Comments on: 夜雨吃春韭

By: readandeat

readandeat — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:04:51 +0000

lcl,

I call it chive too. I call scallion as scallion. Leek is a big scallion, stronger taste.

Hongkie At Large,

Oh, your comment is appreciated.

We don’t cook 大蒜 a lot at home. If you eat Peking roasted duck, you will eat with wraps with leek. Some people don’t like the strong taste.

It’s very scientific explanation of 韭黃. Thanks a lot!!! I almost forgot this term光合作用.

athrunz：

我幾乎忘了韭菜豬紅﹗﹗加點咖喱汁仲正﹗﹗

By: athrunz

athrunz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:43:13 +0000

韭菜陣味係好濃，不過我就非常鐘意食，例如韭菜餃、韭菜豬紅係我o既至愛！

記得有一次阿媽只係用熱水、少少熟油，將韭菜烚熟後就咁食，原來用最簡單o既煮法，都可以將韭菜整得好好食！

By: Hongkie At Large

Hongkie At Large — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:39:19 +0000

All of them – green onion, garlic chive, & leek – belong to the same plant family, though I’m not sure the category name (I think it’s called allium – onion & garlic also belong to this family). If you have a chance to see pictures of these crops, you’ll see they all look pretty much the same, with similar-looking flowers.

韭菜 = garlic chives/Chinese chives (Westerners like to eat another kind of chives that’s simply called chives. A common way to eat it is with salmon & cream cheese on bagels, or sprinkle on top of soups, just like we do with 蔥.)

蔥= green onion/scallion (I’ve seen some cook books called it spring onion.)

大蒜（廣東人叫大蒜，北方人另有稱號，但我忘了是甚麼）= leek

And the reason why 舊時種韭黃時要用糠麩掩埋韭籽，生出來的「韭菜」就會變黃, I think it has to do with photosynthesis: no light -> no photosynthesis -> no green pigmentation

Er, sorry for the long comment…

By: lcl

lcl — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:01:18 +0000

I just call those chives.
Green onion is scallion. I like to call it scallion.
Leek is like scallion on steroid. It’s so much bigger.

I guess they can be called differently.

By: readandeat

readandeat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:37:13 +0000

gwen：

不用客氣。

By: gwenzilla

gwenzilla — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:03:22 +0000

哦!是leek….leek is right!! thank you!!

By: readandeat

readandeat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:36 +0000

洛言：

我昨夜沒有吃餃子啊，我吃的是韭菜花炒瘦肉。

應該不是這篇。我有時間才去查書。

Gwen：

我查維基，英文有不同名稱：

garlic chives, Chinese chive, Chinese leek。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives

我在不是華人開的農場見過韭菜花的，但印象中只在華人的超市見過。

By: gwenzilla

gwenzilla — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:48:00 +0000

韭菜等不等於green onion? 樣子有點像, 但….我估不是… right? 就是妳的一句”得要去華人開的超市”令我相信這不是green onion.

By: 洛言

洛言 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:15:19 +0000

還好你是吃了這些餃子才看到我的留言，不然一定倒胃到極點。呵呵！

好，一煩到底，我上網找到朱熹的〈不自棄文〉，有「五行以性其性，五事以形其形，五典以教其教，五經以學其學。」我書讀得少，能記得的更少，這篇是之前沒讀過的，我不敢說是不是有關。（噢，不是「各X 其X」啊！）

http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/6607029.html

有時我看找不到出處的用詞，就試著以一般文字的字義去理解，看看是否解得通，否則寧願不用。

我知我的糾纏不清，已超出這個網誌和這篇文的範圍，再講只會令你不高興和令你趕客。再說一次﹕抱歉！

希望你有一天找到，會指正我。謝謝！

By: readandeat

readandeat — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:39:15 +0000

洛言：

謝謝指正﹗

關於「各X其X」，哪個才對，我只記得以前讀過一篇古文，裡面有「各形其形，各色(式?)其色(式?)」，「各X其X」一詞應是出自這裡，但手頭上沒有書，未能查證，所以暫時刪掉那詞，免生誤會了。有機會再講這個詞。

amo：

有。不過，我喜歡有肉有菜的，韭菜粿很大個，吃一個已很飽。

香港實在太多美食了。越講越想食。

若缺齋老人：

我通常會掃清桌上的食物的，除非太難吃。