kimchi festival

Yum, the Kimchi Festival just so happened to be down the street from my school. Today all the special subject teachers drove the 3 blocks in my coworkers new SUV and sampled our way around the event. My favorite 2 are green plum kimchi and the perilla leaf kimchi(wild sesame - a basil/mint taste). It was all so tasty, with one exception, I have to try to block out the texture of the pickled fish liver. I bought 1 kilo of baechu kimchi (the popular napa cabbage style kimchi) which fortunately did not tear through the bag in my backpack. We ended to afternoon with my favorite food- kimchi pajeon ( kimchi and green onion pancake).

In case you are wondering how Koreans can afford all this cabbage. (The prices have been really high given the shortage of Korean grown cabbage due to the late summer floods.) Well, the government decided to lift the import tax on foreign cabbage for a few weeks to bring supplies in for the kimjang season(pre-winter food stocking/pickling season).