Bak kimchi (young bottle-gourd kimchi)Korea
Also called 박김치.
Bak kimchi is kimchi made from an unripe bottle gourd cut into small, flat, thin pieces.
- Cut the unripe gourd into thin flat pieces
- Make into kimchi
Burong mustasa (Filipino rice-water fermented mustard greens)Philippines
Also called burong mustasa, fermented mustard leaves, pickled flat mustard greens.
Flat-leaf mustard greens are wilted in the sun, rubbed with coarse salt and packed in a jar under the starchy water from cooking rice. Lactic acid bacteria, with acetic acid bacteria in the middle stage, sour the greens in about four to six days at room temperature.
- Wilt the greens in the sun1 h
- Mash the greens gently with salt
- Pack in a jar and pour on the strained rice water4–6 days
- Keep cool to develop the flavour10–13 °C
- Larcia L.L. II, Estacio R., Dalmacio L.M. 2011, Bacterial diversity in Philippine fermented mustard (burong mustasa) as revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis, Beneficial Microbes 2(4):263–271 (abstract via AGRIS)
- Tan Gana N.H., Lee K.C., Lee J.S., Monsalud R.G. 2018, Polyphasic identification of lactic acid bacteria from fermented mustard leaves (burong mustasa), UP REPS Inc. annual conference proceedings, pp. 28–29 (AGRIS record; no abstract)
- Merano V. 2018, Burong mustasa (pickled flat mustard greens), Panlasang Pinoy (home recipe)
Changzhou luobogan (Changzhou dried radish)Xinzha, Zhonglou District, Changzhou
Also called 常州萝卜干, 武进萝卜干, Changzhou dried turnip, Wujin radish.
Slices of the local red-skinned Xinzha radish are sun-dried until they lose about a third of their water, then salted in vats and turned again and again so the salt spreads and the packed radish does not heat up. It comes in sweet and salty kinds and is eaten crunchy with rice or fried into rice.
- Slice the radish around Lidong
- Sun-dry on bamboo trays or reed mats
- Salt in vats
- Turn the vats repeatedly