Eating in China
Fresh garlic-chive flowers

Fresh garlic-chive flowers

鲜韭菜花Xiān jiǔcài huā

Fresh flower buds and blooms of garlic chives, with a distinctive chive aroma.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Small green buds open into white flowers in clusters on slender stalks.

In the kitchen

Used as an aromatic ingredient in cooked dishes.

This entry covers fresh flowers, not leafy chives or salted chive-flower paste.

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这道菜里有鲜韭菜花吗?

Does this dish contain Fresh garlic-chive flowers?

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