Kimchi, made in Belgium

Where to buy our kimchi

We make kimchi in West Flanders, one batch a week, and sell it through independent shops — not a webshop. This page says where it is sold, what the pot looks like in the fridge, and the one sentence to say to your own shop if it is not on the list yet.

Where it is sold today

In independent Asian supermarkets in Flanders — at the moment in Bruges and Ghent — in the chilled section, next to the tofu and the fresh noodles. Both versions, standard and vegan, come in the same 400 g pot.

We do not publish the shops’ names here; they are their own businesses and we would rather you heard it from them. Write to info@kimchihouse.be with your town and we tell you the nearest shop the same day. New shops are announced in the newsletter first — the form is at the bottom of this page.

What to look for

A clear 400 g pot with a clear lid, so you can see the kimchi before you buy it: red, glossy, cabbage leaves still whole with white stems. The date on the lid is the packing date plus three months — that is how long it keeps unopened in a fridge at 4 °C or below.

Two versions sit side by side. The standard one contains seafood, as Korean kimchi traditionally does. The vegan one is nine ingredients, all plant: Chinese cabbage, chilli, kohlrabi, apple, carrot, pear, garlic, ginger, spring onion, salt and sugar. Same recipe, same week, same pot.

Not near Bruges or Ghent? Ask your shop

Any shop with a fridge can carry it. We deliver chilled by road across Belgium within days of packing, and a first order for one address can be small. Shops mostly say yes when a customer asks — so ask. The sentence that works:

“Could you stock Kimchi House? It’s a fresh Belgian kimchi — kimchihouse.be, info@kimchihouse.be.”

Or send us the shop’s name and we write to them ourselves. Either way, tell us — it is the single most useful thing a reader of this page can do.

Why we don’t ship to your door

Raw kimchi wants a fridge, not a parcel van. A pot that spends two days at room temperature in a sorting centre arrives fizzing and sour, and we would rather you met it the way it is meant to be: cold, young and crunchy, from a shop that keeps it that way.

Restaurants

We also supply kitchens in 1, 2 and 5 kg. We do not list them here — a restaurant’s suppliers are its own business — but if you had a good kimchi somewhere in Flanders lately, it may have been ours.