KIm Chee

Blarg · #1 10-17-2005, 05:05 PM

Maybe this can be like the tea connoisseur thread, but for Kim Chee.

It's fermented cabbage, with lots of garlic, the national dish of Korea. Many people not from Korea find it disgusting, and everyone finds it smelly even if they like it. This stuff can come out in your sweat and make you stink for days. The taste and smell can take getting used to.

My local grocery store got bought out and changed over to a Mexican grocery, and so almost anything but the most plain, bare bones food is gone. Other ethnic stuff, like Kim Chee, vanished, and every once in a while I get a craving that it becomes kind of a hassle to fulfill.

Does anyone know of a place you could mail order Kim Chee from, that they would personally recommend? I'm in the mood to stink up the place a little lately, and have been without my Kim Chee fix for too long.

sfer · #2 10-17-2005, 05:10 PM

Where do you live?

swede123 · #3 10-17-2005, 05:10 PM

I opened this hoping for pictures of some hot newcomer in the porn/modelling industry. I was disappointed.

Swede

astroglide · #4 10-17-2005, 05:10 PM

is it always served cold? i tried some at a restaurant and i thought it was pretty boring. spicy cold cabbage.

sfer · #5 10-17-2005, 05:12 PM

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A standard is a stew made with pieces of pork, water and kim chee. It also varies in quality from place to place, and, to be honest, jar to jar. Mom used to make tubs of it every fall.

schwza · #6 10-17-2005, 05:13 PM

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it's soooooooooooooooooooo bad. boring is way too high a compliment.

astroglide · #7 10-17-2005, 05:13 PM

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xadrez · #8 10-17-2005, 05:14 PM

Sorry to hear you cant get your fix.

I love kim chee. There is a decent place across the street from my office where I can satisfy the urge when I get it.

I found this on google

xadrez · #9 10-17-2005, 05:15 PM

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Ive had good stir fried kim chee, with pork and tofu and some vegetables or rice cakes. It was good. Then again, I love it cold, hot, in stew, whatever. Also, the spicier the better.

Popinjay · #10 10-17-2005, 05:25 PM

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It's served often cold but is found in a large variety of things. There's water kimchi, radish kimchi, spicy tofu kimchi soup (kimchi chigae), cucumber kimchi, radish kimchi... etc. etc. It also varies a LOT in terms of how it tastes based on how skillful the chef is. If you go to a really good Korean restaurant (well reviewed in the area) you'll probably think it's good stuff. But who knows some people just don't like it.

It's hard to find good kimchi at stores IMO. Especially Costco, never buy kimchi from there. It's horrible. My recommendation is to find a traditional Korean grandmother. Most of them in my experience are very good at making kimchi, and they often do it in very large amounts.