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5
A CHINESE VEGETABLE POTPOURRI
By dictionary definition, a potpourri is a miscellaneous collection.
This chapter contains
the Chinese vegetables that don't fit into the other groups. Some of these vegetables are
familiar, so you'll find it all the more interesting to discover what the Chinese varieties
are like. You can grow them happily side by side with the old familiar varieties and have
East meet West right in your own garden and kitchen.
Burdock
N
GAO
P
ONG
, N
IU
P
ANG
Arctium lappa
(color photo, page xiii)
If you think of burdock as that bothersome weed with the prickly burrs, you may wonder
what it's doing in a book on Chinese vegetables. As a vegetable, you may be more fa-
miliar with it by its Japanese name,
gobo.
As gobo, it is an important and much enjoyed
Japanese vegetable, lending itself to a number of classic dishes.
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