When Seoul swelters, these six cold soups and noodle dishes deliver the city’s most refreshing answer to summer. Our mapped-out guide leads to the restaurants serving them at their best.

Learn how to make kong-guksu, Korea’s classic cold soybean noodle dish. This easy summer recipe pairs wheat noodles with a rich, chilled soybean broth.

From naengmyeon and kong-guksu to chilled chicken broth and buckwheat jelly, these are the cold noodles and soups that define summer in Seoul.