{"id":16881,"date":"2022-02-03T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16881"},"modified":"2022-02-10T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:10:03","slug":"cooking-with-canned-water-chestnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16881","title":{"rendered":"Cooking with Canned Water Chestnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_0693-edited-2-1440-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sticking with Chinese home cookin\u2019 for the Lunar New Year (so I used sticky rice \ud83d\ude43), this dish was cobbled together from hyperlocal sources: bok choy, leeks, and red bell pepper from my previous trip to the supermarket, <em>lap cheong <\/em>(Chinese sausage) ever-present in my freezer, and canned water chestnuts from the pantry.<\/p>\n<p>Some advice about cooking with canned water chestnuts: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t do it. Just Don\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it was a tasty dish.<\/p>\n<p>(The same can be said for canned bamboo shoots, regardless of brand.)<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, if you can make a case for using the godforsaken things, I\u2019d like to hear it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This message has been brought to you as a public service. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author.<\/em> \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticking with Chinese home cookin\u2019 for the Lunar new year. Read on&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=16881\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-16881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cookin","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16881"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}