Pickled and preserved vegetables are signature dishes in Asian diet. You can find leafy veggies like mustard green, cabbage, or tubers such as daikon, bamboo shoots, and ginger. They are fermented or simply preserved in salt, brine, oil, or marinated in soy sauce. Pickles like kimchi, takuan, meicai, zhacai are versatile ingredients, which can be used as side dishes, in stir-fry or in stew.