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?

Blarg · #3 10-17-2005, 05:33 PM

In Los Angeles.

sfer · #4 10-17-2005, 05:40 PM

Any particular reason you don't just drive to K-town?

Blarg · #5 10-17-2005, 05:46 PM

I live in the Valley, and it would easily take three hours between street traffic and freeway traffic just to get to the northern part of it. Plus, Koreatown in L.A. has surprisingly few Koreans in it. It's mostly Latinos now, even some Filipinos. But the Korean businesses are sparse, and I can't remember a Korean grocery there.

shant · #6 10-17-2005, 06:01 PM

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I live in the Valley, and it would easily take three hours between street traffic and freeway traffic just to get to the northern part of it. Plus, Koreatown in L.A. has surprisingly few Koreans in it. It's mostly Latinos now, even some Filipinos. But the Korean businesses are sparse, and I can't remember a Korean grocery there.

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Are you sure you were in Koreatown?

Also, Kim Chee is rad. I also like Kim Bap(sp?).

john smith · #7 10-17-2005, 07:42 PM

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I live in the Valley, and it would easily take three hours between street traffic and freeway traffic just to get to the northern part of it. Plus, Koreatown in L.A. has surprisingly few Koreans in it. It's mostly Latinos now, even some Filipinos. But the Korean businesses are sparse, and I can't remember a Korean grocery there.

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There's a Korean market on the corner of Sherman Way and White Oak.

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Dynasty · #9 10-17-2005, 06:31 PM

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Benal · #10 10-17-2005, 06:57 PM

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LOL, same here.