Anyone have a good tip on where to buy some homemade or small batch kimchi in NYC? My wife always come back from the market on 32nd street with a commercialized version, that seems loaded with MSG. Looking for something a little fresher.

BTW- I love kimchi!

Kimchi Bokumbop (Fried Rice) 김치볶음밥

I finally got around to making this tonight. Fantastic!

I like fresh kimchi (not yet fermented) Anyone knows where I can get these instead of the store brand that seems already spoiled in Portland, OR?

Ask Korean grocer for fresh made jar.

Does H-Mart carry that too? they're the only Korean grocer I know in the vicinity..

I like Chong Hap Market in Jackson Heights- near all the Indian restaurants

72-11 Broadway
Jackson Heights, NY 11372

They have fresh Kimchi trays there. I also like there Korean style chicken wings which they sell prepackaged and fresh to go.

Flushing also has a bunch of supermarkets on Northern Boulevard which I'm sure are better than the market on 32nd Street.

New Jersey just outside NYC also has a pretty massive supermarket with a nice Kimchi selection called Han ah Reum at 321 Broad Ave Ridgefield, NJ 07657

Hmart definately will have fresh kimchi of all kinds.

I havent bought kimchi from that grocery store in a while, so I cant speak to the MSG issue. However if your wife is in that area, another option on the same block may be KumGangSan.... its a restaurant on the same blk, same side of the street, just closer to broadway... i believe they sell their kimchi downstairs. dont know if its small batch, etc, but if youre looking to try a different variety she can start there.

so my favorites are:
-mul kimchi
-'regular' cabbage kimchi
-old kimchi--- the type where you feel the bubbles of the fermentation on your tongue
- uber old kimchi--- which i only had with the uber old fermented in fish in choengju, i think... ill have to look back & make sure i have the city right
-kimchi'd genip (sesame/perilla) leaves-yum

also:
-putting the kimchi on the barbeque w/ or after the meat
- or! over steam w/ pork & tofu

Hmm I've had it with the bubbles before and that was a nice twist ^

Hate kimchi. Grew up in an Asian community, spent several years living in Korea, and still hate the stuff. Sushi, too, but I guess that's a different thread.

I like most pickled foods, just not cabbage.

I prefer radish (turnip?) to cabbage - the latter's sogginess is a mild turnoff.

How about pickled fish?

Depends on what you mean by "pickled"....

Much as I like Nuoc Mam, there are those moments when I recall that its smell can top that of burning napalm in the morning (to lift a line from an old movie). Certainly, a crock of homemade "Fish Sauce" (a "pickled fish" in generous interpretation) is not every one's cup of tea and provides an enveloping aroma, to some a miasma, matching in strength a Texas expression, "A pen full of wet goats in August".

Yes, this is excellent. Let the kimchi soak up the bbq juices and then have it with rice. A perfect ending to a Korean BBQ dinner.

sticky rice or uncle ben's?