How to make kimchi using napa cabbage (Chinese cabbage), a staple vegetable for kimchi is:
first, pickle napa with salt; combine ingredients for seasoning such as salted and fermented shrimp or squid, garlic, ginger, Chinese chive, apple, red hot chili, salt and sugar;
fill the combined seasoning between each layer of the napa leaves; leave the seasoned napa in the sealed container more than overnight.
Thus, napa kimchi is a dish making the most of umami in the vegetable and the fermented products in the seasonings.