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White Fungus, Benefits and a Few How-To

TasteHongKong — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:54:40 +0000

White fungus has many names: snow ear fungus, silver ear fungus, white wood ear, white tremella mushroom. And these names tell, it is a type of fungus also belonging to the mushroom family.
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Ginkgo Nuts

TasteHongKong — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:47:13 +0000

One saying suggests that eating ginkgo nuts, also called silver apricots (in Chinese 銀杏), can help keep our skins young and enable us to live longer. If this is true, then the nut might be a economical yet edible cosmetic.
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Golden Needle Vegetable

TasteHongKong — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:26:02 +0000

Although it has the word vegetable in its name, it is not vegetable but is the edible species of a flower’s bud. In Hong Kong, we call it gum jum choi (written as 金針菜 in Chinese), literally golden needle vegetable. In mainland China, it is more commonly known as yellow flower vegetable (pronounces as huang hua cai 黃花菜 in mandarin). On Wikipedia, I notice that this yellow flower is called daylily. (...)
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Job’s Tears aka Coix Seeds

TasteHongKong — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:09:46 +0000

Though Job’s Tears sometimes has been nicknamed as Chinese pearl barley, it is not a type of barley as you shall see in a picture below.(...)
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Chinese Preserved Sausage

TasteHongKong — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:12:03 +0000

This is to follow up my last post on Turnip Cake with Chinese Sausages, where I received a message from Patty of zomppa.com asking me to describe the Chinese sausage. So motivated to provide Patty with an organized piece of information, I am going to put up here a separate post on Chinese sausages, containing both my interpretations and some good quotes from the web.
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Water Chestnut

TasteHongKong — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:22:48 +0000

Do not misled by the name of water chestnut, it is not at all a member of the nut family but is about the size of a walnut. Water chestnuts (荸薺 or 馬蹄 in Chinese) are the knobby root of an aquatic plant that grow in areas also suitable for paddy fields. That is why they are widely found in China and South East Asia, where they are said to be planted between rice crops. Since harvesting of water chestnuts is pretty labor intensive, no doubt they are less common in regions of high costs of living like Japan and Australia though these affluent areas also grow abundant rice.
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