Assorted Seaweed Salad [Korean Food] – 해초샐러드 – Ready-to-Eat Salad Kit, 7 Kinds of Seaweed, Korean Side Dishes Made Easy [Salad Mix] 7 Bags

I'm a corn fed Ohioan who converted to Zen Buddhism 50 years ago and adopted many Asian cultural delights, especially the healthy ones. I have gathered fresh seaweed in the Pacific Northwest but this is a great little salad with surprisingly fresh taste, tenderness, aroma and variety. In a sushi bar this salad would cost you $6 or more and they only add a tablespoon of rice vinegar or mirin, a pinch of sugar and a dash of toasted sesame oil or toasted sesame seed.I'll try adding a few small shrimp or scallops to it for a more complete salad. You can use this to top hot ramen noodles but it needs no cooking so don't even think about it! Try on a serving of hot rice w/soy sauce. If you need more seaweed per dollar to satisfy your curiosity, try a pack of dried wakame from US suppliers, it is just as good as from Asian importers. It is also practically instant and needs no cooking.A lot of skill and knowledge went into formulating this instant salad. Koreans know their seaweed!

First of all, let me say I am rating this product for what it is not what it isn’t. What I mean by that is that it is not a fresh seaweed salad, it is a dried product that must be rehydrated. So you cannot expect it to be as good as a fresh seaweed salad that you might get at a Japanese restaurant, that said, it is a wonderful product and very needed at least in my opinion. I love seaweed salad and since I cannot afford going out to eat all the time I miss seaweed salad in my life so I was very excited to find this product, Plus since it is a dried product it is useful because I can put it in the cupboard and not have to eat it instantly as I am the only one in my house that enjoys seaweed salad. I believe it takes longer to rehydrate than the directions say but this is not a big deal. Once it is rehydrated there is a variety of different sea vegetables and can be eaten just like that with a little dressing or soy sauce, alternatively it is very tasty with added land vegetables such as micro greens or grated beets and ginger. While I would generally prefer fresh seaweed salad, I like that this is a dried product because I have it around whenever I get a craving. So if you are comparing it to a fresh seaweed salad it is not as good however if you are reading this as a dried product that must be rehydrated it is fabulous has good flavor and I’ll definitely give it five stars. This will now be a pantry staple in my house.

I'm Korean, and I've always LOVED seaweed salad ever since I was a kid (now, I'm a mom of two kids). This seaweed salad is LEGIT. It's clean, tasty, and easy to make and delicious to eat. It cooks very quickly, and you can put them in cold water and mix it with some bibimjang (spicy and sour gochujang), or add them in miso or other soup. I've even put them in Japanese corn potage, and kids loved it. So - the seaweed is FANTASTIC.What's absolutely HORRID about the product is the packaging. This tiny and dried seaweed DOES NOT have to come in these tiny vinyl packages. The product is well dried, and it can be stored in a jar or other containers, and the product will be fine. Drying is a method of preservation - it really doesn't need to be in this harmful package. So, I would like to urge the manufacturer to reconsider the packaging and put a large amount in one bag (family size) to reduce waste and protect our ocean, which provides us with this delicious seaweed.

Easy to prepare and absolutely delicious!

If you like seaweed, you'll love the variety in this seaweed mix. I usually eat wakame seaweed salad, and use kombu for flavoring dishes, nori for sushi and rice, and agar agar for thickening. I found the mix of seaweeds novel and fun. Good to mix in rice, noodles, or soups --or even regular salads where you'd use microgreens. They have a nice ocean flavor, and are nicely al dente. I put a reconstituted packet in my canned mushroom soup. Novel addition, tasty, and nutritious, too. The packets insure you get all the different seaweeds in each portion, but do increase the money per serving, but you also get a precise amount each time, so overall, I'd say it was worth the cost. As for versatility, seaweed isn't as versatile as bread, but is about as versatile as any other standard vegetable. I don't hold that against the product, though.

I am a Korean mom who is borderline obsessed with eating fresh seaweed salad (with spicy pepper/vinegar mix sauce) every dinner. When I first found this authentic Korean seaweed mix product yrs ago, I was over the moon. But then suddenly this Summer, the company decided to change the package entirely (probably due to critical reviews regarding the previous plastic pack) into this fancy blue card boarded box. When I first got it, I had to recheck the name because I thought I received a completely different product.*UPDATE YOUR PRODUCT PICTURE!!*Enough with the packaging update that I really don't care much, but the company decided to downgrade the dried seaweed mix varieties (less wakame, more other slimy cheap filler seaweeds) and quality of seaweeds. It was so slimy and sticky that I couldn't eat them.Due to its new fancier packaging up-cost, I believe they had to downgrade the quality of their products. I've ordered this product 25 times! (See the pic) But sadly, I had to cancel my subscription immediately and my quest for a perfect fresh healthy seaweed mix from Korea starts all over again.. I am so disappointed! >.<

I really enjoy seaweed chips, and so I thought my palate was refined enough to eat this nutritious seaweed salad. It’s sadly too reminiscent of the time I nearly drowned in the ocean. The texture is slightly off-putting to me as well. I’m considering blending it into a soup, so I don’t waste it. Maybe with something spicy to cover the brine flavor.