This one was a no-brainer. I like to cook, and usually we make some pretty good meals at home, but there's one dish I just can't get enough of. It's kimchee, and since my beloved Hanabi closed its doors a few years ago, I have been woefully low in the kimtake department. There's a Korean place in Pleasantville that serves up kimchee jigae, but it's not really all that great.Thankfully, there is a place to get a great dish of kimchee in the area. It's Noodles of the World (or, as it's more commonly know as, "NOW") and it's located inside the Borgata casino right in Atlantic City. The Borgata recently added an entire new 'wing' of restaurants, most of which are a little too fancy for you and me. Not so with NOW. It's basically a little row of tables and two counters, and the food is great. It's also not too expensive, which is nice for a casino restaurant in AC.
The only bad thing about the kimchee is that it's only an appetizer. The dish is relatively large for a pre-meal treat, but I wish they would have a larger, meal-sized variety.
Someone who works with my wife gave us a package of kimchee seasoning, which makes about 10 pounds of the stuff. I haven't mustered up the energy to make it yet, but I think I may have to. That shit is just outta site.
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This stuff is an absolute staple in Korea. Not only does everyone eat it over there, they smell like it. It comes out their pores. There is the winter variety and the summer variety. I don't remember which, but ones is more spicy.
I used to eat it a lot. I've tried the stuff they sell in the grocery stores here in the states and it's not as good as a remember it being.
Yeah, I have not yet managed to get it from a supermarket. First of all, they don't really sell it around here (except at the Asian market, but those fuckers pretended not to understand me) and second of all, I don't think I would eat it even if I did find it.
My wife doesn't like me eating it. She says it stinks. It's basiclly rotten spicy cabbage so I guess I can see her point.
There was something they always served with kimchee. It was yellow and sliced into discs. I think it was some kind of pickled turnip or something. It was really good. It had a sweet taste to it. I've never found that here in the U.S. of A.
When I was stationed in the Philippines, I would get sent to Korea a lot. I loved it there. It was much better then the Philippines. Then again, just about anything is.
Yeah, they serve(d) those pickled things at my forever-gone Korean restaurant. In fact, when you ordered Kimchee, they served a shitload of tiny dishes with lots of other stuff in them. Pickled cucumbers, spicy bean sprouts, all kinds of stuff.
My wife always complained when I ate it, too.
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