Eating in China
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Spinach

菠菜Bōcài

A leaf vegetable with stalked, often triangular or arrow-shaped leaves.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

A leaf vegetable with stalked, often triangular or arrow-shaped leaves.

In the kitchen

Blanched for Yanbian bibimbap.

Leaf form varies; blanched leaves are used in one Yanbian bibimbap preparation.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有菠菜吗?

Does this dish contain Spinach?

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