Making Kimchi

A couple of weeks ago, our director Glen invited us to her house to take part in the annual event of making Kimchi. Kimchi is the korean national dish which is made from cabbage immersed in a spicy paste and pickled. Koreans eat Kimchi with pretty much every meal, everyday and we were to make enough to last Glen's family a year! They even had seperate fridges to keep it in dotted all over their apartment.
So, together with Glen, her husband, her sister in law, and mother in law we all sat in the living room on special mats and started the process. We each had a bowl and with plastic gloves we would scoop a huge bit of red paste into our bowl, grab a cabbage and proceed to cover each individual leaf. Sitting cross-legged on the floor while doing this soon became very hard work, but while Nina coped with the pressure easily, Ed found the pins and needles too much and was demoted to playing with the children. They were introduced to a camera, which seemed to absolutely amaze them.

Our finished product was 18 boxes and as a thank you (to Nina) for helping out, we were given our very own box of Kimchi which we think will last us the year too!