Korean restaurants normaly serve kimche before your main meal comes in small bowls, usually several types placed on your table. Every restaurant I've been to does this and it's just part of your meal.
OK, now I get it, thanks. It's served like chips and salsa(s) at a Tex-Mex place. Goes well with the dinner, but it's also an appetizer/snack food.
I can work with that. Even if my family gets a taste for Kimchi, I'm going to have to accompany it with meat. They all like chips and salsa, but if I answered that when they asked what's for dinner, they'd eat the chips and then head out the door for Sonic or WhataBurger.
Sorry Marty, if you have to go through that to make more presentable or palatble for your family then I'd skip it as you are going to rob them and yourself of the true Kimchi experience by sullying it with American picnic foods. Try it yourself and decide, the Trader Joe's stuff is most likely despiced and watered down for most American tastes anyhow.
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was just joking about the hot dogs.
For the Kimchi experts that have tried the Trader Joe's version: How is it? Watered down?