I like -- maybe even love -- kimchi. In light of the recent LA Times story, do any Brooklyn markets have the good stuff? Are there little hole-in-the-wall kimchi stands with wrinkled old men meting out the genuine article once you say "swordfish" or some other secret word?
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I actually think that the kimchi from the Korean market on Flatbush near 7th Avenue in the Slope is pretty darn good. I'm actually hooked on getting the Korean marinated beef from Trader Joe's, which is righteous, and having it with the kimchi for a quick and delicious supper.
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yes! natural land! i love that stuff. definitely worth trying.
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You are more likely to find something like that out in Flushing than Brooklyn which, as far as I know, has no particular concentration of Koreans in any given area. Certainly not comparable to the vast number of places around Main Street and down Northern Blvd.
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as mentioned on the manhattan board, you really have to go to northern nj or flushing, queens to get good korean food, including good kimchi. there are no longer any korean communities anywhere in brooklyn (they mostly dispersed after the korean grocery boycotts of 1990), hence no good korean restaurants, markets, or food stores in the borough.
really, everything in the korean community is concentrated in bergen county, nj (fort lee and pal park especially) and northeastern queens (everything along northern blvd from flushing to little neck).
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Kimchee is not limited to Flushing and Northern NJ as someone pointed out earlier.
There are Korean supermarkets in other areas that carry Kimchee. Han Ah Reum on 32nd Street b/w Broadway and 5th Ave carries it, as do many other little shops on that street that sells Korean side dishes.
There's a Korean supermarket (the name escapes me) on Valentine Ave right off Grand Concourse in the Bronx also-at least it was there 10 years ago.
There are numerous Korean supermarkets from Sunnyside to Elmhurst along Roosevelt Ave and other Korean side dish stores.
As far as Brooklyn, I don't know, but I hear there's a very large Asian supermarket in SI that carries kimchee.
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