I recently have acquired access to a wealth of chinese vegetables, in fact I guess you could say that I'm now help at a chinese grocery. I am familiar with much of the produce but now that I get to dwelve into it all I realize I hardly know squat about nuttin. First I'd like to find some info on juicing Chinese and Asian produce. Unfortunately everybody but me understands chinese and most things get hung up in translation. It's pretty bad when I can't ask the people that actually know because I wouldn't understand anyway (flipper). So has anybody a link to charted info and recipes. I'm not really interested in health info, but would really appreciate info on tasty combinations. When I was in Asia I was mighty fond of all the tea extracts, soy milk and juice combos, but it doesn't seem like anybody's put out the book yet..
Taro, Lotus Root, bitter melon, Fuzzy Squash, Luffa, Pumelo, Jicama and a complete list would be quite lengthy.
Taro, Lotus Root, bitter melon, Fuzzy Squash, Luffa, Pumelo, Jicama and a complete list would be quite lengthy.
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Re: Help I'm being held prisioner in a Chinese Grocery.
Sat, February 2, 2008 - 9:05 AMpomelo + green apple + fresh ginger makes an awesome juicing combo!
pomelo is like a grapefruit, with more pith.
lots of green chinese veggies are in the cabbage family, so if you juice them, drink them right away, because they turn funky fast. I don't think I'd juice taro, luffa, lotus or bitter melon, but who knows maybe you're onto something!
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Re: Help I'm being held prisioner in a Chinese Grocery.
Mon, February 4, 2008 - 12:35 AMok, I'll probably only try this once a week, cause I got a couple of other food things I'm working on...
Not sure if anyone can get some useful info from this
Great- jicama, chinese broccoli, daikon (small amount), Pea shoots
Good- Bitter Melon, Fuzzy Melon (cheet gwa), Chinese Celery (kun choi), Green Papaya (Mook gwa), Arrowhead, Watercress
Not-Taro, Arrow root, Burdock (I know I coulda figured before trying)
Some of what I was using was hydroponically grown which is fine but it had a very fine sand that when you try and wash off actually just seems to go beneath the surface skin. So I ended up with some grit (???)
Asian folks who saw what I was doing really didn't seem to like the idea at all. In fact the notion of setting up an instore juicing capability was pretty much ruled out. I can't say that I know the reason. They had some specific sort of notion that it wasn't good. Although I can see they are big on plant extracts and have these amazing herbal sets which are all about nutritional combinations of this and that (dried tho).
One question I have, what is the nutritional loss of soy in powdered form in compared to in processed milk form, kinda seems there wouldn't be that much, anyone know? -
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Re: Help I'm being held prisioner in a Chinese Grocery.
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 10:09 PMok after being held all this time in the store for some time now it looks like they might just trust me enough to be their captive blogger. I actually set up a grocery store blog and yes, it is pretty boring. Bubble Tea instructions in english. However I had a go at more juicing and discovered more favorites. Yams almost seem to blow carrots away, nice orange sweet taste like the carrots but better. Jicama is truly a mellow taste and you can mix and match it with most things. Green Papaya is great as as either a base for fruits or vegetable drinks, very good. Fuzzy melon is also a versatile, I like it better than cucumber...altho it would be great in summer, not so good for winter. Another thing I thought was great was to use congee or another porridge as a base as an alternative to soy milk, which can be a bit expensive.
Has anyone used the multitude of cereal powders available. Yeah, this might be a bad matter of altered products, but isn't that the problem here too? -
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Re: Help I'm being held prisioner in a Chinese Grocery.
Sun, March 9, 2008 - 9:03 AMI've been living in Hanoi for 7 months and have a juicer. Thanks for your suggestions, I will totally try them since I'm here and I know where to get the things you mentioned. My friends have this Japanese Green powder cereal. They had hot water and some museli or grapenuts to it for morning cereal. I tasted it today...not bad. Sorry, I don't recall the brand name, but I think they got it in the U.S. when they were visiting.
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