At the Market – Vegetables Posted by sasha on Aug 8, 2013 in Culture, Vocabulary
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About the Author: sasha
Sasha is an English teacher, writer, photographer, and videographer from the great state of Michigan. Upon graduating from Michigan State University, he moved to China and spent 5+ years living, working, studying, and traveling there. He also studied Indonesian Language & Culture in Bali for a year. He and his wife run the travel blog Grateful Gypsies, and they're currently trying the digital nomad lifestyle across Latin America.
Comments:
Peter Simon:
Hi, really important. But funnily enough, this was the first, so probably the easiest thing to learn as a beginner in China. You just go out, point and listen what they say, consult a friend perhaps, and voila! I know most fruits and vegetables at the market. No kidding! But the ‘dou’ in the picture is not beans, it’s something the Indians would call yellow lentils, and I think in English they’re yellow half-peas. Hungarians call them almost the same as that (without the ‘half’). Definitely not beans! Try making ‘doufu’ out of them 😉
Mike Stalder:
I didn’t see On Cai (water spinach) on that list. I could get it in California, ate it all the time in Nanning, Guangxi, but can’t seem to find it here in Florida.
Malcolm:
Minor comment: pity the table is an image and not text.
Here are a few more – all veg that are fairly common in the UK; I suppose most are less common in China.
Leek 韭葱 – same as chives! Also called 扁葱.
Turnip 萝卜 as for radishes,
parsnip 欧洲防风 or 欧洲萝卜,
artichoke 洋蓟
yángjì,
Jerusalem artichoke 洋姜 yángjiāng
Garlic 大蒜 dàsuàn
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sasha:
@Malcolm Thanks for the extra vocabulary words, Malcolm! In these older posts I made the vocab charts in Word and added them as photos because it was the best way to have it look clear. You’ll notice in more recent posts that the vocabulary lists are charts in the blog post that can be copied and pasted.