ZhuFuPing

(Teacher Chen Yikui)

Question: Western medicine says that kimchi is not good for the liver, and people are told not to eat it, but the teacher says that kimchi is raw vegetables, which is nutritious and can be eaten. From the perspective of western medicine, does it mean that kimchi is pickled and should not be eaten?

Answer: You are right in saying this. Let me tell you that the debate on kimchi, including pickles, has been debated for two thousand years. In the past, pickles made in the Chinese probably had to be fermented and moldy. The mold would grow so long, and then sieve it with a rice sieve, stir it with salt water, and then use a broken tripod to cover it on the tank and put it under the sun at high temperature. The whole fermentation is a process.

In my grandma's time, even before the Japanese came to Taiwan, they were very mature. Taiwanese people first discovered that black beans were the only ones that didn't need to be very salty and would not go bad. So when we used to make something, when we were afraid that it would be spoiled, we used black beans as something like antisepsis. It was delicious but expensive. The process of making black beans antiseptic was very valuable. So when the Japanese came, the Japanese were smarter. Don’t know how use gluten to ferment. The fermentation is white, and it is added with carbon black. The caramel is called Jiaowu. This is how X made money. When the Japanese surrendered and went back in the 34th year of the Republic of China, in the old calendar year of the 35th year of the Republic of China, there was Guai X Wan soy sauce. The traditional markets in Taiwan used tea buckets one by one, and bamboo circles beside the buckets. Well, it was earned at that time, he made it from that, he thinks how can this barrel be worth NT$25, it’s impossible, you have to really use black beans to make it, you can’t do it without 2,000 yuan, and it’s 25 yuan ! He sold 25 yuan and already earned 20 yuan. It started like this. In the forty years of the Republic of China, it went out. Everyone made soy sauce, but he stopped doing it. He did insurance and construction.

There are often very good things, you have to keep the original taste, how to deal with it, sometimes it is difficult, the economic value is too high, as we are talking about now, if you look at the menu of the desk, the first platter is lobster and abalone, great! A bottle of abalone is more than 2,000 yuan, and the lobster abalone is brought out and bitten to know that it is Chilean abalone not Mexican abalone. A can of Mexican abalone is more than 2,000 yuan, and a can of Chilean abalone is 250 yuan.

So your question is very good, then western medicine thinks it is a pickle, if it doesn’t work, Koreans don’t have kimchi, they live more painful than Taiwanese, but they die less than Taiwanese in the end, Koreans eat kimchi either two meals or three meals, at least one meal out of three meals, but their patients are one-tenth of ours.

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