But there are other specialities in the town too, among them the yellow soup and a delicious cabbage dish.

One of the bazaar's most exotic offerings is the spicy Korean cabbage dish called kimchee.

That night, when the cabbage dish was served, we could actually see the traces of precious oil floating in the sauce!

On a humbler level, one of my favorite cabbage dishes is colcannon, which my Irish grandmother used to make when I was a child.

It took three research institutes several years and millions of dollars to create a version of the fermented cabbage dish that was suitable for space travel.

Bae Kan Sun, a 67-year-old retired seamstress, asked over a dinner in her comfortable two-bedroom apartment where vodka washed down kimchi, the Korean cabbage dish.

In what form, however, is unclear, and as Michnik seeks to define the cabbage dish, he is transformed into a dervish.

It's a pickled cabbage dish that's very popular in Korea.

Savory is also a key ingredient in sarmale, a stuffed cabbage dish in traditional Romanian cuisine.

Next will be a variety or warm and cold meats, such as sausages, fried meatballs, boiled ham, and liver pâté, served with red or green braised cabbage dishes.