Do you like Kimchi?
Aug 28, 2025 | 10:53 am
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I like it. I purchase it at the grocery store. I dont think Ive had it at a restaurant, so I may not have had the real deal. Id love to get a taste of homemade.
Aug 28, 2025 | 11:53 am
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I like kimchi like I like mustard, or beans. It all depends on the style. I grew up hating mustard, and canned baked beans and thought I didn't like mustard or beans. Same with kimchi (although I've never gone out of my way to eat it).
Aug 28, 2025 | 12:38 pm
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A little different than sauerkraut for me -- haven't had one I don't like, but there's a wide range, and some are signficantly better than others. Some of the Baltic/E. European styles are excellent.
Aug 28, 2025 | 1:54 pm
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Made fresh at restaurants, I love every type I've tried. (None pushed aside 
) Never yet found any in a jar that I liked.
We bought a crock a few years back and made a batch. It would have been really good except it was too salty. I need to try again now that life has finally given me a bit of free time.
) Never yet found any in a jar that I liked.We bought a crock a few years back and made a batch. It would have been really good except it was too salty. I need to try again now that life has finally given me a bit of free time.
Aug 28, 2025 | 2:05 pm
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Made fresh at restaurants, I love every type I've tried. (None pushed aside ) Never yet found any in a jar that I liked.
We bought a crock a few years back and made a batch. It would have been really good except it was too salty. I need to try again now that life has finally given me a bit of free time.
) Never yet found any in a jar that I liked.We bought a crock a few years back and made a batch. It would have been really good except it was too salty. I need to try again now that life has finally given me a bit of free time.
- I did like the stuff that came in a jar that my friend made - and put it in a jar. And brought it to my house!
Aug 28, 2025 | 6:49 pm
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I don't think I like it? I tried to bring a vacuum-packed, freshly prepared kimchi that I made myself in Seoul (in a korean cooking class) onto the plane in my carry-on luggage. The Seoul airport security made me pitch it!
So I will never know... It seemed really healthy though so I wish I could learn to like it!
So I will never know... It seemed really healthy though so I wish I could learn to like it!
Aug 28, 2025 | 10:21 pm
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Aug 29, 2025 | 8:49 am
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I love Kimchi. I love spice. I love sour.
Indian restaurants have a good spicy pickled vegetable dish as well.
I am sure theres a USA version. We humans love our spicy sour delights :-)
Indian restaurants have a good spicy pickled vegetable dish as well.
I am sure theres a USA version. We humans love our spicy sour delights :-)
Aug 29, 2025 | 9:59 am
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Aug 29, 2025 | 12:25 pm
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We have his and hers jars of kimchi in the house at all timeshe prefers cabbage, I prefer radish. We occasionally splurge and go to a kimchi store in NJ run by an auntie who speaks Korean at us (we just smile and nod, I assume shes telling us why the container she chose is better than the one we originally picked out).
Sep 5, 2025 | 9:43 pm
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We have his and hers jars of kimchi in the house at all timeshe prefers cabbage, I prefer radish. We occasionally splurge and go to a kimchi store in NJ run by an auntie who speaks Korean at us (we just smile and nod, I assume shes telling us why the container she chose is better than the one we originally picked out).