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10971198 No.10971198 [Reply] [Original]

Why the fuck do Koreans eat this shit alone as a side dish? I'm pretty open-minded with food and was raised in a family that at a lot of different stuff and yet every time I've tried Kimchi straight, it has a tang like someone threw in a rotten vegetable from some other planet.
Fuck.
You'd think it would have a tomato taste to it or something, but instead the appearance together with the taste makes me wonder if they don't grow these things off plants in Hell and the red sauce or whatever are the last remnant bloodtears of a mortal's humanity crying out in pain.

>> No.10971229

>>10971198
Kim chi is delicious and healthy.
>you'd think it would have a tomato taste
Hurr durr, its red so it tastes like tomatoes.
Fucking giga-tastelet thread.

Its cabbage thats been fermented and coated with chili pepper. It tastes like exactly that, sour and spicy cabbage.

How are people this dumb and uncultured?

>> No.10971232

>>10971198
its a side dish that's mostly eaten with other things, so you eat other shit at the same time. It goes well with rice.

>> No.10971237

>>10971198
Thats because kimchi is rotten u fucking idiot. Believe it or not gooks didnt have refrigeration so they ate fermented food

>> No.10971245

>>10971198
>it has a tang like someone threw in a rotten vegetable
It's literally fermented, that's what fermentation is.
A lot of people like that flavor, but it's obviously strong and potentially off-putting if you aren't looking for that.

>> No.10971252

>>10971198
Look, it's the fat weaboo who read bunch of a bunch of netto-uyoko mangas and are now making his three times weekly anti-Korean thread on /ck/ to do his part to glorify Nippon.

>> No.10971309

Here in Korea, kimchi can also be made with unripe tomatoes and without any chili peppers.

>> No.10971317

>>10971198
Sauerkraut > dill pickles > kimchi

I could eat plain sauerkraut until I exploded from sodium overload. Really need to get pickling at home.

>> No.10971373

>>10971198
kimchi is good you fucking philistine

>> No.10971375

>>10971229
does it taste anything close to sauerkraut? Because I love sauerkraut

>> No.10971393
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10971393

>>10971198
>preserving food by decaying it on purpose

>> No.10971415

>>10971393
If you don't spoil your food, they win

>> No.10971466

>>10971393
It's free real estate otherwise.

>> No.10971469

>>10971393
It's called vaccination, dipshit, read a book

>> No.10971497

>>10971229

if it's so healthy why do koreans have the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world?

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>>10971198
God I love kimchi. But, I have to make sure I'm not going to be around anyone for like 3 days. Gives me terrible breath that lingers through brushing and rinsing. Maybe I lack an enzyme to break down the garlic or something.

>> No.10971510

>>10971497
>drink alcohol nearly every day after work because life sucks
>virtual no quality control on food anywhere in the country

>> No.10971608
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>>10971198
Because Koreans were until very recently, poor. Their entire cuisine is based on boiled one-pot stews that consist of fermented vegetables, chili paste, and tofu; some of the cheapest ingredients that never go bad.

The heavy spices have the added benefit of masking the taste whatever rotten meat they include. If you want good East Asian food eat some Japanese or some Manchurian cuisine.

>> No.10971688

>>10971375
No, it doesn't. It doesn't have that sort of... pickly flavor? It just tastes like almost sweet spicy mass.

>> No.10971708

>>10971688
>pickly flavor?
yeah exactly, sauerkraut is basically cabbage in its own natural vinegar.
Oh well seems kimchi is not for me

>> No.10971720

>>10971608
Cheap stuff is often good

>> No.10971730

>>10971708
Kimchi is alsi fermented and has lacto acid. It is similar just spicier.

>> No.10971736

>>10971708
Yeah its fermented with different strain I think.
Also, theres a lot of salt and chili in it.
More like saurkraut + hot sauce

>> No.10971739

>>10971375
People say no but as far as texture and taste i feel like sauerkraut is like a plain version of kimchi
Like just chicken noodle soup vs hot and sour soup. I love both but kimchi definitely has a taste to ot that is not present in sour kraut.

>> No.10971741

>>10971497
go look up what country has the highest per capita hard liquor consumption in the world

>> No.10971743

>>10971736
You mean yeast strain or something? You dont add anything for the fermentation.

