
- Canned chestnuts
- Scientific name: Castanea
- Classified under: Seeds & Nuts & Dried Fruit
- Korean name: 밤통조림
- Romanized: Bamtongjorim
- Other Korean name(s): 밤 (bam)
- Wikipedia entry for canned chestnuts
My cookbooks
Which to get? Both are best sellers. Choose Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking for recipes and instructions for making essential pastes and sauces, or Maangchi’s Big Book of Korean Cooking for more recipes, photos, and variety.




Are these water chestnuts or the regular kind?
You can skip it if it’s not available. Or you could use peeled fresh chestnuts. This is a list of Korean grocery stores in Virginia.https://www.maangchi.com/shopping/us#VA
Maangchi, do you have any recommendations on a substitute for canned chestnuts? Or would you recommend just leaving them out of the recipe? I’ve looked in several good Asian markets close to where I live and can’t find it anywhere. I’m sure it would still be good without the chestnuts, but wanted to see if you had any ideas on a substitute before I tried out the recipe.