Asian Vegetable Experts, what is this?
Now that sleevendog has gotten me addicted to Li ZiQi's channel, I just can't stop watching those gorgeous videos. But I don't have any idea of what the vegetable is that she prepares in the latest one:
It was a good-sized plant with mustardy looking leaves, but she rips those off and gives them to the geese and just prepares the big bumpity stem. A lot of people have been asking in the youtube comments but no answer yet, and I looked through everything I could find online without coming up with anything.
From the way it's prepared I would guess it might be a relative of kohlrabi, but that's totally guessing. Anyone familiar with this? I never saw it in the markets in Beijing, but I know there are several vegetables that seem to be unique to Sichuan.
Link to video if anyone wants to see more:
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThanks, gardengal, but I don't think so. I grow that and the stems never bulk up like that, at least not on what I've grown--it's all about the leaves, not about discarding those, anymore than you would discard the leaves on bok choy.
Mine has been single-stemmed--one or two leaves per stem. Is there another variety that grows more stalk than leaves and all the leaves directly from one bulky stem? Gai choi is chicken cabbage, right?
ETA This isn't mine (the dratted agama lizards are playing havoc with my vegetable garden this year) but this is what I know as gai choi--not that far from gai lan in the way it grows:
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