Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: fresh yellow Chinese chives with pale bases and long narrow yellow leaves.

Yellow Chinese chives

韭黄Jiǔhuáng

Pale yellow Chinese chives produced by growing the plant with light excluded.

Type
Vegetables

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Pale yellow Chinese chives produced by growing the plant with light excluded.

In the kitchen

An aromatic vegetable added to Neijiang beef noodles.

The same plant as green Chinese chives, but deliberately blanched during cultivation; this is not merely a sliced or chopped form.

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