her mother owns a popular korean restaurant in garden grove, california and she's been there since 1989. >> all this pressure. >> reporter: since she was a small child, lauren's mother has warned her, never share kim chi with non-koreans. >> they cannot adjust to eating. it's not good. >> while this cabbage dish is a staple in many korean families, its pungent aroma can be off putting for people who didn't grow up with it. i have mother-in-law's kim chi and a vegan recipe. >> that's why it's ironic several years later lauren has built a successful business producing kim chi and sells it at whole foods and grocery stores. >> they will look at me, that's odd, wise she serving kim chi to non-koreans. >> that's how lauren thought about kim chi, too, until five years ago when she lost her job as a high end wine promoter. >> when the financial downturn hit and i lost my marketing job, instead of looking for the next marketing job in another company, i thought it was the right opportunity to go into business for myself. >> she realized she could useun and cheese market to introduce kim chi to