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chicago-geniza · 5 months

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Neighborhood Korean grocery store sells their own kimchi with a variety of ingredients. Tragically it uses shrimp. Happily they also make a vegan batch. Vegan kimchi is lighter and sweeter much of the time and it's nice but I do like the pungency and umami flavor that jeotgal provides, and not ALL jeotgal is shellfish. One of my favorite kimchi recipes uses anchovy

#This grocery store has a JEOTGAL aisle and a KIMCHI aisle and a RICE aisle #They're my favorite store in Chicago #They also have a deli counter + a seafood butcher + a cafe where #You can get fresh soups and noodles and banchan and it's criminally good #It's always like 20 Korean aunties then a few neighborhood families on the 82 bus route and my favorite clientele #Korean teenagers showing off to their non-Korean girlfriends/boyfriends lmao

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