Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: fresh mung bean sprouts with crisp pale stems, small seed leaves and fine roots.

Bean sprouts

芽菜Yácài

Fresh sprouted beans with crisp stems, stir-fried with noodles.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Fresh sprouted beans with crisp stems, stir-fried with noodles.

In the kitchen

Beef chow fun.

One beef chow fun preparation uses mung bean sprouts; this does not mean every Guangdong version does. These are not preserved Sichuan ya cai.

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这道菜里有芽菜吗?

Does this dish contain Bean sprouts?

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