Eating in China
Fresh fish mint with pale jointed rhizomes and fine roots attached to heart-shaped green leaves.

Fish mint

折耳根Zhé’ěrgēn

An aromatic plant with heart-shaped leaves, spreading underground stems and a fishy smell when its leaves are rubbed.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

An aromatic plant with heart-shaped leaves, spreading underground stems and a fishy smell when its leaves are rubbed.

In the kitchen

Grilled tofu pockets.

Guizhou cooking uses the pungent underground part commonly called a root; this is the part used in tofu pockets, rather than arbitrary leaves.

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这道菜里有折耳根吗?

Does this dish contain Fish mint?

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