Hey Guys and Gals,
So the church did a combination Korean/English service project where we made tons of kimchi to help feed the homeless population in this area. It was an interesting experience and something that I have never in my life done before but would definitely do again. Apparently there were 6 tons of cabbage and 7 of ingredients, at least that's what I was told, GO TEAM!
First of all I was 30 minutes late because I didn't leave the apartment until 9:30a which was when they started. I wasn't feeling particularly motivated to get up when my alarm went off so yea, need to try harder next time. I walked to the church listening to some tunes and arrived to people in full kimchi making mode...
The pastor of the Korean side of the church was very welcoming and helpful with getting me into my own gear which included: a hair net, face mask thingy to cover mouth and nose area, a disposable body suit zip up, and an apron, gloves and sleeves to cover the tops of the gloves and bottom of the body suit sleeve. And then I was lead by one of the English speaking men to the small area in the middle of this assembly line looking trough full of kimchi ingredients. This area had a couple of bilingual women including his wife who showed me how to make the kimchi.
So basically what I was shown was how to rub the ingredients onto the cabbage leaves and how to mix the ingredients. Unfortunately her instructions were pretty much, "Don't put too much. Don't put too little," which meant like nothing to me since I didn't know what "too much" was or "too little." The lady standing on the other side of me explained that is pretty much how Koreans explain things when cooking. I think that anyone that knows how to cook explains things similarly. I have been told to put "a little bit" of an ingredient into something as if that could be measured. I need to hear "a tablespoon" or "a cup." Obviously not when you're making "tons" of something but you get what I mean.
When the trough started to get low then they put all fresh new ingredients by the bucket or like kitchen sized trash bag and we had to mix it all together. Even though the lady standing close to me was saying what everything was I don't really recall everything. I remember that there was chili powder, radish, leaks, green onion, fish/shrimp paste, garlic something, and some other stuff that I don't remember so yea...
I'll have pictures later because one of the pastors is going to get some that they went around and took. I was too busy making kimchi, cause that's what I do! LOL
For now this is all I got...
So the church did a combination Korean/English service project where we made tons of kimchi to help feed the homeless population in this area. It was an interesting experience and something that I have never in my life done before but would definitely do again. Apparently there were 6 tons of cabbage and 7 of ingredients, at least that's what I was told, GO TEAM!
First of all I was 30 minutes late because I didn't leave the apartment until 9:30a which was when they started. I wasn't feeling particularly motivated to get up when my alarm went off so yea, need to try harder next time. I walked to the church listening to some tunes and arrived to people in full kimchi making mode...
The pastor of the Korean side of the church was very welcoming and helpful with getting me into my own gear which included: a hair net, face mask thingy to cover mouth and nose area, a disposable body suit zip up, and an apron, gloves and sleeves to cover the tops of the gloves and bottom of the body suit sleeve. And then I was lead by one of the English speaking men to the small area in the middle of this assembly line looking trough full of kimchi ingredients. This area had a couple of bilingual women including his wife who showed me how to make the kimchi.
So basically what I was shown was how to rub the ingredients onto the cabbage leaves and how to mix the ingredients. Unfortunately her instructions were pretty much, "Don't put too much. Don't put too little," which meant like nothing to me since I didn't know what "too much" was or "too little." The lady standing on the other side of me explained that is pretty much how Koreans explain things when cooking. I think that anyone that knows how to cook explains things similarly. I have been told to put "a little bit" of an ingredient into something as if that could be measured. I need to hear "a tablespoon" or "a cup." Obviously not when you're making "tons" of something but you get what I mean.
When the trough started to get low then they put all fresh new ingredients by the bucket or like kitchen sized trash bag and we had to mix it all together. Even though the lady standing close to me was saying what everything was I don't really recall everything. I remember that there was chili powder, radish, leaks, green onion, fish/shrimp paste, garlic something, and some other stuff that I don't remember so yea...
I'll have pictures later because one of the pastors is going to get some that they went around and took. I was too busy making kimchi, cause that's what I do! LOL
For now this is all I got...
All this time I thought that the orange things were peppers but they are actually a fruit called "persimmon" which is new for me. I liked it, so I brought some home, Daniel doesn't want to try it (no surprise there). The glass bottle was herbal tea that they gave us. It was heated so kind of too hot to hold and awkward because I felt like I was drinking cough syrup given the glass container. (They also gave us energy type drinks in the same type of container).
I got some kimchi on my shoes.
Love ya,
Camille
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