Just a story...
When I was younger, I rented out a room in my house to a Korean couple, that was my introduction to kimchi.
A few years later, I went to school. I had a classmate who was Korean and commented to him how much I loved it. A couple of weeks later, he brought a jar to school for me with some of his wife's kimchi in it. They were a poor couple but to honor me, she had used some of their meager income to buy fresh shrimp and include that in the mix. He and I both warned my classmates to not open the jar. On a break, one of the clowns who always had to know everything, got the jar while I was distracted it and opened it there in the room. Class was moved to another location to give the room a chance to air out.
I went outside and sat on the curb at lunchtime and enjoyed one of the finest meals of my life.
Thanks for bringing back a memory.