Can anyone tell me about Kimchi? They sell it in my local Oriental supermarket but the packaging is all in Korean (obviously, duh). I want to know if I eat it straight from the package or need to cook/heat it.
I'm on an eastern food binge and having fun making Thai/Malay curries and other spicy stuff.




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I've read long about that and apparently it's a very healty food!
I'd love to try some homemade one though. Looks very nice...

I think it's generally served cold, at least when I had it?

I've been to Korean restaurants and I don't remember it being served hot. On grocery Kimchi jars, always ate them cold straight from the fridge.

Learned to like Kimchi when I was stationed in Korea. The spicier the better. No preparation required. Eat it right from the package. Better cold than room temperature. Definitely do not cook or heat.

Good stuff.

Generally cold, but there is a really good "stew" usually called Kimchi Jigae which has it mixed in a hot pot with other stuff which is my favorite.

There is a Korean restaurant near me that specializes in "Soondubu" or tofu based hot pot dishes. I always get the Kimchi one too which is one kind of Kimchi Jigae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi_jjigae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundubu_jjigae

Righto!
nipped out in my lunchbreak and snagged some Kimchi. I'll try it tonight with some fragrant rice. Those vids helped a lot, I now have a list of stuff to purchase. Thanks chaps.

My interest in Asian food stems from when I lived in Singapore. I used to enjoy buying from the hawkers on the street and as long as it was dead, I'd give it a go.

You pay for Kimchi? I get it all the time when I leave lettuce in my fridge too long

kimchi is absolutely delicious but beware of garlic, kimchi smell will stick to your breath overnight

i absolutely love the stuff and eat some every couple nights.

generally it's served together with white rice and / or sliced meat, or as someone above mentioned, kimchi jigae / kimchi nabe (hot pot) which is basically just tons of kimchi put into a pot of broth with other veggies like cabbage and leeks and meat.

korean food is totally under-known in the world, they have got some of the most delicious dishes conceivable, so much meat and spicy stuff!

it's generally served at room temperature, but you can heat it up if you like! it's usually not served piping hot though.

in korea the kimchi is actually served up in the way it was fermented, a big long roll that you have to cut into strips yourself. they give you scissors to cut it at the table at restaurants.

I buy kimchi in small jars and use it up quickly or my whole fridge winds up smelling.

+1 to Korean food being underrated, Korean gurs for that matter.

My wife eats kimchi. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Smells like road-kill slathered in sour kraut to me.

I used to work with a really cute Korean girl who would eat stuff like that all the time. She always had horrible breathe. Damn shame.

I heard if you eat kim chi all the time, you can ward off all kind of diseases and even cold and flu.

I doubt there is a lot of science to back that up, but in general fermented food products are very good at improving health overall.

There are hundreds of kinds of lactobacillus bacteria and other helpful bacteria in kimchi which line your gut which helps you digest food better and probably reduces stress on your body which might result in a lower incidence of catching colds.

I would not be surprised if kimchi reduces the incidence of colon / stomach / intestinal cancer though.