Seoul Off The Beaten Path Tips by ancient_traveler

KIMCHI: food of Korean for over a thousand years

Korean people can hardly imagine a meal without kimchi. Kimchi is the basic side dish at every Korean food and is eaten with every meal. It is made of salted cabbages or radishes mixed with red peppers, garlic and pickled seafood. Kimchi is spicy yet sweet, and rich in seasonings, making refreshing to any meals addition. Kimchi contains the Korean spirit and, through the devotion and care it takes to make, embodies much of what Korean is. That can be stored for a long time. There are now more than 160 kimchi varieties, most of them quite spicy. Kimchi is the basic side dish at every Korean meal; it is also an ingredient in other popular dishes such as kimchi stew, kimchi pancakes, kimchi fried rice, and kimchi ramyeon (ramen noodles). Kimchi is being widely tried in various ways in an effort to create new tastes and flavors. These days, kimchi is gaining popularity worldwide for its nutritional value and disease-prevention properties.

Kimchi museum
Anything any gourmet could ever want to know about Korea’s famous pickled condiment is here: history, variations, nutritional information and the fermentation process. (Closed on Monday)

Inside COEX MALL. Subway line 2 Samseong stn exit 6

Phone: 02-6022-6456

Website: http://www.kimchimuseum.or.kr