= Kimchi growth factor added to the Japanese diet: Hiroshi Mori =

Kimchi might be Japan’s missing growth factor according to a Japanese professor, one more reason for how kimchi wound up being increasingly consumed by the Japanese. An article in the Korean Herald came out addressing the noticeable disparity in average height differences between Koreans and Japanese. The article stems from the dietary research of a […]

= Kimuchi and Hanguo Pàocài, but why? =

Kimuchi and Hanguo Pàocài, but why? Korean 김치 kimchi spawns Japanese キムチ kimuchi vs. Chinese 泡菜 pàocài. Yet, if tsukemono and pàocài are so great, why don’t Japanese and Chinese promote and export their own ethnic food? Why appropriate Korean kimchi? Because kimchi apparently has become more appealing even to Japanese and Chinese than their […]