Kimchi festival to spice up Seoul

The Korea Times ^ | October 30, 2018 | Kim Rahn

[2ndDivisionVet]

An acquired taste.

[hanamizu]

An acquired taste.

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Yes, but one that I (but not my wife) acquired several years ago. I find myself snacking on it.

[ebshumidors]

I have a taste for it.

[outofsalt]

This story gives me the vapors (just from the wrong end of my alimentary canal;)

[kaehurowing]

LOL. We were there. Beautiful weather in Seoul the past week and a half, although the “fine dust” was coming in from China when we left. Just got back home today.

[real saxophonist]

I buy jars of kimchi from a local Asian grocery. Last time, he didn’t have jars, but gallon buckets. I bought one, it lasted about three weeks.

[kaehurowing]

Kimchi actually goes great on hamburgers and hot dogs. Try it some time.

[texas booster]

http://www.wikim.re.kr/index.es?sid=a2

Yes, there really is a World Institute of Kimchi.

World Institute of Kimchi
86, Kimchi-ro, Nam-gu,
Gwangju, 61755, Republic of Korea

TEL. 82.62.610.1700

In case anyone was planning on traveling there.

[hanamizu]

I bet it would. I like kraut on hot dogs and kimchi is kraut with an attitude. I add it to spicy ramen soup for lunch. It hurts so good.

[kaehurowing]

They actually had a big statue of a kimchi cabbage erected on Seoul Plaza, on the side near Deoksugung Palace. Everyone was posing for photo ops in front of it.

[jdsteel]

I love good Kimchee. I just wouldn’t want to visit a public restroom a day after the festival!

[TaMoDee]

You say: “I have a taste for it.” AND I assume a breath from it!

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’ve never tasted it. Isn’t it basically hot spiced sauerkraut?

I’m here to learn.

[ebshumidors]

Yeah, so?

[kaehurowing]

That, and garlic and fish sauce are part of it also. There are actually all sorts of kimchi (cabbage, cucumber, radish/daikon, etc.), and everyone seems to make it a little differently. There is even a non-spicy kimchi called “mul kimchi” (water kimchi).

[Jumper]

My wife had always said, before the 11 kimchi-less months during two years in Georgetown Guyana, that she would die.... She now says she is different from other Koreans since her ordeal.

[TaMoDee]

My comment was meant to be humorous. I spent 28 months in Korea -—— dodging Kimchi breath!
I currently have a Korean Dentist —— WE laughed when I asked him if he eat kimchi prior to seeing patients!

[BunnySlippers]

I wanna go, I wanna go!!!!
[They have them here in LA too]

[hanamizu]

I’ve never tasted it. Isn’t it basically hot spiced sauerkraut?

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That’s one way to think of it, though the kimchi isn’t shaded like sauerkraut. I’ve never really taken to radish kimchi, I’ve stuck with the cabbage. If you can find an Asian food store buy a smaller jar and give it a try. It’s almost alive! When you open a new bottle it kind of bubbles up. If you like kraut and you like spicy food, I think you’ll like kimchi—although as some say, it tends to be an acquired taste. My wife will eat some, but not devour it like I do. One jar I got called it ‘refreshing’.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Imagine getting on a bus in the morning where all 60 passengers, the ticket girl and the driver had kimchi for breakfast.