/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Another favourite is Kimchi fried rice.

Take yesterdays rice, mix in Kimchi, and drop and egg on top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGxkvyOAls

Kimchi Fries - Burger approved Korean food.

>supper
Die.

That said, what's your favourite brand?

>>10386385

Where I live there is a local Korean Market, and the family that owns it makes the Kimchi in house. Literally can watch the parents making it in the back while the kids mind the store.

>>10386143
What does kimchi taste like?

>>10386443
pickeld cabbage

>>10386443
Depends on the kimchi and on how old it is.

>>10386385
This.

Also holding out for good brands, preferably orderable online cuz i had to move to the middle of nowhere for work.

>>10386422
what is this? what is kimchi?

>>10386464
It's super-easy to make dude.

>>10386450
This. It can either be delicious and essentially pickled cabbage, or it can be some weird gangbang of spices and taste like it's been rotting for 4 years before consumption.
>>10386464
Avoid King's like the fucking plague. Either make it yourself or just be cautious.

>>10386464

>ordering kimchi online

Do people actually do this?

>>10386488

I don't know of any good brands in North America. They are either bland or weird fusions that non Koreans make up.

The only good Kimchi I've had was either imported from Korea or made by a family owned Korean store.

>>10386539

>either imported from Korea or made by a family owned Korean store

Yeah, but when you go to the store to buy imported kimchi it usually has a date on it so you know how fresh it is, and store made is typically always pretty much fresh. When you order online who knows what you're going to get, or what kind of conditions is went through in the shipping process. I usually buy mine from a family owned restaurant I go to probably every month or two.

>>10386565

https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Original-Tasteful-Stir-Fry-Preservatives/dp/B0764N3PRJ/ref=sr_1_6_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1522622107&sr=1-6&keywords=kimchi&th=1

Store made can be fresh but the difference is the bad ones are just brined cabbage with red pepper spice added in, while the real family made kind will have soy sauce, fish sauce and other fermented ingredients added to whatever vegetables are fermenting.

But if you can't get a good family made version, apparently you can order Kimchi from Amazon for example. I would think it would be at the right temp when shipped over the ocean and while at amazon, its the last bit of shipping to your house that could get sketchy.

>>10386642

>the bad ones are just brined cabbage with red pepper spice added in

I've never encountered anything sold as kimchi that was that basic.

>>10386443
Pretty much sauerkraut with chilli powder, fish sauce and extra veg.

>>10386823

https://www.zehrs.ca/Food/Natural-%26-Organic/Drinks/Juice/Wildbrine-Kimchi-Korean/p/20944605_EA

INGREDIENTS
NAPA CABBAGE, SEA VEGETABLE, CHILI PEPPER, GREEN ONIONS, WATER, SEA SALT, SESAME SEEDS, GARLIC, GINGER.

Mostly its the non korean Kimchi I see that are like this. They want to be able to sell to Vegans and so they skip out things like fish sauce, shrimp paste etc. In fact they do this to all sorts of ethnic food. Its like the goal is to make inoffensive versions of ethnic food - which ends up having no taste at all.

https://youtu.be/sUwy71ddj1M?t=1m57s

Even this white guy understands that real Kimchi has many types of fermented ingredients.

>>10386422
>a local Korean Market, and the family that owns it makes the Kimchi in house.
This is how I get my kimchi as well. But they don't produce that much and it is a little on the expensive side, so I also buy a big jar of locally made kimchi.
I use the handmade stuff for having a bit of kimchi on the side since you can really let it shine in that role, and use the jarred stuff for things like kimchi fried rice or kimchi jjigae (or as a side when the good stuff runs out).

>>10386914
I made the mistake of buying that crap in the image once. It was awful.

>>10386443

Spiced pickled cabbage. It does NOT go with everything

>>10386914

Why do you blame white people as a whole when it's obviously about marketing them to hipster millenials from the big city who want to follow food trends they see on instagram? Rednecks and townies use the same types of ingredients city people wouldnt want to touch with a 10ft pole. Only difference is that those people are locals cooking local foods so hipsters feel culturally vindicated for when they lazily attempt to embrace what is ultimately the ethnic equivalent

>>10386956

Korean fusion is super popular now - people are adding Kimchi to everything.

>It does NOT go with everything
It goes with a few things you wouldn't expect. Had dinner at my friends' place, she made hamburgs stuffed with kimchi and cheddar cheese, they were surprisingly ok.

