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I just bought a jar of hot American-made kimchi. I enjoy eating the spicy, pickled cabbage, particularly when it’s kimchi tofu.
So, this Los Angeles Times story certainly resonated with me.
Get this: South Korea’s first kimchi “master” Kim Soon-ja reportedly has succeeded in making the garlicky aroma disappear from the centuries-old food.
Reporter Ju-min Park explains that Kim has invented a way to freeze-dry the kimchi and that adding water produces no pungent odor.
But, yes, yes. Let’s say it. We need to say it: Wait!
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Over at CHOW, you can find a recently posted recipe for kimchi and tofu, a popular dish for many Koreans.
It’s delicious because it mixes coolness, heat and spice together. I ate a version more than a decade ago when I was in South Korea to celebrate the wedding of my friend, Norm.
The CHOW dish calls for pork belly. I like meat. But with this dish, I prefer tuna.
In May, I posted a quick note about how Norm and I – who are both from North America – came across this dish.
In my post, I linked to another tofu kimchi recipe from the blog, KoreanHomeCooking.
UPDATE: Chow also has a great tofu discussion here.
When I eat, I typically equate a hot food dish with heat. Likewise, I consider a cold dish to be more or less cool throughout.
That seems like basic logic. But in 1998, a simple but tasty Korean dish reminded me again of how my senses react when hot and cold meet and combine.
I was introduced to a plate of stir-fried kimchi with tofu and tuna.
My friend from Canada, Norm, was getting married in South Korea, his fiancee’s home country. He and I met in Guangzhou, China two years earlier. We studied at the same language school.
At the time of his wedding, I was working on Guam and flew in for the celebration. He and his fiancee planned on a large banquet in Canada later that year. So, I was his only friend for the Korean-style nuptials.
On the eve before his wedding, we didn’t really know where to go to mark this happy moment. We ended up heading to a neighborhood bar.
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