Eating in China
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Soybean sprouts

黄豆芽Huáng dòuyá

Sprouted soybeans with stout shoots and prominent yellow seed halves.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Sprouted soybeans with stout shoots and prominent yellow seed halves.

In the kitchen

Blanched for Yanbian bibimbap.

Mung-bean sprouts are slimmer, with smaller pale-green seed halves.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有黄豆芽吗?

Does this dish contain Soybean sprouts?

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