black rice to create colors that represent Wu Xing, or Five Elements of blue, yellow, white, red, and black. Mixing those natural, nutritious ingredients with wheat noodle is still performed by hand.
The best way to savor Five Colored Noodles’s unique taste is just mix the cooked noodles with nothing but perilla oil and clean sea salt as the ingredients used in Five Colored Noodles carry their own respective flavors.