This adorable Google Doodle is an ode to kimchi

Eat a whole jar to yourself today, kimchi fiends.

It’s “Kimchi Day” in Korea, so Google’s published a Doodle dedicated to the ingredients that go into making the tangy fermented treat.

You can spot the essentials in the Doodle: cabbage, red pepper flakes, ginger, garlic, fish sauce, green onion, carrot, radish, rice flour, and salt. They’re ingredients you use to ferment kimchi in an onggi (clay pot). Of course, there are hundreds of regional recipes for kimchi, so this is just a general idea.

So what’s “Kimchi Day?” According to Google, it’s the day when salting kimchi helps the dish hit peak flavour potential, after you’ve pickled the cabbage, stuffed it with radish and chili powder, alongside ingredients like dropwort, mustard leaves or fermented shrimp, then stored to ferment. Read more…

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