Perhaps the best-known Korean food is kimch'i. It is served at every meal. though it most often refers to a spicy cabbage mixture, kimch'i is actually a generic term for any seasoned and fermented vegetable dish -- with cabbage, turnip, radish or cucumber and sometimes fish as the main ingredients. It is a mixture of crushed red pepper, garlic, salt, water and the vegetable they are using.
This is cabbage kimch'i
This woman is making kimch'i. The bucket on her right is full of red pepper flakes (very hot) that she is liberally adding to the cabbage in her tub.
Here are the pots in which kimch'i is placed to ferment for at least a few months.
