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Finding your way in Asian supermarkets isn’t always easy, with all its strange looking products and incomprehensible labels. With this site I want to offer a helping hand, provide information on...
View ArticleSuan Cai (Chinese sauerkraut)
What’s it called? Chinese sauerkraut, Chinese kimchi, pickled Mustard Greens, dưa chua (Vietnam), swan tsai / suān cài / 酸菜 (literally: sour vegetablesn) or xián cài / 鹹菜 (literally: salted vegetables)...
View ArticleYa Cai (Sichuan pickled mustard greens)
What´s it called? Ya cai / 芽菜, suimi ya cai, preserved mustard greens from Sichuan, Sichuan pickled mustard cabbage. What is it? The pickled leaves of a mustard plant variety “guang gan qing cai”, only...
View ArticleZha Cai (Sichuan Preserved Vegetable)
What’s it called Sichuan preserved vegetable, Szechwan vegetable, Chinese pickled vegetable, pickled mustard tuber, zha cai / zhàcài / 榨菜 (China). Also: tsa tsai / jar choy / jar choi / ja choi / ja...
View ArticleTianjin Preserved Vegetables
What’s it called? Tianjin preserved vegetable, Tianjin preserved cabbage, Tientsin preserved vegetable, Tianjin winter vegetable, Tiānjīn dōngcài / 天津冬菜 (China), tang chai (Thailand). What is it?...
View ArticleRed Rice Yeast
What’s it called? Red rice yeast / red yeast rice / red fermented rice / red rice koji / akakoji (EN), anka / ang-kak (Indonesia), hong-gug / 홍국 (Korea), hóng qú mǐ / hung kuk mai / 红曲米 (China) What …...
View ArticleCha-om (Acacia leaves)
What’s it called? Acacia leaf, climbing wattle, stinky leaf, Acacia pennata / Senegalia pennata (L), cha-om / ชะอม (Thailand), su pout ywet (Birma), khang (India). What is it? Cha-om are the young...
View ArticleWatermelon Radish
What’s it called? Watermelon radish, Japanese radish, Chinese radish, watermelon daikon, Asian red meat radish, beauty heart radish, roseheart radish, misato rose radish, Raphanus sativus L. ‘Red...
View ArticleKing Oyster Mushroom
What’s it called? King oyster mushroom, king trumpet mushroom, king brown mushroom, french horn mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale, Pleurotus eryngii (L). Cardoncello (Italy),...
View ArticleSoursop (guanabana)
What’s it called? Soursop, guanábana, graviola, soursapi, Brazilian pawpaw, prickly custard apple, Annona muricata (L). Mãng cầu Xiêm / mãng cầu ga (Vietnam), thurian-thet / thurian-khaek / rian-nam...
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