>> No.10971762

>>10971743
That's because its already growing on the napa.
You know food rots because there's bacteria on it homie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_kimchii

>> No.10971779

>>10971762
I thought the bacteria were the same or depended on where the cabbage was grown, not the type of cabbage.

>> No.10971808

>>10971739
Thanks. I didn't know what kimchii was prior to this thread but now I'm gonna make some. I need to get napa cabbage first... no idea where though. I'll see.

>> No.10971830

>>10971198
it's good?

>> No.10971897

>>10971808
Do they not sell it by you?
I can get three different brands at my local grocer.

>> No.10971920

>>10971897
I live in Argentina and I've never seen one desu. I'll probably find it in the city market.

>> No.10971996

kimchi is delicious desu

>> No.10972101

>>10971608
>go eat some of this thing that barely even exists
ok dude, ill just hop on by to my local manchu spot. fucking retard, manchus don't even really exist any more, they've been sinicized into nonexistence.

>> No.10972126

>>10971309
Some people in America picke green tomatoes too, it's just not that popular except for in a few regions

>> No.10972130

>>10972126
>picke
pickle*

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>>10971237
Everyone ate fermented food before refrigeration, you brainlet. It was that, or starve in the winter.

>> No.10972170

>>10971743
Kimchi generally uses fish sauce, as well as a small amount of some salted seafood, which should result in a different population of microflora when compared to sauerkraut

>> No.10972175

>>10972163
Can't grain be stored for quite some time in a dry place? Also dried meat. I don't think you can live from only pickled cabbage, it has very few calories.

>> No.10972178

>>10971198
>last remnant bloodtears of a mortal's humanity crying out in pain
gay as fuck, fuck u

>> No.10972190

>>10971608
>Manchurian cuisine.
your opinion doesn't matter

>> No.10972204

why is there a kimchi hate thread every week? it's not even popular so why even make a thread about it?

>> No.10972224

>>10972175
Sure, if you want to eat nothing but grain for the whole of winter and suffer from various micronutrient deficiencies. People would generally take advantage of every method of preservation available to them - salting, smoking, curing, fermenting, potting, and so on. People wouldn't just live on pickled cabbage, it would make up one part of a diet that featured other preserved foods. Cheese is a way of preserving milk through bacterial action, for instance, and dried meat could also be lacto-fermented.

>> No.10972236

>>10971741
>simultaneity is correlation
Not that you're necessarily wrong, but be careful my friend.

>> No.10972240

>>10972163
That's one cute ass cat, but it looks a little bit underfed.

>> No.10972278

>>10971608
>Because Koreans were until very recently, poor.

This is a meme perpetuated by the military junta that ruled S. Korea from 1961 to 1987 to justify the dictatorship (we're rescuing you from 5,000 years of poverty). The fact is that travelogues written by Chinese scholars (archived in China) from 16th to 17th century consistently remark that Korean peasants are lazy as fuck because food is abundant. Period recipes, especially the ones from Seoul, use tons of beef.

The persistent poverty period started in the 19th century with the sudden population increase caused by introduction of potatoes from Europe (Europe also experienced explosive population growth due to extremely calorie efficiency of potato farming versus traditional grains). The decline of Chosun dynasty that ruled Korea followed by 1910 annexation by Japan and 1950-1953 Korean War capped off the ultra-poverty period.

>> No.10972752

>>10971466
(It's free real estate)

>> No.10972847

Nigga you gay kimchi is the shit

>> No.10972881

>>10972847
are you implying OP is A FAGGOT?

>> No.10972946

>>10972278
>dont trust korean propaganda
>trust this old chinese propaganda instead

>> No.10972955

>>10971808
Cool im glad i could help but like alot of people say its not for every one and can have a sour smell but again ive never met some one who liked saurkraut and hated kimchi.

>> No.10972981

>>10972946
Koreans are the literal KANGZ of the Asian continent, reality is they've been cucked by foreign powers for as long as they've been around.

>> No.10972986

>>10972981
Ok buddy

>> No.10972998

>>10971920

Buenos Aires has a gigantic Korean population if you live anywhere close. They’re all in Flores. Went to a great Korean restaurant there when I wanted a break from the Argie food

Can’t remember the name but it was in a small shopping complex

>> No.10973074

>>10971198
People have been eating various pickles for a long time. Not only are they nutritious, but they're a way to preserve vegetables when you don't have a fridge. They're also how you keep from getting scurvy during the winter when fresh food was traditionally unavailable - pickled cabbage is a good source of vitamin C, which is why it exists in so many cultures where winter made fresh veggies impossible.

