What is kimchi?

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What is kimchi?

Answer 1

Kimchis a traditional Korean fermented dish made of some select vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety. Kimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew and kimchi fried rice.

Answer 2

Korean spicy pickled vegetable. try some, its good.

Answer 3

korean rotten spicy cabbage, its pretty good

Answer 4

Fermented vegetables...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi

Answer 5

fermented vegetables equals to pickles in other countries, kimchi is actually doesn't contain as many spices as today, and actually the color is white until 1500s thay started to add more and more spice like chilli or pepper, I love kimchi

Answer 6

Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, is a traditional Korean fermented dish made of some select vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety. Kimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew

Answer 7

Kimchi is a Korean appesitser Japanese and Chinese people like it also.  It is primarily made of cabbage and lots of spices.  Check out the recipe below.  Kimchi is good for you.

Answer 8

It is a fermented  Napa cabbage in spices and vinegar it has a very strong scents that will knock you off.

Answer 9

Korean apps made from cabbage and chili that is left to ferment for days.  Terribly spicy and stinky but sure tastes great.

Answer 10

Spicy, fermented cabbage and it is native to Korea.

Answer 11

Since "what it is has pretty much been answered" let me add that the way I was introduced to it (by someone who had traveled across Asia) was straight out of the jar on top of some steamed Brussels sprouts and asian buck wheat noodles.

  

Fairly light and yummy

Answer 12

I am a former chef and eat alot of prepared "Kimchee" and TaraTot is the most correct, any veg pickeld with the same type of spices and fermented to the point were tender are consider a Kimchee veg, at most good restauants in a Korean restaurants you will get a number of different one, cabbage daikon radish, leeks, bitter greens, potatos and even ones with dried fish or shrimp, sort of an appetizer before the meal.

I go to several Korean Restaurants here in Toronto Canada and have lunch or dinner were they offer these dishes, they great with mains like bim-bi-bap or bul-go-ghi even pork bone soup tastes better with them.

Answer 13

Mostly cabbage and a staple in Korean cuisine.  There are many different recipes for it.

Answer 14

i dont know, but i know what chi bai is :P lol

Answer 15

Korean sauerkraut

Answer 16

fermented vegetables , basically Korean version of pickles.  The most popular or common kimchee is with cabbage.  So same idea as German sauerkraut but a different flavor.

Answer 17

Spicy chinese cabbage that is pickled with other vegetables.