[Sca-cooks] A Correction for the list

[Stefan li Rous]

In the past I have made some unkind statements about Kim chee, the
Korean fermented cabbage stuff.

Well, I wish to correct those statements.

My previous experience had come from one of my co-workers whose
wife was Korean, who would bring a large jar of Kim chee into our
Yule parties at work. It smelled like rotting swamp vegetation and
something that could be used as a biological weapon.

However, this past Monday for my birthday my wife and I went out
to a Korean resturant here in town, Koreana. We ordered the Korean
barbeque. Along with this was served various small bowls of different
vegetables and one of these was a bowl of Kim chee. It did not stink
and was in fact quite good. I finished off the bowl since my wife
wasn't going to try any of this. While this may have been toned down
for "American" palates and I'm not sure I would have wanted a large
bowl, I still found it good. As I did the tofu, a food that I usually
detest as extremely bland. It was rolled in some kind of spicing and
then fried?. The various pickled vegetables made a good foil to the spicy
meat.

There were other dishes there that looked like they would be interesting
to try in the future such as the eel, but alas, my wife did not like
the BBQ, too sweet for her, and there wasn't too much more that she
seemed willing to try, so I doubt we'll be back. :-(
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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
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