Quite an interesting find for us as Seoul Market sits across the street kiddy corner from Cafe Ga Hyang. It's exterior resembles a pawn shop-esque-conbini-like Korean market. We saw its existence when we were in the hood late last week but it was too late for it to be still open so we haaaad to venture back to visit this time around.
Kinda a 600 square foot mom and pop shop with literally two old little Korean ladies hanging out shooting the bull in their native lingo in a drearily lit store with a few small aisles full of staple condiments, imported instant noodles, instant and loose leaf teas, not your normal dessert like rice cracker packs, refrigerated Korean soups and frozen foods. But in the rear is the golden stash of frozen and fresh kimchee marinated varieties that are store labeled as thus must be the fruit of the labor of the aforementioned bull-shooter lady dolls.
We just opted to pickup a 30oz jar of the kimchee napa cabbage and at $4.99 it definitely warranted the trial. However, as we ended up stuffing ourselves at CGH afterwards I wasn't able to pop open the jar for a tasting, but we do look forward to hopefully a delicious surprise in coming days as the jar could seriously last us a month! All in all it's probably not that bad for Glendale dwellers to make a pit stop for a refill of KTown 'soul food'!