| The best kimchi I ever had
There is a unique food in Korea that you will never forget the taste of it at the first bite. It's called 'Kimchi'. 'Kimchi' is the most basic food in Korean's table and so it has many different recipes. But the most delicious kimchi I ever had was the one that my grandmother made. It was a cold but sunny winter in Korea. I came back from Brasil, where I lived for about 5 years. My grandmother lived in an apartment and there she ripen the kimchi at the hallway, outside of the house. Kimchi is often put into a huge crock and buried in the ground for ripening and storage. However as there was no place to bury the crock at the apartment, my grandmother just put it in a styrofoam box. When I went to visit her, she showed me the kimchi that was in the crock. It was covered with thin ice because of the cold weather and was yellow and red which it meant it was ripen for a long time. My grandmother told me it was kimchi. She ripped a part and gave it to me. I still remember the marvelous taste of that first kimchi I ever had. I put it in my mouth. At first it was so freezing that I thought I was eating ice. But right after that the sour and spicy sauce of the kimchi came out and I could chew the crunchy frozen salted cabbage. It was so delicious! The right amount of spicy taste, the mouth watering sourness and the frozen cabbage made a perfect kimchi. After eating that kimchi, I ate kimchi almost everytime I had meals. But there was no kimchi as tasty as that kimchi I had when I was 10 years old. Even my grandmother's kimchi doesn't taste like the one that I had 11 years ago. I still like kimchi very much and enjoy eating various kinds of it, but I wish I could eat the kimchi of my memory once again. It was the best kimchi I ever had! |
Saturday, September 25, 2010
pg.41 essay first draft TAE EUN KWON(200900220)
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[Won Du Ho]
ReplyDeleteYour writing is well organized. You did a good job.
However, one of my regrets in your writing is that your inroduction is too general and inconsistent. I think it is better to write specifically what you are going to talk about in you introduction
There was a moment in my life that I couldn’t forget the taste of a food at the first bite. Still, I have had no other food that shocked me so hard than the kimchi I ate when I was 10 years old.
ReplyDeleteIt was a cold but sunny winter in Korea. It was when I came back from Brasil, where I lived for about 5 years. My grandmother lived in an apartment and there she ripen the kimchi at the hallway, outside of the house. Kimchi is often put into a huge crock and buried in the ground for ripening and storage. However, as there was no place to bury the crock at the apartment, my grandmother just put it in a styrofoam box. When I went to visit her, she showed me the kimchi that was in the crock. It was covered with thin ice because of the cold weather and was yellow and red which it meant it was ripen for a long time. My grandmother told me it was kimchi. She ripped a part and gave it to me. I still remember the marvelous taste of that first kimchi I ever had. I put it into my mouth. At first, it was so freezing that I thought I was eating ice. But right after, the sour and spicy sauce of the kimchi came out and I could chew the crunchy frozen salted cabbage. It was so delicious! The right amount of spicy taste, the mouth watering sourness and the frozen cabbage made a perfect kimchi.
After eating that kimchi, I ate it almost every time I had meals. But there was none as tasty as that one I had when I was 10 years old. Even my grandmother's kimchi doesn't taste like the one that I had 11 years ago. I still like kimchi very much and enjoy eating various kinds of it, but I wish I could eat one with the same taste of my memory once again. It was the best kimchi I ever had!