Eating in China
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Choy sum

菜心Càixīn

A leafy vegetable grown for its tender flowering stalks and leaves. It has a mild, slightly sweet flavour.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Slender stalks carry green leaves and sometimes small yellow flowers. The stalks are part of the edible vegetable.

In the kitchen

Quickly stir-fried with garlic or other aromatics.

Cultivars vary in stalk colour and size. Choy sum is kept distinct here from bok choy and gai lan.

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