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Snapshots from Seoul: 8 Must-Eat Foods

Korean food is simpler and homier than, say, Japanese food, though the two cuisines do share some characteristics—the combination of sweet and savory flavors, plenty of seafood, and lots of grilled and simmered dishes. Check out the eight dishes you can't leave Seoul without eating.

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Vegan Kimchi As Good As The Real Thing

Anyone else out there a huge fan of degraded fermented cabbage flavored with dried chili and semi-rotten seafood, replete with the lingering aroma of old garlic and repressed farts? Yeah, thought so. I love kimchi too, but man, do I have to work on my descriptions. Here's how to make a completely vegetarian version at home.

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Dinner Tonight: Kimchi Pasta with Bacon and Sesame Seeds

Marc Matsumoto—the writer behind the beautiful food blog, No Recipes—admits from the start that this recipe was created because he was "feeling lazy" and didn't want to leave his house. Last night I found myself in exactly the same situation—hungry but too lazy to trek out to the store to buy all new ingredients. If you happen to be stocked with Korean and Italian stables (like I am) then this is the perfect solution.

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Taste Test: Cabbage Kimchi

How do all the kimchi brands compare? The only way to find out: taste them all, and risk infusing the SEHQ air with that unmistakable kimchi aroma. We tried five national cabbage kimchi brands and five brands that are locally produced in NYC. Find out how they all did!

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Serious Heat: 10 Things to Do with Kimchi

While you can always stir kimchi into rice for an easy side (with no complaints from me!), sometimes I crave kimchi fusion. Kimchi is fermented vegetables, most often cabbage, but there are varieties, one of my favorite being made with radishes. Seasonings can include garlic, ginger, chiles, fish sauce to make for a condiment that's fiery and salty with a pucker-worthy tartness. Because of this acidity, it greatly complements richer dishes. Here are 10 fusion-inspired ideas on what to do with kimchi.

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Seriously Asian: Cooking with Kimchi

I'd like to put forth the claim that you can never have too many jars of kimchi. For starters, kimchi is one of the freshest-tasting and juiciest types of pickled things out there, so the jars probably won't be sitting in your fridge for long. But if you find yourself with an abundance of one of Korea's gifts to mankind, there are all kinds of ways you can employ kimchi in your cooking. Including this recipe for kimchi dumplings.

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Video: How a Korean Great-Grandmother Makes Kimchi

"Since I have a big family, I've made kimchi so many times. I must have made it more than 10,000 times," says Yu Um Chon in the beginning of this video from Cool Hunting. She demonstrates how to make cabbage kimchi by mixing together radish, hot pepper, salted shrimp, garlic, ginger, scallions, fish sauce, and sugar, and layering the mix with cabbage leaves (she adds artificial sweetener to cut down on sliminess).

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What Happens When You Try to Make Kimchi Quesadillas in Korea

"We kind of had the opposite problem that anyone stateside has... Kimchi is not exactly hard to come by here, and when you live in a neighborhood adjacent to a military base that houses several thousand U.S. military personnel, cheese and tortillas aren't either; it's just that they're severely overpriced. I had to spend about $12 for like half a pound total of cheddar and monterey jack." —tumblandrew.tumblr.com (in response to yesterday's Dinner Tonight recipe)...

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Street Food Profiles: Marination Mobile in Seattle, Washington

Note: It's time for another edition of Street Food Profiles. This week we scoot to Seattle for Hawaiian-Korean curbside cuisine. [Photograph: Andrea J. Walker] Name: Marination Mobile Vendors: Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison Twitter: @curb_cuisine Location and hours: Roaming the streets of Seattle six days a week. Equal opportunity neighborhood dwelling. Typically open 11a.m. to 2 p.m. The changing locations are posted on our website. Kimchi rice bowl. [Food photographs: Marination Mobile] What's on the menu? Tacos (spicy pork, kalbi beef, "sexy" tofu, and miso ginger chicken), Aloha sliders (made with Hawaiian-style braised pork on a sweet bun), kimchi fried rice (served with a sunny-side up egg), and things involving Spam (like Spam sliders and Spam musubi). We regularly throw...

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Video: How to Make Kimchi on 'Nyam Nyam'

On wacky cooking show Nyam Nyam, host Nari Kye teaches you about kimchi—how it's traditionally made in Korea, and how to make a quicker version at home with a special ingredient. Watch the video after the jump....

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