>>23933248Kimchi is overrated. Natto has the good vitamin k, and lots of it. Its a super food that gives you an important source of a critical vitamin that most other foods lack. However natto does taste like shit. So if you're going to eat kimchi or natto, you may as well eat the one that actually gives you health benefits.
>>23933283In all honesty the good food you had was likely hybridized recipes. They've had a major cultural makeover. They quietly changed tastes, ingredients, and even food arrangements and decorations where there were previously none, thanks to cooks training in the west. That isn't necessarily something bad, but they hide it and pretend their food was always that way. Its very deceptive.