20050705

Rain.

For today, just stir-fried chicken and 小白菜/チンゲンサイ/pak choi. Turned out so-so.

Pak choi belongs to the Brassica family, which includes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, choy sum, etc. etc. etc. Anyway, to be more specific, bak choi, chinese cabbage (大白菜/はくさい) and quite a few others all belong to the same species Brassica campestris. Of course, all this information is suspect since there is a lot of confusion over vegetable species. So many of them are simply varieties of the same species, add to that the presence of hybrids and it's hard to classify them properly.