How the Korean wave has fuelled the love for kimchi in India

Updated On: 12 July, 2024 07:01 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

As the world celebrates International Kimchi Day on November 22, mid-day.com speaks to lovers of the Korean dish, as well as chefs and restaurateurs who feature the dish in the menu

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Mumbai-based Neha Tyagi loves kimchi. The traditional dishes and words have been a part of her vocabulary ever since she joined the Korean wave in 2018. She joined many other Indians, who ended up falling in love with not only K-pop but the whole culture. She explains, “I started watching K-Dramas in 2018 and that is when I got introduced to kimchi and it was followed by the whole Mukbang trend. In K-Dramas, food gets a lot of importance, and the actors are eating on screen. There was kimchi everywhere and it looked scrumptious.”

From then on, every Korean dish became irresistible for Tyagi, and kimchi was the easiest to fall in love with because of the simplicity of the ingredients and the unique complexity of flavours. “I enjoy the texture of kimchi. It adds a lot of freshness and crunch to a dish. It is sour, salty and has a pungency that I quite enjoy. I think that is the part that gets my mouth watering and keeps me going back for more. I often eat it on its own instead of using it as an accompaniment to a dish,” she beams.

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