Eating in China
Generated guide illustration of chinese cabbage.

Chinese cabbage

白菜Báicài

Overlapping leaves form a head; outer leaves are green with pale leaf stalks.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Overlapping leaves form a head; outer leaves are green with pale leaf stalks.

In the kitchen

Combined with pork in Xinxingyuan steamed dumplings.

Different cultivars have pale-green, yellow or orange inner leaves.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有白菜吗?

Does this dish contain Chinese cabbage?

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