Aunty likes the Korean kim chee from Costco – it used to be Choonga and now it is called Joonga. The big squarish bottle with the green plastic cover. SO ono but TOO much. I eat it with rice or saimin, or sometimes I would make it with spam – Ann Corum’s recipe. But I can’t finish most of the bottle so it starts to get old and more potent and sits in the refrigerator until I guiltily throw it away after a few weeks. So wasteful.
Jalna did a post about putting it in hamburger. It looked really good and I still have to try it.
Recently I was watching a new Korean drama on Netflix called Mystic Pop Up Bar. It is a cute show about a punished shaman’s daughter who has to save 100,000 people because of what she did 300 years ago. Anywho, one of the characters shared a recipe with her using old kim chee. It goes like this:
Rinse ripened kim chee. (I also squeezed it out so it was like a big golf ball). Chop it up finely and add shoyu and sesame oil. Plop it on noodles and pour anchovy sauce over the bowl.
Sounds good and easy, doesn’t it? So I made it tonight, but I didn’t have anchovy sauce. (What is that anyway?)
It was karai, sour, and sweetish. Strange but very delicious! Perfect for a hot bowl of noodles. And good for my digestion because kim chee is full of probiotics. So glad to find another good kim chee recipe, especially for old kim chee. No more waste, woo hoo!
Hoo, you are more Korean than I am. Lol. I don’t like kim chee that much, but will eat it if it is offered to me.
What?!? I thought kim chee was the standard dish for Koreans, like pasta is to Italians, and rice for the Japanese. You are more international than most!
I didn’t know it was full of probiotics. My daughter makes kim chee fried rice which we really love. I didn’t even know Costco sold any kind of kim chee. We buy Halms at Sam’s Club. It’s actually almost too mild bough.
Very good for the digestion. In the same family of good probiotics as sauerkraut and even yogurt.
Uuuuuu, your noodles look good. I like the spam chunks. And what a coincidence . . . my blog post for today is Kim Chee Tofu soup!