Do you eat Kimchi

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What do you eat it with?
i tried it on the side but it blew my mouth off
apparently as a pancake is good but that is a big effort for me

I have only tried the Vadasz stuff so I doubt it’s authentic but it is really nice. I eat it with cold meats, cheese and crusty bread and butter, I mix a big spoonful in whatever ramen I’m eating along with a boiled egg and it was delicious with a chicken kebab.

I made some more today and I’ve kept a bit out and put most of it in the fridge to ferment more slowly. I read something recently that says trust it goes through a ‘crazy’ stage early on where it’s not very nice - a bit fizzy maybe- and then mellows out again. I use maanghi’s ‘easy’ version and I use vegan fish sauce and soy sauce instead of fish sauce. I am VERY EXCITED.

we don't eat ours until it's a week old, although it's ok in pancakes before then if you're desperate.

I usually leave it out on the countertop in a sealed box for 2-3 days, until you see the bubbles forming, then stir it and put it in our kimchi and beer fridge. We'll be making more this weekend because we've been eating a lot of kimchi pancakes for some reason (well, you don't need a reason, they're just so darned tasty)

I've made more. Using sweetheart cabbage as chinese leaves are rare at this time of year. Smells quite funky already, that'll be the powdered shrimp

we make Maangchi's vegan version. We can get chinese cabbage here, nice big fat ones. I like realatively young kimchi - but the oldest tastes best

I mix it with hummus (50/50) and either eat it like that or pretend it's ketchup and have it as a sort of lumpy sauce.

Sounds weird but I love it.

Koreans all cringing at the combinations 😂kimchi with cheese???houmous???bread in a sandwich???????

Laugh all you like but I've always thought it's a travesty that Korea & the Middle East are so far away from each other so kimchi-hummus never took off!

If you try it, you'll love it. I can guarantee it.

Koreans are quite happy to mix up all kinds of abominable combos themselves.

Japanese food is often about the purity of practice. Korean food is quite often about whacking cheese and hotdogs in weird places. 🤣

Kimchi with cheese is a very common thing in Korean cuisine.

And not nice, artisanal cheese either. Some sort of American influenced cheese that comes in a square block.

Kimchi humous sounds great. I can’t see why the Koreans would object to that in the least.

Also kimchi with baba ganoush would be delicious.

Here’s maangchi’s recipe for a kimchi toastie: www.maangchi.com/recipe/kimchi-grilled-cheese

@hryllilegur is there such a thing as mansplaining but for cultures? Because you've done a spectacular job at it

tbh, people insisting that a foodstuff must be consumed reverently in particular ways deserve such explaining.

Koreans all cringing at the combinations 😂kimchi with cheese?

they're more likely to be thinking "wow, hummus? so trying that next time"

First time i went to Korea i was doing a 2 week induction - only non Korean on the course, and we also did a lot of sight seeing. And while I'm fine with chopsticks (although their thin metal ones gave me "chopstic finger") and i love Korean food so it was like a 2 week food festival for me, the chap in charge kept apologising to me about the lack of western food. And no matter how many times i said "no, i love it" he apologised several times a day.

So one trip we were out all day and on the way back he announced "especially for Brefugee we're going for pizza" but we were late and the only thing left was kimchi pizza. Which was vile, but they all scarfed it down. I really can't handle kimchi and cheese.
but i am so going to try kimchi and hummus. yum

@Brefugee another one 'mansplaining but for cultures'. We really need a word for this. 🫤

@hryllilegur wow. You do Korean-ness so much better than I do. Apparently.

Oh hooray. There is a word. Culturesplaining.

@Brefugee another one 'mansplaining but for cultures'. We really need a word for this.

wtf? i'm not culturesplaining - don't be daft. I am recounting an anecdote about the Koreans i know. And i worked at a korean company for 20 years and have a LOT of Korean friends. The comment i made describes literally 100% of them.

Yep, I just pop it on the side of any Asian dish & mix it in with rice.

@journeyofinsanity go and tell maangchi all abut how she's mixing cultures. Do it.
She'll giggle at you while eating her grilled cheese kimchi toastie
(are you Korean? are you denying that they have adopted things like ketchup with absolute abandon?)

It's healthy in some ways but also (when consumed regularly) a risk factor for stomach cancer, so FGS don't force it down for health reasons if you don't like the stuff (disclaimer: I love it and eat it, loads of foods cause cancer, everything in moderation etc, but it's not something you should go out of your way to eat if you don't want to)

You really don't understand culturesplaing at all do you. I know black people. lots of black people. I am not going to start lecturing them on what black people do. Most men know lots of women. Lived with them. Loved them. Worked with them. Some men mansplain to women. Knowing women doesn't mean they aren't mansplaining.
You need to learn some cultural humility

Interesting article about kimchi and possible cancer connections
www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-magazine/issues/2017/april/columns/food-medicine-and-health-link-between-gastric-cancer-kimchi-consumption

I never claimed as such. 🙄