Come vivente coreano-americano in Germania, è sempre interessante vedere le cose coreane diventare più popolari, ma non è Kimchi. Sembra più sauerkraut con il peperoncino aggiunto.
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di Myriagonian
Come vivente coreano-americano in Germania, è sempre interessante vedere le cose coreane diventare più popolari, ma non è Kimchi. Sembra più sauerkraut con il peperoncino aggiunto.
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di Myriagonian
31 commenti
Is it bad?
Germans never expected authentic food in supermarkets.
Please try it and report back.
Only found Korean imported Kimchi to be enjoyable so far.
I ll still trust my Korean Store next to me or my MiL for Kimchi
Always getting Kimchi from the asia store, they import their stuff so it’s proper.
need to keep in mind its catered towards the german taste, and sauerkraut is well established here. But thats how every country does stuff like this. Doesn’t make your statement untrue though.
Its horrible, doesnt taste like kimchi at all.
Jongga or GTFO
Does it have live cultures?
I feel you 😅
I tried it, it doesn’t taste good
Sauerkraut with chili… so… basically Kimchi? 😅
Just kidding of course. As a rule of thumb, any local version of any ethnic food is going to be not the real deal. See also e.g. “Nasi Goreng” as served in the typically German Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai “Asia restaurants”, or, even worse, the frozen food section food product that is labeled as such. “Abomination” does not even begin to cover the latter, and even the former has nothing to do with the Indonesian original except perhaps that rice is involved somehow.
Of course thats not Kimchi in the korean sense. It is made to be sold to Germans and so is made to fit the expectations of German customers 😀
I am also always surprised when I see typical German products in a supermarket in a foreign country. These products are also always made to fit the typical local preferences. You could often not sale them in Germany, cause they taste wrong.
The kimchee sold as a seasonal offer at Aldi seems okay to me https://www.aldi-nord.de/angebote/aktion-mo-05-05/kimchi-1024160-0-0.article.html
Try the one by Kühlmann x Bibigo, it’s basically indistinguishable from imported Korean Kimchi (and much cheaper)
Ewww.
If I want Asian food (ingredients), I go to the next small Asia store.
Most stuff in supermarkets is just not authentic at all and I would also never expect so.
Like you said, that looks like sauerkraut with a tiny bit of mild chilli.
Consider it payback for Americans fucking up Sauerkraut.
I have several spätis close by with old people that make that stuff in different varities and sell it for really cheap. Korean BBQs/Chicken are also almost everywhere nowadays. Even at the farmer markets you have stands selling kimchi. Its really popular.
Apt description, yes.
what do you think about the one Aldi Süd sells? Never had ‘authentic’ kimchi but that one didn’t taste that bad to me 🙂
Authentic kimchi isn’t vegetarian and contains fermented seafood. Might be a hard sell for people who aren’t used to that flavor profile.
Fortunately Berlin has a sizable Korean migrant community, so properly made kimchi is easy to find, either in local Korean shops (I have one a few minutes away from mine, selling it in large plastic containers for reasonable prices) or in Asian supermarkets (Go Asia is good for that, they have locally produced as well as canned products). And even my local REWE supermarket has Dongwon brand canned kimchi, which I found not quite as good but still decent enough for kimchi fried rice.
Not just kinchi. German store products selling non-german products are all blasphemy. Anything called Indian has loads of yellow curry powder which no Indian basically uses and they all taste same: yuck
Ah, I can hear an halmeoni crying in dispair somewhere 😂
In Brandenburg there appears to be a company that makes fresh Kimchi (Youns Gemüsehof); it’s at the various Asian super markets all over Berlin. It’s pretty good; they make a normal and a vegan (no fish sauce) variation.
But the best Kimchi I can get is the one my local Vietnamese greengrocer makes.
🤣🤣
Its basically spicy sauerkraut. If astounded if theres even fish or shrimp in it as some real kimchi has. In Luxembourg we have that domestically “kimchi” to. Its not kimchi.
The Go Asia markets are your friend if you need authentic Asian food that’s sold at a normal price point instead of the “foreign specialties” fees you pay at REWE etc.
And just as a general advice: DM notoriously fucks up food, their German food also often doesn’t taste like the real thing, same for their takes on Falafel etc. Some of the vegan sweets are nice, just don’t buy food at a drugstore.
This should not happen when Germany has the highest K-population in Europe. There should be K-protests. But no Korean would buy that stuff. Definitely false advertising.
I tried a similar product and you are so right. That’s not Kimchi at all.
I tried it because I love kimchi but this is freaking bad that abomination is the word I used too. I’ve made better kimchi at home that was also not very authentic but it tasted a thousand times better.