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Illustrative light-purple, semi-solid fermented young taro-stalk preparation in a plain bowl; appearance based on JIRCAS, not an exact batch or safety claim.

Lam phueak dong

Thai pickle of young taro leaf stalks, salted, kneaded and held in rice-washing water in an earthen jar at room temperature. JIRCAS records it as a home-level product with no validated endpoint.

Thailand
Vegetables
Photograph of Spey chrourk.

Spey chrourk

Cambodian pickle of blanched Chinese mustard greens, dried, then packed in a sweet-salt brine. Sold in Phnom Penh markets and made at home. The readiness times in the home recipe are not validated.

Phnom Penh
Vegetables
Whole mature purple-black Greek olives in clear brine in a glass jar, with a small bowl of olives beside it.
Elevated risk

Greek-style black olives in brine

Ripe olives go straight into brine with no lye and cure for months, mostly by yeasts. The home method here is the University of California two-stage brine.

Peloponnese and Central Greece · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Photograph of Yeolmu kimchi.

Yeolmu kimchi

Korean kimchi of young summer radish and its tender leaves, salted, seasoned with chili and aromatics, and held in a container. Water kimchi is a separate form with its own page, veg-0011.

South Korea
Vegetables
Finished Sagohachi-zuke: cucumber, carrot and daikon coated with cooked rice and rice-koji grains from the Fukushima regional pickle.

Sagohachi-zuke

A traditional Japanese koji pickle from the Tohoku region: vegetables pickled in a matured bed of cooked rice, rice koji and salt, where koji enzymes bring sweetness alongside the salt.

Nihonmatsu · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Cooked kocho flatbread made from fermented enset, with a dense fibrous crumb and browned griddle surface on an enset leaf.
Elevated risk

Kocho

Ethiopia's fermented enset staple: the scraped leaf sheaths and pounded corm of Ensete ventricosum packed into a leaf-lined pit, where lactic fermentation turns them into a sour mass that keeps and is later baked as flatbread.

Southern Ethiopia · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Illustrative finished Sicilian-style green brine olives: whole muted green olives submerged in pale brine, with a few served in a plain bowl.
Elevated risk

Sicilian-style green brine olives

Green-ripe olives are fermented in seasoned, vinegar-adjusted brine; UC ANR gives size-dependent salt concentrations and multi-month handling.

Traditional method
· Vegetables
Thin slices of amber-brown smoked daikon pickle on a ceramic plate, with a whole iburigakko behind.

Iburigakko

Iburigakko is Akita pickled daikon dried with smoke before it is fermented in rice bran.

Akita Prefecture · Traditional method
Vegetables