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[PigeonFart]

You know the tins of Kimchi that are sold in Incheon Airport (with the overbearing saleswomen trying to get your attention)?

Could those tins of Kimchi survive a 24 hour journey home (12 hr flight + more travelling by car)?

I'd like to know because i'd like to bring gifts home for the folks at Christmas (they've never eaten Kimchi before).

[Stalin84]

I think Kimchi lasts longer than Twinkies...

[redaxe]

Unless it's vacuum sealed it's going to literally smell like a fart by the time you get home.

One time I was in Chicago in the summer and I bought some kimchi in a jar at the Korean mart in the afternoon, and put it in the trunk of my car. I went over to a friend's house and we went out for dinner and a couple drinks. By the time I got back to my car a few hours later the entire car smelled like horrible flatulence from the warmed-up kimchi in the trunk.

[atwood]

Agreed on the smell. And you'll never get it out of anything else packed with it.

[redaxe]

[valkerie]

I've bought these before (if they are the tins with a vacuum packed sachet inside.) Half the time they blow up with gas and are have to be thrown away.

[northway]

The whole point of kimchi is as a preservation method, it's not going to spoil.

[Murakano]

I`ve brought kimchi back home a few times and It`ll be fine... though overpriced (obviously) if you get it from the airport.

[redaxe]

[teacherinseoul]

I didn't have any problem with the kimchi tin, although my family wasn't fond of the kimchi (I ended up eating it myself).