[Grammar] Kimchi: side dish or side dishes

[naweewra]

Hello,

There are many kinds of kimchi. So should we say:

a) Koreans eat this vegetable side dish with every meal.

OR

b) Koreans eat these vegetable side dishes with every meal.

Thank you.

Nawee

 

[MikeNewYork]

If it is one side dish, use the first; if it is more than one side dish, use the second.

 

[Champleon]

I'm not a Forum teacher.

I should like, If I may, Mr. naweewra, to suggest this sentence to you: Koreans usually eat a new variety of kimchi, as a side dish, with every meal.
The sentence puts emphasis on the wide variety of kimchi.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

That would make for an enormous number of different types of kimchi, don't you think? Over a thousand a year at a conservative estimate!

 

[MikeNewYork]

Instead of "a new variety" one could say "one of the many varieties".