Ingredients

For salting cabbage

• 6 pounds (about 2.7 kg) napa cabbage
• ½ cup Kosher salt (2.5 ounces: 72 grams)

For making porridge

• 2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons sweet rice flour (aka glutinous rice flour)
• 2 tablespoons Turbinado sugar (or brown or white sugar)

Vegetables

• 2 cups Korean radish matchsticks (or daikon radish)
• 1 cup carrot matchsticks
• 7 to 8 green onions (scallions), chopped
• 1 cup chopped Asian chives (buchu), optional (substitute with 3 green onions, chopped)
• 1 cup water dropwort (minari), optional

Seasonings and spices:

• ½ cup garlic cloves (24 garlic cloves), minced
• 2 teaspoon ginger, minced
• 1 medium onion, minced
• ½ cup fish sauce