Bitter gourd is a vegetable that is tender green and long with seeds in the middle and is very juicy with a bitter taste. Hence its name bitter gourd. If it is over-mature it will become a yellow/red colour and less bitter. Bitter gourd is very popular in many dishes in Southern China and South [...]
I remember a special dish called “Dong gua zhong” winter-melon pot, which is very popular in Kan Tong South of China. Nearly 30 years ago, I visited this place when it was during a hot and damp season. Local people would eat winter-melon pot all the time to balance the body against the hot and [...]
When you walk along the Perth streets, you can often see trees full of lemons with branches leaning over fences; some of the lemons you can reach. Lemon trees are one of the most popular trees in Perth. In perth, lemon trees are easily grown, therefore many people grow lemon trees in their front and [...]
In China, mung beans are very popular to eat especially in the hot summer months. Most families in China eat mung beans and use them widely in different recipes, such as mung bean noodles, mung bean cake, mung bean rice, mung bean soup, mung bean desserts and even mung bean wine. They are also commonly [...]
