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Selecting Chinese vegetables
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Written by Wei-Jing Zhu
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To share with others the tricks on veggie selection. An on-going
article. Please contribute via your comments (once I have added the
comment module).
Chinese Brocolli 芥兰, Chinese Vegetable 菜心: avoid the over-grown
ones with flowers. Look at the bottom of the stem or trunk: solid white
means over-grown. Good ones should appear entirely translucent green.
Similarly avoid white stems in Open Heart Vegetable 通心菜.
Bitter Melon 苦瓜: The key feature to look for is broad stripes. The wider each "vein" the more tender and better the melon.
Hairy Melon 毛瓜: Don't get the big ones. The smaller and thinner ones are younger and more tender.
Si Melon 丝瓜: also, the thinner means younger and tender.
Lotus roots 莲藕: go for short yet wide (stout) segments.
Watermelon 西瓜: tap to hear the sound. The lower the pitch, the more
water and hence better it is. (A friend with a big tummy says that he
search for the best melon by tapping both the melon and his stomach, to
look for similar sound.)
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