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Sirdanilot.. I have purchased seeds from Evergreen Seeds, as well as Kitazawa Seed Company, and etc for years. I’ve also traded seeds with people all over the world. Those peppers, are NOT the ones used for making kimchi. I know how to use Google, and if it were that simple, I would not have even asked this question here.
This pepper that you linked to is also a HYBRID.. Which means that I can’t save seeds from it. Hybrids are two kinds of peppers cross bred, and if you saved the seeds & used them for the next year, they would *NOT* grow true to the originals.
What I am looking for are heirloom peppers that Korean grandmother’s make their own red pepper flakes and powder from. A pepper seed that has been grown and passed down for generations. Something that is NOT a hybrid and NOT genetically modified. You *CAN* find these if you go to Korea & are at pepper festivals or you buy kimchi from old women or something. There’s several types of peppers that are used to make the powder & flakes. I want some of those.
In other words, I’m fully aware of that pepper. I have purchased that pepper. I have grown that pepper. It is *NOT* the kind I’m looking for. It’s NOTHING like what I’m looking for.
While I do appreciate your effort in searching, your answer did not help me at all, and I really don’t appreciate you acting like I don’t know how to use Google. I’m not an imbecile. Again, had it been that simple of a solution, I’d never have bothered asking in the first place.
OrionParticipantI like Japanese miso.. I also like doenjang chigae.
In regards to the wheat, I think it would only matter if you were allergic to wheat. lol You can try your doenjang & see if you like it, if not, get a different brand.
You won’t know anything unless you try.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doenjang
Doenjang is considered one of the essential sauces of authentic Korean cuisine. However, the condiment has historically been unknown outside of Korea, although recent international articles have resulted in an increase in its popularity. A 2007 Chinese article on the “Sauces of Korea” listed doenjang and gochujang as essential flavorings and explored the origins of the condiments, particularly focusing on Sunchang County, where most Korean soy sauce is produced. The article pointed out that doenjang does not contain any artificial additives and in fact has healthy amounts of essential vitamins, such as Vitamin C and Vitamin B12. The health benefits of doenjang are rumored to extend longevity, and this is illustrated by the fact that out of the 32,000 in Sunchung county, eight are over 100 years old and many are over 90. The article was influential throughout China, resulting in many Chinese restaurants adding doenjang stew, modified slightly to Chinese tastes, to their menus shortly after publication. South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo covered this story in China on December 13, 2007
OrionParticipantoh man, i love chong-kak kimchi! i would like to learn how to make this as well. :)
OrionParticipantif you don’t mind hybrid vegetables, water sun together is a good source for korean vegetables..
http://www.watersuntogether.com/itemList.asp?IT_Cat1=Asian%20Seeds
they have the radishes, lettuces, spinach, cucumbers, chives, egg plant, bok choy, korean peppers, napa cabbage, mustard leaves, etc..
they’re 1.99 a pack… most of the other seeds on the website are 99 cents..
if you want to be able to save your seed, i suggest buying from people that sell heirlooms, like cherrygal.com, gourmetseed.com, kitazawaseed.com, etc. you can save hybrid seeds, but you just won’t know what will come up.. if it’ll be the same as it was the year before or not.. i mean, obviously, if you plant a pepper seed you’ll get a pepper plant.. but you just won’t know which of the 2 parent peppers you’ll end up with.
OrionParticipantahhhh.. yuzu.. okay, i know where to get those. here’s a few sources:
http://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/featured_trees3.html
http://www.growquest.com/Fruit%20trees%20-%20better%20plant/Yuzu%20citrus.htm
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/yuzu.htm
here’s korean pear trees as well:
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php?func=view&id=36
http://www.burntridgenursery.com/fruitingPlants/index_product.asp?dept=10&parent=7
http://www.tytyga.com/product/Korean+Giant+Pear+Tree
http://willisorchards.com/category/Pear+Trees?gclid=COCOkIqo-58CFRBM5QodNld9lw
http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/producttype.cfm?producttype=Pears-Asian
http://gurneys.com/olympic-giant-asian-pear-tree/p/68045/
korean persimmons:
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php?func=view&id=290
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php?func=view&id=211
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php?func=view&id=306
http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php?func=view&id=301
jujube trees:
http://www.burntridgenursery.com/fruitingPlants/index_product.asp?dept=21&parent=7
ediblelandscaping.com has quite a variety of trees & stuff available. i recommend getting their catalog, as well as raintreenursery.com’s catalog. tons of stuff in there. even jujubes, quince, etc.
