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| Chinese Ingredients
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Bananas |
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China has three types of bananas, and they are
regarded as being different fruit with different
names!
The curved version all westerners are familiar
with is the most expensive, although still very
reasonably priced. It is the sweetest of the three
and is called 'Heurng d'Zhu' in Cantonese; meaning
good smell fruit.
The other two refer to the ones probably banned
by Europe, these being straight and of a chunkier
nature. These come in two sizes and are different
to the extent that you cannot let small ones grow
as they will not become big ones. Similarly you
cannot pick large ones early to replicate the
smaller version, as the fruit will still be green
and inedible.
The large one is called 'Dai d'Zhu' and the small
one is called 'Siu d'Zhu'. 'dai' and 'siu' are
Cantonese meaning large and small respectively.
In Mandarin this would be 'Da' and 'Xiao'. These
fruit also have slightly different tastes, and
neither are as sweet at the curved ones we are
so used to seeing.
Chinese often buy these when either green or brown,
and they peel them from the tip, not by breaking
the stem as most westerners do. |
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