Friday, September 26, 2014

Something I Learnt A While Back

Wanted to have a hot pot today and I asked mom to get a few bunches of this pungent leafy vegetable called "Tang Orh". When I was younger, I only saw this vegetable on the menu during the Lunar New Year reunion dinners, or only get two leaves (it is that rare) in a bowl of liver soup from the Bak Kut Teh stall. It has a slight antiseptic pungency to it and I guess it probably helped with the bloody offal flavour of the liver. 

Recently, NTUC has been stocking quite a bit of it regularly on their shelves, but it is apparently a Japanese breed which is quite thin and looks a little more delicate than the ones I was used to. It tasted just as good though, and that was more important anyway. 

While in Australia, I found that they had the opposite, a giant compared to the Japanese ones. Seems like everything in Australia was bigger. It was also in Australia that I realised, while walking through Bunnings, that it was called Garland Chrysanthemum. 

Now I've got some seeds and I wonder how big mine will end up. 

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