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This Week's Batches

It's time to cabbage roll to the summer/fall markets @ the XXXs and the Clark Fork Market (yep, Jung-a's is at both this year!) or order your kimchi for home delivery. Jung-a's is offering several batches of 배추김치 baechu kimchi (non-vegan) as well as some smaller batches, including a 깍두기 kkakdugi (cubed radish kimchi, non-vegan), a 루바부김치 rubabu kimchi (rhubarb kimchi; non-vegan), a 동치미 dongchimi (vegan) and 양배추김치 yangbaechu kimchi (green cabbage kimchi; non-vegan).

If you are interested in bulk orders, please email jungaskitchen@gmail.com

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Wasabi

루바부김치 Rubabu Rhubarb Kimchi

b. June 23, 2025

due to popular demand (after a wee lil test batch), Jung-a's made a batch of 루바브 rubabu (rhubarb) kimchi. don't you just love that rhubarb in Korean is rubabu? ^^

you're supposed to be humble, that's the Korean way. And so there's this part of Ariel that says she has to be humble, especially because she's driven to be as Korean as possible, the mostest and bestest (half) Korean who puts herself lower than everyone else. Now that she's aware of her mixed Korean white identity more than ever and now making kimchi for a living and wanting to feel closer to my family and to her roots, she goes a little overboard with wanting to be more Korean...and then forgets that she can do things that aren't traditionally as Korean and still be Korean American.

Jung-a's daring chingu (friend) Nari is boldly open about how proud she is of herself. "너 진짜 너무 겸손하다~ you're really too humble" she tells Jung-a.

This time she's going to own it, some Nari influence. and here, Wasabi is teaching her this too. She can make a really damn good kimchi.

루바브 rubabu from Jerri and Chuck's farm
파 green onions from Kong V. Moua
 

Little Box

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깍두기 kkakdugi (cubed radish)

b. May 27, 2025

She is made with red radishes, and does not have the typical 깍두기 kkakdugi flavor, but really a bold burst of yummm. 깍두기 Kkakdugis are pretty much next to baechu kimchi as you'll find they're often brought out to the whole spread on the table. In a lot of restaurants in Seoul, you can pull her out of a box and make your own little 반찬 banchan plate to bring to your eating place.

I was sitting in the pokey grass in our big back yard, thinking, "what is your name?" And in front of me was that little box, my first own little box that I could grow some seeds in. You can find some soon-to-be daepa, now little pa (pa means green onion and so 대파 daepa is a fat green onion, also known as Korean leeks and they're used in stocks, stir-fries and marinades); 적겨자 jeok gyeo ja (red mustards), 냉이 naeng-i (sheperd's purse), who I don't really know, but apparently she's good in soups, can be served as a cold side dish and can make a real yummy savory pancake (jeon).

Jung-a is trying her hand at growing. It's not something she grew up learning, and being in a place where so many people have their own little boxes, it's a bit intimidating but also feels like a good place to learn. And so she is taking it slow, taking it as another place to grow in connection with the land here, and start from soil to seed to sprout to bigger veggie beings to being pulled out or picked and then eaten to being pulled back more to new sprouts to bolting to turning yellow to going back to the ground to growing back (if that's what they do).

This kkakdugi is made up of little boxes herself; they're supposed to be cubes. Since Jung-a didn't want to waste the sides that she cut off, she mixed them in too. Maybe they're more like little boxes and funny moons.

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Red Moon

배추김치 Baechu Kimchi

b. June 11, 2025

 

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배추 baechu from Mai Lee and Chue Her Vang (Missoula Farmer's Market)
무 mu (radish) from Rocky Mountain Produce
파 pa (green onions) from Chuck's Farm

 

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Meoww

배추김치 Baechu Kimchi

b. June 4, 2025

She a fierce baechu 고양이 (goyang-i) cat. 

배추 baechu from Foothill Farm (see the baechu rolling)
파 green onions from Chuck's
무 radish from Sweet Root Farm

She likes to sit with you to keep you company (but then retreat back to here cold refrigerated home)

Happy Pride 🌈

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Shell

배추김치 Baechu Kimchi

b. May 28, 2025

배추 baechu Foot Hill Farm

파 pa (green onions) @chuckscountrygardens 

무 mu (radishes) from Rocky Mountain Produce

껍데기 (kkeopdegi) is shell in Korean. 

One of Ariel's teachers recently said to her that they weren't going to respond when she asked about what their focus is in their own practice. It's got her thinking about teacher/student relationships, hierarchies, relational attuning, building relationships slowly, maintaining privacy, the cultural nuances within a decision to be private or not... This theme of privacy has been showing up recently.

What do shells have to teach us about prvacy? A snail shell, a shrimp shell, a turtle shell, a snake shell, our home shell, our own skin shell...

 

Last batches

Jung-eun b. Jan 31, 2024​

Byung-a b. June 4, 2024

Kimberly b. June 11, 2024

Helen b. June 18, 2024 

Spring b. July 2, 2024

Dylan b. July 9, 2024

Mary b. July 16, 2024

Verde b. July 30, 2024

Uva b. August 6, 2024​​

Dal mia August 27, 2024

Naem Sept. 3, 2024

Ro-sa-lee-ya Sept. 10, 2024 

Marabe gido Sept. 16, 2024

Geomi-nox Sept. 24, 2024 (1 left)

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Mustard tokki Sept. 30, 2024

Gingko Oct. 8, 2024​

Scarlet Tanager Oct. 15, 2024

Magpie Oct. 15, 2024

Lil Shrimp Nov. 20, 2024 

Hummm Nov. 27, 2024

Fat Radish March 7, 2025 

Joy/Jobu March 28, 2025 

Miyeok April 22, 2025 

Jo Dec. 18, 2024 (1 left)

Shiwonae Nov 12, 2024 (1 left)

Madame Mustard May 12, 2025

Constancy May 27, 2025 

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Batches arrive, and then they eventually leave. Once a batch is done, she cycles through our bellies, releases through our excrements and then goes back into the dirt and water. 

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Missoula, MT 59801

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Mon. - Tues. 10 am - 5pm

Thurs. 10 am - 5p

​​Sat.: 9 am - 3 pm

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