daai6 gaai3 coi3大芥菜
Jyutpingdaai6 gaai3 coi3
Yaledaaih gaai choi
Definition
Big mustard greens (Brassica juncea), a type of leaf vegetable.
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How it's used
Often associated with home cooking and traditional soups, this vegetable is prized for its distinctively bitter and pungent profile. It is frequently paired with pork bones or preserved meats to balance the bitterness. Unlike milder leafy greens, it requires longer cooking times to soften the fibrous texture.
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fo2棵fóExamples
This big mustard green is quite bitter, are you used to eating it?
We are making big mustard green soup tonight, it will taste better if you add more ginger.
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 小芥菜, which is much smaller and often used in stir-fries. The two have different textures and culinary applications, so they are rarely interchangeable in recipes.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
