Blog Tag - vegetables
Preparation for the winter hibernation period has begun, a time when Beijingers keep themselves busy purchasing goods for the long cold months to...
It all began with a photo of thriving garlic sprouts that my colleague had grown on her window sill from store-bought garlic cloves. She, in turn,...
Talks of a possible lockdown have led many among us to stock up on some essentials such as fresh vegetables, however what happens if there is no...
Spoiled by technology and the marvels of modern agriculture, nowadays you can find almost every type of produce all year round in the supermarket, be...
Unless you’re a far keener Chinese student than me, the prospect of hunkering down to study vocabulary for vegetables is anything but appetizing....
Beijing is not the thoroughly arid, entirely polluted concrete wasteland that so many of us are prone to dismiss it as during its drawn-out winters....
As westerners turn to apples and pumpkins in October, a little-known Chinese crop is coming into season: jiaobai (茭白), also known as wild rice stem...