[Sca-cooks] English word for Chinese vegetable/herb

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Jul 23 07:51:28 PDT 2008


On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Sharon Gordon wrote:

> I am looking for the English word for a Chinese vegetable or herb.   
> It's low
> growing with small leaves.  It's usually eaten in the spring.  A  
> stem of it
> is similar in size to a stem of one of the smaller leafed basils  
> such as
> lemon basil, but the stem is more slender and more round.  Stem and  
> leaves
> are a dark green.
>
>
>
> In Mandarin the name of the plant sounds sort of like
>
> My-ah-lie or My-yuh-lie
>
>
>
> Any ideas for the English or Latin name?


This isn't ringing a bell for me...

Maybe it's among the plants listed here?:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/herbchin.htm

Is it a flavoring herb, or eaten as a vegetable? Can you compare it to  
another herb/vegetable?

Adamantius




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