Personal Essay ( Kimchi)

In the morning, I was sleeping like a dead pig. Suddenly, my parents wake up up and ask me to eat breakfast prepared by them. I was like ’ can I sleep for another 30 minutes because I very tired, yesterday night I rush my professional food writing assignment until late night’.  My parents prepared the Korean Ramen and served with Kimchi as a side dish. Kimchi is a traditional fermented made of vegetables and variety of seasonings. It can described as spicy or sour, in traditional preparation Kimchi was often allowed to ferment underground in jars for months at a time. Kimchi is Korea’s national dish and there are hundreds of varieties made with a main vegetable ingredient.

What do you think when you eating kimchi? If me, I will feel the sourness and spicyness on my tongue even though before I am eating it. I could imagine the texture, taste and smell of kimchi. Korean people every time had their breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper with kimchi. It serve as a side dish, kimchi is really importance in their menu. It is like Korean couldn’t survive without kimchi.

I had eaten kimchi before at one of the restaurant in ampang, and that was my first time eating of kimchi. When I put into my mouth, I feel like there was a bomb in my mouth and it explode in my mouth, my tongue was cuddled by the kimchi combination of sour and spicy, I could feel my teeth cried. At least, I still tried to eat the kimchi because I fall in love with the crunchiness of the vegetable, the combination of sour and spicy, even though the process of eating kimchi is making me suffer but I still love it so much.

I could eat kimchi because I’m really daring enough to have another explode in my mouth. It sounds really pity of me, because I cold not enjoy the original taste of kimchi. After that, every time I consume korean food, I always ask for more kimchi even though I feel suffer but I enjoy the feeling. Some time I will ask the waiter to change the side dish to others because I will take some kimchi from my friend. I’m not really a Korean food lover but somehow I loves kimchi. I know that kimchi have a lot of benefit for our body, Kimchi is loaded with Vitamin A, B and C and it is also a food for anti cancer. There is no way to make kimchi have a better taste like other Korean foods. Even it is cooked by the other method cooking. It still have the smell, sourness, spiciness and the texture as well.