Eating in China
Edible mushrooms

Edible mushrooms

食用蘑菇Shíyòng mógu

A broad food ingredient category for edible mushrooms when a recipe does not specify the species.

Type
Mushrooms

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Includes cultivated food mushrooms; species differ in appearance and texture. The image illustrates examples, not a fixed mixture.

In the kitchen

Fresh mushrooms are used in the pork filling of Luoyang Xiaojie potstickers.

The mushroom species and proportion depend on the recipe. This category does not identify wild mushrooms or establish that an unknown mushroom is edible.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有食用蘑菇吗?

Does this dish contain Edible mushrooms?

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