Spicy Whelks With Noodles

Ingredients:
Whelk (sea snail), cucumber, carrot, onion, green onions, garlic, green chili pepper, red chili pepper, salt, hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, honey, sugar, sesame oil, roasted sesame seeds and noodles.

Steps (for 4 servings):

Cooking time: 30 times.

Prepare ingredients:

1. Rinse a can of whelks (golbaengi) in cold water, drain, and cut into bite sized pieces. Set aside.
   
2. Put these vegetables into a bowl mixed with 1 ts salt and set aside: slice 1 kirby cucumber into thin strips (1½  cup worth), slice ½ cup worth of carrot into thin strips, slice ½ cup worth of onion thinly.
   
   
   

Let's make sweet sour spicy sauce in a bowl:

1. Mix  ¼  cup hot pepper paste, 2 tbs hot pepper flakes, 2 tbs vinegar, 1 tbs honey, 1 ts sugar, 1 tbs sesame oil and 2 cloves minced garlic.
2. Add 1 chopped green, 1 red chili pepper, and 2 stalks of chopped green onion to the sauce. (**tips: Adjust the amount of hot pepper flakes or hot pepper paste to your taste. If you don't like spicy food, skip them both and use soy sauce.)
   
3. Boil water in a large pot for the noodles.
4. Squeeze the excess water out of the vegetables and add to the sauce in the bowl.
5. Add the whelks to the bowl and mix well with a spoon.

Cook noodles:

1. Spread out about 3 oz (84 grams) noodles in the pot of boiling water. Stir them with a spoon to prevent them from sticking together. Close the lid.
2. A few minutes later, they'll start boiling over. Open the lid and stir the noodles. Cook a few minutes more with the lid open until they are cooked well. (**tips: You can tell if they are cooked enough by taking a sample. The noodles are very hot, so add a few noodles to a small bowl filled with cold water to let them cool down before tasting. The noodles should be chewy and soft when you chew them.)
3. When the noodles are cooked, rinse them in cold water couple of times, strain them and set aside. The noodles will expand and lose their chewiness as time passes, so the last step of preparing this dish is always cooking the noodles.)
   

Let's serve~

1. Place the cooked noodles on a large plate and then ladle the spicy whelk over the noodles.
2. Sprinkle 1 tbs roasted sesame seeds on top and serve.