But kinchi serves another role in Korean cuisine. It adds an acid component to meals that might otherwise be lacking it. Similar role wine plays in southern Europe, and vinegar or lemon juice play in Mediterranean cuisine.

>> No.10973392

>>10972998
Nah I live in a town in Córdoba. Next time I go to the city I'll stop by the big market they have downtown.

>> No.10973433

>>10972981
Korea is slightly less raped by Mongols and Manchus than China.

>> No.10973469

>>10971198
Either you've been eating some low quality kimchi, or you need to adjust to fermented food.

>>10972946
Why would the Chinese want to make the Koreans sound good?

>> No.10974796

>>10972236
Soju is basically weak vodka, and its the preferred drink after work. Plus because asian culture, you are encouraged to drink to keep up with your boss and his crazy antics of calling shots, on top of drinking games.

>> No.10974827

>>10971375
>does it taste anything close to sauerkraut?
Oh HELL no. It usually tastes like funky fermented fish product that's been soaked in rotten garlic.

>> No.10975222

>>10974827
t. assblasted nip still butthurt they had to grovel at korea's feet for their war crimes

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>>10975222

>> No.10975298

>>10971229
>uncultured
I see what you did there.

>> No.10975307

>>10975222
>irrelevant gook still wishing he could get america's dick away from japan so he could suck it himself

>> No.10975450

Every single korean dish is fucking disgusting and they all smell like shit. My roommate is a gook and exclusively eats peanut butter and some sort of shitty fermented soybean thing, literally smells like the inside of an anus.

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10975475

>>10971198
>it has a tang like someone threw in a rotten vegetable
What a coincidence, kimchi tastes like rotten veggies

>> No.10975480

I enjoy kimchi and while I could eat most pickled things out of the jar, sauerkraut included, I agree that kimchi is just okay on its own. I have only tried one brand of though.

>> No.10976691 [DELETED] 

>>10975475
You say that like its some grand revelation that its fermented. I only described what it tasted like, the thread more or less validated what I said.

>> No.10976710

>>10975475
>>10971229
>>109712
You guys saying this shit like its some grand revelation that its fermented. I only described what it tasted like, people telling me it is in fact fermented more or less validated what I said.

And then my apparently accurate hunch is taken as proof of me being an idiot. Good job guys.
Because actually, part of the reason I even made this thread is because I know if I was honest about my nearly initial impression of kimchi, people would post retarded shit like this and I could be amused by people getting this defensive.

>> No.10976719

>>10974796
Why can Korean bosses drink that much? Everyone says the workers drink because the boss says so, but do the bosses drink?

>> No.10976732

>>10971198
>>10976710
Well.. that and I also just wanted to say that one part
>... makes me wonder if they don't grow these things off plants in Hell and the red sauce or whatever are the last remnant bloodtears of a mortal's humanity crying out in pain.

>> No.10977878

>>10976732
Probably some flyover who thinks chili peppers are too exotic

>> No.10977885

>>10971198
t.fatburgerlard

>> No.10977892

>>10971393
>healing infections that could be caused by fungus by creating fungus on accident then consuming it
The world is a weird place anon (it's how penicillin was made, if you didn't get it).

>> No.10977902

>>10972278
My friend is 29 and from South Korea. He quite literally ate dog when he was little. In the fucking 90s. Korea has advanced a lot over the years in giant cities like Seoul (free good wifi on any street, lots of western influence and tech) much like Japan is. But it's still poor in a shitton of areas.

Korea has more "flyover" spots than America. And the flyover spots are much worse because it's basically just poor country bumpkins eating dogs and trying to live as cheaply as possible.

>> No.10977916

>>10971497
the chems usa dropped on their grandparents

>> No.10977928

>>10974796

the statistics include women anon.

>> No.10977955

>>10977892
>Your body is full of little bacterial gang wars.

>> No.10978152

>>10976719
I was a liaison officer with the ROK Army and I can assure you there is a real macho drinking culture in Korea. When you're partying you are expected to keep up shot for shot with everyone else and if you're too much of a puss to do so you will be ridiculed, looked down on and ostrasized. These guys weren't teenagers either they were officers all the way up to Lt. Col.