in regards to maesil plums, i think they have those as well. if not, i can find where to get a tree. as far as i can tell, they’re the same kind of pear used for umeboshi…
here’s some satsuma plums: http://www.willisorchards.com/product/Satsuma+Plum+Tree?category=256
ume plum:
http://www.forestfarm.com/product.php?id=3686
http://www.tytyga.com/product/Japanese+Flowering+Apricot+Tree
http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/productdetails.cfm?ProductID=C447
http://www.camforest.com/Prunus_mume_s/2.htm < this one lets you pick your color of flower
OrionParticipanti don’t know what an uja is. lol if it’s citron, it would be citrus- like lemon/lime/orange/etc.. which those fruits can only grow in zones 9 and up.. which means places like southern california, texas, louisiana, florida, georgia, etc. yuzu goes to zone 7b, though (think southern oklahoma).. you can get meyer lemon trees and kaffir lime trees and dwarf trees and keep them indoors, provided you get plenty of light in your home. :) you can even get dwarf pomegranate trees!
when i posted this, i was thinking of things more along the lines of chives, napa cabbage, perilla, etc. :)
OrionParticipantfor USA, you can also shop on Amazon.com and KOAMart.com!
don’t forget you can grow a lot of things yourself, too.. here’s some seed companies that sell asian seeds:
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/
http://www.watersuntogether.com/
http://www.newdimensionseed.com/
http://www.botanicalinterests.com/store/search_results_sample.php?select=20002
http://www.territorialseed.com/
http://www.marshallgrain.com/marshall/dept.asp?dept_id=3260
http://www.pan-asianseeds.com/
for korean/japanese sweet potatoes: http://www.sandhillpreservation.com
don’t forget you can buy things on ebay as well.
you can also go to gardenweb.com & join the asian vegetables forum, as well as the seed & plant exchanges and see if anyone would like to trade with you.
you can also make your own soy milk and tofu.
you can buy up to 30lb of non GMO (genetically modified) soy beans here: http://www.tosteds.com/products.asp?cat=11
here’s a soy milk maker: http://www.soymilkmaker.com/soyapower.html
here’s a tofu kit that comes with a tofu mold and enough natural nigari to make 240 POUNDS of tofu. http://www.soymilkmaker.com/tofubox.html
hope this helps some people.
OrionParticipantat a home cooked korean meal, i usually had 4 or 5 kinds of kimchi.. typically water radish kimchi, regular cabbage kimchi, ponytail radish kimchi, kakktoogi, stuffed cucumber kimchi and sometimes mustard leaf kimchi or sweet radish pickles (they’re yellow – i didn’t like them, but you can buy them premade).. we’d have 1 or 2 meat dishes, like jangjorim, and maybe some fish dish, of course a bowl of rice (i like the mixed rice with barley and wild rice and beans)… and some soup.. like soybean paste soup, kimchi chigae or tongtae chigae (pollack stew).. so basically every meal was a table full of food. but whatever we didn’t eat went in the fridge and we ate it for breakfast, lunch and dinner until it was finished. lol
OrionParticipantsweet rice flour! mochiko powder or sweet rice flour.. also the frozen rice flour.. and since you live far away from the korean market, you might also be interested in growing your own peppers to use. they can be like any other house plant. kitazawaseed.com sells organic seeds. you can also look at evergreenseeds.com. or heck, i can send you some if you can’t get ’em. i know ebay sells seeds, too.. but i mean.. pepper plants are pretty easy to care for, and at least you’d be getting one truly fresh vegetable in your diet. lol oh and the radishes keep quite a while if you store them properly.
an obvious staple- Chinese cabbage for KIMCHI! lol
OrionParticipantyeah.. you don’t have to put raw shellfish in your kimchi. i don’t. i’m a vegetarian, so i leave out fish sauce and stuff & my kimchi still turns out very good, just like homemade kimchi from korea!
OrionParticipantwhen i lived there, we pretty much just ate leftovers.. we had soup, several kinds of kimchi, some side dishes and some fish or meat and rice, of course.
i remember one time, my boss’s nephew bought some cakes (like chocolate cake) and some tomato juice. i was like EEEEWWWWWWWWW lol but i ate it anyway, so i wouldn’t look rude.
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