What is "kimchi"

1898, from Korean.

n. 1 A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation. 2 (context slang ethnic slur pejorative English) A Korean person.

Kimchi (, ; ), also spelled kimchee or gimchi, is a traditional fermented Korean side dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. In traditional preparations, kimchi was stored underground in jars to keep cool during the summer months and unfrozen during the winter months. There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made from napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber as the main ingredients.

Kimchi may refer to:

• Kimchi, Korean pickled vegetables
• Kimhi, surname
• Kimchi (software), a web management tool to manage KVM infrastructure
• Kimchi, an ethnic slur used for a Korean.
• Kim Chi, a contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race (season 8)

Kimchi is a web management tool to manage Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) infrastructure. Developed with HTML5, Kimchi is developed to intuitively manage KVM guests, create storage pools, manage network interfaces (bridges, vlans, NAT), and perform other related tasks.