Oct 16
The Kimchi Situation Ain't Good
This is what happens when the price of a head of Korean-grown napa cabbage jumps all the way to $14.
Kimchi has become so expensive that some restaurants in the capital no longer offer it free as a banchan, or side dish, a situation akin to having an American burger joint charge for ketchup, although decidedly more calamitous here. The politics editor of a major South Korean newspaper called the kimchi situation “a national tragedy,” and an editorial in Dong-a Ilbo termed it “a once in a century crisis.”
-- Rising Cost of Kimchi Alarms Koreans
No kimchi banchan? UNACCEPTABLE.
Note to self: ask mom for her oi (cucumber) kimchi recipe.
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