>>10386914

Eh, if I've seen that I probably immediately looked past it and it's $10 price tag for a tiny glass jar for the big plastic tub a row over.

>>10386956

Are you the anon who spazzed out a few nights ago when I added kimchi to a bowl of rice with a fried egg?

>>10386443
Pickled cabbage. When I first tried it, I didn't like it, but I fell in love with it on my second time.

>>10386984
>it's $10 price tag for a tiny glass jar for the big plastic tub a row over.
$10 for that is robbery. A big jar is 4x as much and $10 at my local Korean market. They have a jar even bigger than that, but I don't think it would fit in my fridge.

>>10386981

People also put ketchup on everything. Most people have trash taste and just follow trends.

>>10386980

What the hell are you talking about.

I posted two different images of products from Loblaws - one of largest grocery chains in Canada. Its factory food. Nothing about that is 'made by locals'.

I will agree though that its aimed at hipster millenials that are graduating from Mac and Cheese and want to be foodies, but are to afraid to go to a real Asian grocery store, so they buy the Presidents choice brand versions instead - which are garbage. That plus if your going to be Vegan you can basically forget most real Asian food. Yes parts of Asia are Buddhist, but most parts are not and so meat/fish is mixed in with everything.

>>10387037

You completely misunderstood the point of my post being that it is made for city kids who want to follow the asian food trend.

>>10387037
That image is fucking garbage.

>>10387030

I don't really know how much that little jar costs. That's just typical for shit like that catered to special needs kids with trust funds.

>>10387051

That image is a physical example of terrible hipster food trends. Literal definition of the term cultural appropriation which is ironic because the people following these trends invented the term

>>10387037
>even the drawing is a filthy hipster

>>10387037

I like how they threw in the fucking potato salad alongside the mix of tryhard and halfassed asian foods

>>10386992
>added kimchi to a bowl of rice with a fried egg?
I've had that for lunch uncountable times.

>>10387060

Yes thats exactly why I picked the image because I think we are on the same page as to the who is buying this terrible false kimchi.

>>10387070

I'll say this. I grew up watching family run ethnic restaurants struggle, and now hipsters fill these places. So as much as I cringe at the fact that these kids are more eating the food as a statement, they do keep these places in business which means I still get to enjoy them.

I also get a good laugh when they ask questions about whether the Kimchi is cruelty free.

>>10387136
>they do keep these places in business which means I still get to enjoy them.
Yeah, it is a bit of a double edged sword. Those hipster flocks seem like they can move on to the next big thing at any moment, but for now they are keeping a few places open that probably would have shuttered. And as much as it might pain some there are a few cool places (fusion or not) that have opened because of the hipsters that I hope will survive after they are gone.

>>10387037
That is some weakass banchan
>if your going to be Vegan you can basically forget most real Asian food
I lol hard at stories of vegans and vegetarians traveling to Asia and expecting a paradise. Almost everything has animals in it, even dishes sold as vegetarian. About the only exceptions would be food specifically for religious groups, and more western-oriented places

>>10387559

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLOYN0qZeIk

In defence of these vegans. I can sorta understand the ignorance. If all you have learned of Asia is Panda express, shit at the grocery store like my image, and what you learned in your Yoga class your going to be horrified when you get off the plane and start wandering around and seeing Street food in these south Asian countries for the first time.

Oh and let me rant about my image for a sec. WTF - napa cabbage, shit that I think is trying to be thai for salad toppings, and I'm going to say japanese sesame salad dressing. NONE of that goes together. Thats at least three different countries you've ripped off and made something none of them eat.

>>10386385
This particular brand is the one my local international market sells and it's probably the one I'd recommend to any first time taster. Maybe a little bit on the spicier side but it makes you want to eat more.

No thank you.

Korean propaganda thread.

>>10389125
come home white man

>>10389131
>roasties
the girl in the OP is a total whore, though. In half her videos she rants about all the cock she takes.

>>10389131

I studied in France for a year and all the Korean girls were only interested in going to the dance clubs with the Arab chads. The saddest part was that they were both fashionable in their own way, but basically a copy of how Americans dressed a decade earlier.

Korean food is the most overrated shit ever, also Korean women are ugly as fuck.

>>10389260

What Koreaboo sites do you go to? Based on /ck/ and actual experience living in a place with a Korean area and a bunch of restaurants, Korean food is rated pretty accurately. Nobody says it's anything amazing, and everyone here says it's just a bunch of spicy, pickled, and fermented shit, which is pretty accurate. It's still good for what it is, but it definitely isn't overrated.