Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: a fresh green bell pepper and a cut half showing its hollow interior.

Bell pepper

甜椒Tiánjiāo

A sweet, thick-walled pepper used as a vegetable.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Look for a hollow, blocky or oblong sweet pepper with thick walls. Bell peppers come in green, red, yellow and other colors; they are distinct from hot chilies.

In the kitchen

Sections are stuffed with fish paste and pan-fried for Hong Kong-style three stuffed treasures.

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这道菜里有甜椒吗?

Does this dish contain Bell pepper?

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